Monday, April 9, 2012

Revolution games- Check these out??!!! Let me know what you think??!!!

american/revolution


glorious/revolution


french/revolution


Imperialism africa 



New Vocab Words- CHECK 'EM OUT!

Simon Bolivar
Napoleon Bonaparte
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Robert Fulton
Karl Marx
Absolute monarch
socialism
strike
imperalism
revolution
textiles
nationalism
artsticracy
union

Typing Exploration paper in Lab Due tomorrow!-

We have been working on our 5 paragraph paper finalizing our Exploration Unit.

1- Inventions in the 1500's that led to exploration
2- Gold, God, and Glory
3- European dominace and the slaughtering of cultures
4- Personal reflections if aliens can and dominated the world
5- future of exploration


When you are done- PLEASE SEARCH FOR CURRENT EVENTS!!!!

or you can check out our next unit-


HEADS UP- WE WILL BE LEARNING ABOUT REVOLUTIONS (WHICH MEANS WAR) IF ANY VIDEO MAKES YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHANGE THAT VIDEO! EVEN A MAN-MADE VIDEO ABOUT WAR CAN MAKE US FEEL WEIRD!

industrial-revolution

french-revolution

american-revolution

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

1st paragraph write as class- review vocab- play games

           During the Renassiance there were lots of inventions that helped the Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration was from 1500-1700. I will be informing you about one of the inventions called the caravel. This was a new type of ship that had triangle sails and a large wooden body. This ship could sail in any direction! Without this new type of ship the explorers couldn;t of circumnavigated the world!


Each paragraph is 100 points. An A paper will be typed up- If you hand-write and copy my paper off the board, you will earn a C.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Turn in Portuguese FunSheet- We've been taking notes from a powerpoint on each presentation

Each student should be keeping notes from the presentations.

15 or more = A
10- 14= B
5-9 = C
below 5 see me

We will be turning these notes into a Research Paper as our Final project.

I will be grading them in our notebooks when we turn them in!

Be keeping good notes!!!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Rest of the Vocab 11-20... Spanish Exploration FunSheet- Creative Time

Conquistadors- expedition leaders sent by the Spanish government to the New World who ended up conquering the native people like: Aztecs, Incas,

Hispanola- islands in the Caribbean known today as Haiti and the Dominica Republic. Columbus set foot on these islands 1493

Hacienda- slave house for the native Indians- forced to farm and give up their way of life- religion

Bartolome de las Casas- a famous priest that wrote against the enslavement of native Indians

Spanish Armada- famous navy battle between Spain and England in 1588- fought over GOLD, GOD, AND GLORY

penal colony- USA and Australia - a place where governments send their criminals to get them away

Triangle Trade- the 317 year trading process for manufactured goods for Africans. Sugar grown in the Caribbean by slaves, traded for guns in Europe, to trade guns for  more slaves in Africa.

Middle Passage-  the 3 month passage from Africa to the New World. They were chained sitting or laying down.

indentured servants- Europeans who choose to become a servant for a boat ride to the New World. Usually lasted 7-8 years.