EXAM

Unit 4 Exam on Nov. 21 for grey day and Nov. 24 for blue day.
Filling out the review sheet will be a grade.

Unit 4 Exam Review Sheet


Read over Ch. 4 & 5 in the text book


Things to review:

Cortez taking over the Aztec Empire, how did he do it, when, why?






Know story of LaSalle- review it from the text book.






Basics of the Columbus voyages






Spanish in the New World including Texas





French in the New World including Texas






English in the New World-original 13 colonies

HOMEWORK

Students created a foldable in class. They are to fill it out using P. 130-133 from their text book. When done it is to be glued into P. 31 in their spiral. Due Nov. 17/18.

HOMEWORK

on P. 29 of the social studies spiral, students should write pretending they are Cabeza de Vaca. Students should write a journal entry explaining a day in Cabeza de Vaca's life in Texas during the time he was here. Assignment should be 1/2 to 1 page long. Due Nov. 13/14.

ASSIGNMENT

Students will create a simple poster showing the two perspective of Christopher Columbus. First as a hero and all of the great things that happened due to his exploration, and secondly as a villain who should be held responsible for the terrible things that happened to the Native Americans.

Keep this assignment simple, no fancy poster boards required, just some simple info found from the internet.

Due Nov. 7/10

ELECTION NIGHT

CNN Electoral Map

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/calculator/

click on: blank slate and keep track as the results come in