April Vacation Homework

**Sorry everyone, I posted this assignment to period 2's blog instead of yours!**

Over vacation, please work on the R.A.F.T. writing assignment, linked HERE

Remember, you must have a ROLE, a AUDIENCE, a FORMAT, and a TOPIC (one from each of the columns).

Homework 4/15

Read Section 11.4 - Answer question #3 on your blog.

Homework 4/14

Homework for Monday: Read the packet "Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia" by Carlton McCarthy.  At the end of the packet there are three questions - answer the questions on your blog!  (remember to support your answer with evidence from the text!)

Homework from the weekend - using the roughdraft review from class on Friday, write a review on Touchcast and submit it to the appstore.  Make sure you are using proper grammar and that your spelling is correct!

To get to the view page, go to the app's download page (like if you were searching for the app and you were going to download it).  Click on 'Ratings and Reviews' and then 'write a review'.  Write your review and before you officially post your review, take a screen shot.  Then, post your screen shot to your blog as an image.

Homework 3/31

Using the excerpt below, fill in your Civil War Differences Chart - DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE BOXES THAT ARE GREY

Numbers tell an important story about the Civil War. Consider the North’s advantages. It could draw soldiers and workers from a population of 22 million, compared with the South’s 5.5 million. One of its greatest advantages was its network of roads, canals, and railroads. Some 22,000 miles of railroad track cold move soldiers and supplies throughout the North. The South had only about 9,000 miles of track. . . .

The Confederacy had advantages as well. With its strong military tradition, the South put many

brilliant officers into battle. Southern farms provided food for its armies. The South’s best advantage, however, was strategic. It needed only to defend itself until the North grew tired of fighting. Southern soldiers fought mostly on their home soil, while the North had to occupy [move in and control] large areas of enemy territory.”

Source: William Deverell and Deborah Gray White, United States History: Independence to 1914, California Edition (Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2006), pp. 474-5.

Homework 3/21

Watch the following video: Dred Scott Video

Answer the following questions on your blog:

• What was Dred Scott's argument for why he and his wife should be free? 
• What was the Supreme Court's decision? 
• How did many Northerners react to the decision?  Why?  

Homework for 3/18

No class tomorrow - Booooo! 

Until we meet again (Thursday) please read the 3 documents you were given in class today (either John Brown OR Nat Turner) 

Remember to read like historians - what questions are you thinking about as you read? Who wrote the document (what is their job? What connection do they have to the subject?) when was the documents written (what was going on at that time?) 

Homework 3/17

Step 1:  Watch the crashcourse video below:

Step 2:  Post the following on your blog - 

• 3 things from the video that you ALREADY knew 
• 2 things from the video that you LEARNED by watching it
• 1 thing that you WONDER about the topic discussed (if you don't wonder anything, what is something that you think someone might wonder).