Bubonic Plague

Activities

1. Create a poster advertising ways of avoiding the plague.
Use color and remember not to use any words about germs – they didn’t know about them. 

2.You are a visitor to London in 1348 – write home describing the city just before the plague. Then write home asking for help – you are stuck in London at the start of the plague, what can you do to protect yourself? Should you go home?
 

APA examples for final draft

Like Black Smoke

Factual Claim, Opinion and Common Place Assertion

Using Quotations

http://writingcenter.appstate.edu/sites/writingcenter.appstate.edu/files/Quotations%20handout13.pdf

Italics

Italics and underlines are useful forms of punctuation for emphasis and setting certain groups of words apart from others. In this lesson, you will learn why and how these features help your writing.

Italicizing and Underlining are interchangeable in use. Before typewriters and computers, writing was done by hand, so italicizing words was difficult, if not impossible. Therefore, underlining was used to emphasize words.Technology now allows us to use one or the other as we please.

Grammar and usage dictates when we should use italics and underlining and when we shouldn't. Here are key areas you will find them in writing.

Rule 1: Italicize or underline the titles of long written works, such as books, magazines, movies, TV shows, newspapers, plays, musicals, and albums or CDs.

Gary Paulsen's novelHatchet	Gary Paulsen's novelHatchet
The New York Times	The New York Times
Shakespeare's playRomeo and Juliet	Shakespeare's playRomeo and Juliet
the Broadway hit A Chorus Line	the Broadway hit A Chorus Line

Tip

Be consistent! Don't italicize one title and underline the next one. Pick one style and then stick to it.

Exception: Do not underline or italicize the titles of holy books, such as the Bible, the Tanakh, or the Koran. The names of chapters or books within these works are also not underlined or italicized: I Corinthians, Genesis, Yusuf.

Tip

Use quotation marks around the titles of stories, songs, short poems, articles, and other smaller-sized works.

Aesop's fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (short story)

Francis Scott Key's "The Star Spangled Banner" (song)

Shel Silverstein's "Sick" (short poem)

"Making Recycling Really Pay" (article)

Rule 2: Italicize or underline foreign words.

Madame Kondoleon greeted the class by saying bonjour!

Madame Kondoleon greeted the class by saying bonjour!

Senora Reyes shared the platano with her class.

Senora Reyes shared the platano with her class.

Note, however, that many foreign words have become part of the English language,and need not be italicized; for example, hacienda, kibitz, and taco.(When in doubt, check your dictionary.)

Rule 3: Italicize or underline words you want to emphasize.

When we speak, our tone of voice can emphasize words and imply meaning.

When we write, we can use italics or underlines to do the same thing.

Can you tell the difference in the meanings of these four sentences?

Jane was overjoyed.	[Okay, Jane was overjoyed.]
Jane was overjoyed.	[It wasn't anyone; it wasJane who was overjoyed.]
Jane wasoverjoyed.	[Jane's no longer overjoyed.]
Jane wasoverjoyed	[Jane wasn't just happy, she was overjoyed.]

Rule 4: Italicize onomatopoeia (sound words).

Brrrr! It's freezing out here. Let's get inside where it's warm.

Clink! Clank! Carefully trying to make it from the dining room to the kitchen with the stack of dishes, Olivia tripped on the bump in the rug and the mountain of dirty dishes fell—crash!—to the floor.

http://www.education.com/study-help/article/italicizing-underlining/

Sharks

Persuasive Essays

APA

Include parenthetical citations. Include the author and year of publication in parenthesis after paraphrased text---for example (Coleman, 1997). If you include the author's name in the sentence, add the year of publication in parenthesis after the name---for example, "As Coleman (1997) argued... ." Follow the parenthetical citation with end punctuation for a sentence, usually a period.

Persuasive Essay

Fredericksburg Battlefield

Write a history-related writing, as if you were a soldier or a nurse in Fredericksburg. Describe the setting.

Clara Barton

Short Response questions
1. What is Captain Neal´s opinion of Ms. Barton?
2. How does Clara obtain her supply?
3. What did Ms. Barton do before the war? (work wise)
4. Why does Captain Neil reprimand Brown?
5. Who is Mrs. Fales? How does she meet Clara?
6. Who are the Grey coats?
7. Why is Captain Neal upset at Clara? How does she justify it?
8. What does the telegram say?
9.What event causes Captain Neal to change his opinion about Ms. Barton?

A Noble Experiment Questions

Obj: Analyze and review the story.

1) What was the situation in baseball like in 1940?
2) Who is Branch Ricky?
3) Who is Charley Thomas?
4) Why couldn't Charley Thomas sleep at night?
5) What were the qualities of a "Ricky's Noble Experiment" man?
6)What is the Jim Crow section?
7) Describe the exposition of the story.
8) Describe the conflict of the story.

9)What did Branch Ricky mean when he told Jackie he would have to have the courage to ¨not fight back¨? How can refusing to engage a fight be an example of courage?
10) what Negro League Team did Jackie Robinson play for?
11) what was Wendell Smith P.O.V. on Ricky Branch and Robinson?
12) What was the conversation between Sukeforth and Robinson about?
13) Describe Branch Ricky.
14)What does Ricky mean when he said to Robinson, ¨There are times when a man needs a woman by his side.¨
15) What did Ricky mean by,¨the baseball box score is a democratic thing.¨

Jackie Robinson

Write a paragraph about Jackie Robinson using at least 7 of the 10 vocabulary words.

Persuasive Essay

Lance Armstrong

Tour de France

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7wPa1Hl5ZA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWER1G4OOQk

20,038 views!!!!

From our 7th grade classroom to the world. 7C and 7D content has extended from Panama to United States, Canada, China, Pakistan, India, New Zealand, Philippine, Argentina and France.

(7C made me post this....) 

Haiti and Dominican Republican

Great videos we forgot to post

Eleanor Roosevelt Wrap-up Questions

1. What did E.R. learn from Mademoiselle Souvestre?
2. Analyze the meaning behind this quote about Theodore Roosevelt, stating he must be..."the bride at ever wedding and the corpse at every funeral."
3. What did E.R. do in 1917 when the U.S. entered W.W.I.?
4. Why was it said E.R. was the link between the president and the American public?
5. Why was E.R. considered F.D.R.'s eyes and ears?
6. What did Clare Boothe Luce and Adlai Stevenson comment on E.R.?
7. Write a paragraph describing Ms. Anderson using 6 vocabulary words.

Capitalization

Capitalization Worksheet

The following provides you with ten sentences with no capital letters at all. Identify which letters should be capitalized.

1. i visitied mr. smith, the chairman of the board, on september 10.
2. president smith gave a speech in which he said "resigning is not an option."
3. may i visit the oval office, president?
4. he loved the book, which was called "a day in france."
5. the federal bureau of investigations (f.b.i.) looks into crimes, and the bureau also protects america.
6. i am originally from the south but now i live in the north. 
7. my courses this semester include english, science, and math 100. 
8. the state board collects state and federal taxes. 
9. september and october are the prettiest months of autumn. 
10. the book, "the big red dog" is a hit among children: they enjoy reading about the dogs adventures.

Eleanor Roosevelt

FDR Brings a New Deal

 

Read the following article on FDR Brings a New Deal and answer the 10 questions below. Each response is worth 10 points.

With unemployment nearly 25%, 5500 banks closed, farmers threatened with losing their land, soup kitchens and cities, and many factories closed, millions of Americans anxiously waited to see what Franklin D Roosevelt (usually referred to as FDR) would do. When he accepted the Democratic nomination, he pledged himself to a "New Deal" for the American people. The phrase had stuck, and now the nation wanted to know what kind of a new deal he would give them.

In his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, FDR expressed confidence that "this great Nation will endure as it has endured," and “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He asked for emergency powers to defeat the Depression, just as if it were an enemy country that had invaded the United States. With a Cabinet consisting of Democrats, two Republicans, and one woman (Frances Perkins), he acted swiftly to solve different problems. His first move was to close all banks until their records could be examined, and then the weak banks were closed permanently. This would restore public confidence in banks. He used his first "fireside chat" to assure the people that their money would be safe when the bank reopened. It worked, and when banks opened, people walked in to deposit and not withdraw money.

During his first hundred and four days in office, FDR asked Congress for 15 pieces of legislation and got all of them. These created many new agencies, usually known by their alphabet name. The new agencies hired new employees, and supervisors used roller skates to move around over huge new offices.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) went to work on the farm problem. Under Henry Wallace, it paid farmers to take land out of production. Since the 1933 crop was in the ground, it had to be destroyed. To raise pork prices, thousands of pigs were killed; their bodies were ground up and buried. For city dwellers, all of this meant higher prices at a time when they could not afford it. But other New Deal programs were also at work.

To help states with relief projects, the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) gave grants of $500 million, but the idea of giving people money they hadn't earned was not nearly as popular as giving them jobs so they could earn the money. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) employed about 300,000 young men; they were paid $30 a month ($25 of that was sent to their families), given room and board, lived in military barracks, and worked at conservation projects. Public Works Administration (PWA) was another program to hire the unemployed, but it moved so slowly that it was replaced by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in November 1933, and Works Progress Administration (WPA) replaced it in 1935.

The National Recovery Act (NRA) was created to encourage business growth. An industry (like steel or petroleum) was to draw up codes of fair competition, which included how much they would charge. This was to prevent cutthroat competition. Codes also set wages at no less than $.30 an hour, abolished child labor, and required businesses to deal with labor unions. A business abiding by the code could display a "blue eagle" on its products.

Results: the New Deal was a turning point in history, as the government began to regulate and involve itself in the economy. At first, the public was nearly 100% behind the changes; but in time, critics raised questions.

Questions

1. When was the phrase "New Deal" first used by FDR?
   
   
2. What famous statement was included in his inaugural address?
   
   
3. How many banks were closed when FDR came into office? Why did he close the rest?
   
   
4. How did the public react when banks reopened?
   
   
5. How did the AAA effect city dwellers?
   
   
6. How much money did a CCC worker get to keep for himself?
   
   
7. Name three other work programs besides the CCC.
   
   
8. Under NRA codes, what was the least amount of money a worker could be paid per hour?
   
   
9. What part of NRA codes appeal to business?
   
   
10. Why would a union leader like NRA codes?

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