PERIOD D 6TH GRADE S.S. Assignments

After reading the attached document check the Yes box. If you check it and don't read the document, you will almost definitely do a bad job on the last assignment that will be posted Friday morning 6/5

This assignment is on the Constitution that took the place of the Articles of Confederation. By 1787 The FOUNDERS, [the men who founded the country by signing the Declaration of Independence are called FOUNDERS] called for a Constitutional Convention to change the Articles to make a more perfect union. They soon decided that a whole new Constitution had to be created. They started to create and frame, [that is why we call the men who wrote the Constitution FRAMERS], a new type of government that had not been tried since the Roman Republic. They were creating a type of government, called a REPUBLIC, that had not been used for over a thousand years. A republic is a state in which the supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and must have an ELECTED, [ BY THE PEOPLE ] president or leader rather than a monarch.[KING or QUEEN]. Every government in Europe and Asia at that time, and for a thousand years before, was a type of Monarchy run by a King or Queen determined by bloodlines. No other countries thought it could work! That is why we call our Constitution..."The Great Experiment"
FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT LISTED IN THE ATTACHED docx

Federalism is the system of government where there is shared power between the central/federal government and the states. Our constitution divides the power, but gives no rule for the amount of power to be given to each. People who believe the federal government should have more power we call FEDERALISTS..people who want the central government to have less power than the states are called ANTI-FEDERALISTS..
Here is another definition: "Federalism is a political philosophy in which a group of people are bound together, with a governing head. In federalism, the authority is divided between the head (for example the central government of a country) and the political units governed by it (for example the states or provinces of the country)".

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There is an assignment listed at the end of "The Constitution 1,docx or PDF they are the same" I will list it here:
First you have to watch the three videos listed in the DOCX/or PDF.
Then...Preamble to the Constitution
" 1.We the People of the United States, in Order to 2.form a more perfect Union, 3.establish Justice, insure 4.domestic Tranquility, provide for the 5.common defense, promote 6.the general Welfare, and secure the 7.Blessings of Liberty to 8.ourselves and our Posterity, 9.do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Our first job will be to decide what this Preamble means. Watch these three videos and then write bullets that explain EACH of the 9 important parts highlighted above.
In the document the 9 are highlighted...so you MUST read that doc./or PDF

use the form

Please complete this by the end of June 2nd

Enclosed in this assignment are the Articles of Confederation. The Articles create our first independent government after the Declaration of Independence. They were created by the Second Constitutional Congress, which became our central government, during the Revolution and a bit beyond. Your assignment is to list individually [with bullets] each article by number and tell me what it says....this should be in your own words, not copy and paste
For example:
Article 1: We are named the United States of America
Article 2: blah blah blah words words words
Article 3: If you don't understand contact me with a comment

Watch the movie and answer the questions. I can see if you have watched, there is no need to submit anything, just complete the movie and questions.
The first question has a typo.. it should be 1775!

Remember this is a participation grade..don't have to be correct..Just guess

Read the information supplied. Use the attached document to justify YOUR vote for independence. Here is what I expect from each student.
1] Find the name of a signer and tell me who he/you are [you will be him] in a short informational paragraph.
2] Explain in an informational essay why you are finally convinced to sign the document, at the risk of hanging as a traitor, using the document as your source of information.
This will be at least a three paragraph answer explaining your decision. You MUST use information from the document, not just your opinion.
Steps to succeed in the informative essay writing
1]Choose the topic for your informative essay. ... This will be Why I decided to sign!
2]Gather all the necessary information for the essay from the document and anywhere else,. BUT MUST have info from document I provided
3]The Introduction. ...
4]The Body. ...
5]The Conclusion. ...
Re read and edit your work for silly mistakes, and make sure your paper makes sense about why you signed!

This is a copy of things I spoke about during my class Meets for the 6th grade. If you missed the Meet you lost 5% of your class participation grade. It is important that you use these notes for your next assignment which I will be posting on Weds. Please use the Google Form to answer whether you looked at and studied these notes

Watch this video and write bullets, NO SLIDES, about what you learned. YOU MUST click on the word open to be able to see it. You also might click on the three dots on the upper right corner and choose open in a new window. You must use your Memorial School account. If all else fails, try using your phone.

Please watch and write notes in bullet form. Write notes separately for each. EXAMPLE
1] Story of Magna Carta...then add your bullets
2] English Bill of Rights....Then your bullets
3] Magna Carta, Eng Bill of Rights, and American Gov't ...then your bullets NO SLIDES DOC ONLY

The Intolerable Acts were punishing laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to pay back the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.Parliament replied to the "Boston Tea Party" with the five Coercive [ look that word up if you don't know its meaning] Acts of 1774. The colonists dubbed them the "Intolerable Acts." They were an important factor contributing to the American Revolution. Please list and explain what each of the five acts were and why they made colonists VERY mad.

This is how a student made it work.. what i did was i scrolled down to the bottom and there is a thing that says block, allow, and clear on exit, i clicked allow and then you put in edpuzzle and then edpuzzle should be under allow for cookies, well that's how i did it"

Read this and do it.There is a choice for every system in the program that says "get cookies enabled. Then open a doc, just like a real assignment, and tell me you understand or do not understand. The "get cookies in chrome is only for google chrome which is what we use in school on the chromebooks.

Open the timeline. We will be learning about each of the events on this timeline. You will need to start a SLIDE SHOW FOR EACH, and be able to add information as we take on each one by one after we have completed the 26 slides as an introduction.. Below you will find the timeline as well as an example of how to set this up. These will be due one at a time till the end of next week. Start with the Treaty of Paris and continue on. I will be adding information along the way. Remember two slides for each. Remember..DO NOT SIMPLY COPY FACTS WORD FOR WORD...Each day do one or more topics with TWO SLIDES EACH in chronological order..YOU MUST FOLLOW THE TIMELINE ORDER...DO NOT DO THE DECLARATION OF THE STAMP ACT AND THE VICES SECTIONS...THAT MAKES THE 13.

Look for this movie on the question I posted...Can you view it?

Which Continent Has The Most Countries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPniualq2X8
Pay particular attention to;
1] Pontiac's War 2]The Paris Peace Treaty and its terms 3]The proclamation of 1763.
Be prepared to write an opinion essay on the effect of the French and Indian War. This essay assignment will follow on Weds.Hopefully you understand that I expect your notes, in bullet form, to be on a document opened from the assignment.Your notes must be submitted..THEY ARE DUE TONIGHT 3/18

Please write a persuasive paragraph giving reasons for the British and American colonists to agree to fight the war, Use the material posted to get FACTS to support your position. Include Ben Franklin's opinion and his ideas for fighting the war. Use the "paragraph " example to understand the minimum length.

read p 71-76. Answer all checkpoints and the question 1B Separate your answers into individual sections. Write a short descriptive opinion essay on New England farming.What a New England farm was like: Include size, small or plantation size, who worked on the farm and life during the four seasons

Examine both communities and, pacing yourself in the role of a colonist wishing to leave England, make a choice based on the factors real colonists faced in 1600-1700. Chose one or the other and in a well written paragraph with well supported reasons, explain your choice!

Find a GREAT deal of information and use bullets for your research report on:
1] John Smith 2] Pocahontas 3] Chief Powhatan 4] John Rolfe

answer 3 questions
1] Where are they from? Country they sailed from.
2] Where did they explore?
3] what was the result of their exploration?

watch this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDXdMmLZGxI
For each of the sections like titles, pronouns,etc.. write your own sample sentence.
IT IS ABOUT TIME YOU KNEW WHEN TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS

Choose 5 famous people from the Renaissance and do an informational, decorative slide show . When they were born and died, where they were boen, what did the do to get famous and contribute to the Renaissance, and a picture of them.

choose two essays and answer in about a paragraph

answer question # 7 on page 633
Summaries for the movement of people and the rise of kingdoms in early medieval Europe from the 300s till the 800s, using the information from the reading in the textbook

research the Dark Ages and do a timeline of important events. Bullet each event that you find in a complete sentence

open a doc and submit answers