Week 17 Homework 2-13-20

1. Inventor Report & Presentation Signup

CLICK HERE to sign up for the inventor that you will write your report and give your presentation on.

NOTE: Only one student may sign up for each inventor.

• Sign up for an inventor above
• Research your inventor using the Biography Fact-Gathering Worksheet handed out in class
• Write a biography report using some of the facts you gathered. Try to include an introduction, a thesis, a body paragraph, and a conclusion. (This will be your first time pulling it all together, so it will probably feel hard. That’s okay. Just do your best.)
• Use the Descriptive Essay Grading Sheet to check your paper. (Handed out in class and also on p. 138 in your workbook.)

Your report will be due next time we come to class – February 27.

• Use the notes you took in class to brainstorm and structure your essay!
  • Research & fill out brainstorming guide
  • Create a thesis “bucket”
  • Find 3 distinct topics
  • Find an example (or 2) for each topic
  • Write a thesis statement that pulls all three topics together
  • Write your three body paragraphs
  • Write your introduction (thesis is the last sentence)
  • Write your conclusion
    
• Use the brainstorming guide handed out in class to guide your research.
• Use pg. 38-39 if you need help writing an Introduction.
• Use pg. 50-51 if you need help writing a Conclusion.
• Use pg. 10 and pg. 110 if you need help writing a Thesis.
• Use the checklist handed out in class to make sure you have all the pieces.

Presentation will be due March 5.

(More details on the presentation will be given in our next class, but the format will be similar to the presentation last semester – 5 minutes, engaging, etc.)

2. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #44 and #45. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #43 (We corrected this one in class.)

3. Timeline

1. Add the following key dates to your timeline.
2. Add ONE additional date that you find during your History Study.

• 1712 – Steam Engine invented
• 1764 – Spinning Jenny invented
• 1781 – Watt improves steam Engine
• 1789 – Samuel Slater secretly brings British industrial ideas to America
• 1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
• 1844 – Morse opens successful single telegraph line
• 1855 – Bessemer process for extracting steel discovered
• 1859 – Lenoir makes successful internal combustion engine
• 1869 – Transcontinental railroad completed in America
• 1879 – Edison invents light bulb
• 1901 – Modern assembly line is introduced
• 1903 – Wright Brothers fly first airplane
• 1908 – Henry Ford begins production of Model T

4. History Study

1. Spend 60+ minutes researching researching the following topic during this time period.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
1760 – 1910

1. Spend at least 15 minutes studying in your History Survey text.
   
2. Spend at least 45 additional minutes studying any resource focused on this time period (YouTube, documentary, picture book, magazine, etc.).
   
   CLICK HERE for a YouTube list of possible videos.
   ( NOTE: I have not previewed all of these videos and can not vouch for all of the content.)
   
3. As you study, fill out your Time Period Study worksheet.
   
   You must add information about at least one Key Person, one Key Event, and several Interesting Facts. If you want to do more, fill out more that one worksheet.

6. Elegant Essay Assignment

None

6. Elegant Essay Reading

None

7. Writing Assignment

None

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

None