Week 18 Homework 2-27-20

NOTE: Here’s the list of the list of village/city elements from our activity in class last week.

1. Prepare Inventor Presentation

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.

Presentation is be due March 5.

• You must do a different kind of presentation than the one you did last time.
• Your presentation cannot be longer than 5 minuetes.
• Make your presentation interesting & engaging. Don’t be boring 🙂

2. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #47 and #48. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #46 (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.

• 1815 – British declare formal control of Cape Colony and increase British immigration to South Africa.
• 1818 – Shaka, the Zulu chief, unifies Nguni peoples and fights against neighboring black Africans and white Europeans throughout southern Africa.
• 1853 – Commodore Perry opens up Japanese ports
• 1857 – Sepoy Massacre in India
• 1870 – Europeans begin to take control of all Africa countries
• 1876 – Queen Victoria is named Empress of India
• 1882 – British take over Egypt
• 1884 – Berlin Conference begins as European countries continue to argue over Africa
• 1896 – Ethiopians successfully resist European conquest
• 1899 – Boer War begins in South Africa

4. History Study

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

19th CENTURY IMPERIALISM
1870-1914

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

Color-code pg. 80-81 like we did in class.

• Red – Introduction
• Yellow – Thesis Statement
• Blue – Body Paragraphs
  • Place a star next to the topic sentence of each body paragraph
  • Put brackets around the examples in each body paragraph
• Green – Conclusion

6. Elegant Essay Reading

None

7. Writing Assignment

None

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

Get the book King of Mulberry Street – will start reading in a few weeks