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Welcome to the first week of Mighty Pen exclusively online!

1. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #55 – 57. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

2. Timeline

These are the timeline dates from last week. If you didn’t finish it from last week, this is a week to catch up.

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

• 1807 – Britain outlaws the Atlantic slave trade
• 1833 – Britain passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, ordering gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies.
• 1848 – France abolishes slavery
• 1863 – Abraham Lincoln passes Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in US
• 1865 – 13th Amendment to US constitution bans slavery
• 1888 – Brazil abolishes slavery

3. History Study

Pop some popcorn and watch the movie Amazing Grace. It’s about the abolition of slavery in England. (We were going to watch this movie together in class.)

You can rent the movie on Amazon, Google Play, or Redbox On Demand. (If you need to be reimbursed, you can submit the cost to rent the movie on the ASA website.)

4. Writing Assignment

Finish writing your story if you haven’t already. When you’re finished, email it to me at taperkey@gmail.com if you want me to read it. 🙂

Write a Cliff Hanger Story

• Choose & print one of the following “beginnings” to your story
• Write the ending to the story. Write at least two pages double spaced.
• Include both the beginning and your ending in your packet.

STORY 1: Ants in Your Pants
STORY 2: On. Off. On. Off.
STORY 3: Voices in My Rootbeer
STORY 4: Swish

5. Fiction Reading Assignment

Start reading the book King of Mulberry Street .

1. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #53 and #54. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #52 (We corrected this one in class.)

2. Timeline

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

• 1807 – Britain outlaws the Atlantic slave trade
• 1833 – Britain passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, ordering gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies.
• 1848 – France abolishes slavery
• 1863 – Abraham Lincoln passes Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in US
• 1865 – 13th Amendment to US constitution bans slavery
• 1888 – Brazil abolishes slavery

3. History Study

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

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
1807-1888

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.

4. Elegant Essay Assignment

None

5. Elegant Essay Reading

None

6. Writing Assignment

Write a Cliff Hanger Story

• Choose & print one of the following “beginnings” to your story
• Write the ending to the story. Write at least two pages double spaced.
• Include both the beginning and your ending in your packet.

STORY 1: Ants in Your Pants
STORY 2: On. Off. On. Off.
STORY 3: Voices in My Rootbeer
STORY 4: Swish

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

Get the book King of Mulberry Street – will start reading next week.

1. Prepare Inventor Presentation

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

If you didn’t give your inventor presentation yet, you will give it next week.

2. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #50 and #51. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #49 (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.

• 1810 – Independence movement begins in Mexico
• 1813 –  Simon Bolivar begins his revolutionary career in Venezuela
• 1824 – Bolivar leads Battle of Ayacucho to free Peru
• 1825 – Most of Latin America becomes independent
• 1836 – Texas declares independence from Mexico
• 1898 –  Spanish-American War
• 1898 – Cuba & Puerto Rico become protectorates of the United States

4. History Study

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

LATIN AMERICA INDEPENDENCE
1808-1826

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

Create a bubble map for the following talk. (This is your writing assignment for the week.)

“Watchful unto Prayer Continually” by Elder Bednar

You can also find this talk on pg. 31 of the Nov 2019 Ensign.

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

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

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

1. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #41 and #42. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #40 (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.

• 1769  – Napoleon Bonaparte is born
• 1804  – Napoleon named Emperor of the French Empire
• 1812 – Napoleon invades Russia
• 1814 – Napoleon is exiled to Elba (1^st time)
• 1815 – Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo
• 1821 – Napoleon dies in exile on St. Helena

4. History Study

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

NAPOLEONIC EUROPE
1799 – 1815

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.

5. Elegant Essay Assignment

None

6. Elegant Essay Reading

None

7. Writing Assignment

Create a Goofy Greeting Card related to the French Revolution.

• Choose the type of card you are creating.
• Use elements from the French Revolution to get your idea across.
• Illustrate the front of the card.
• Include words (and illustrations if you want) on the inside of the card.

NOTE: Do not just draw a picture of a card. Create an actual card (fold a paper, use different colored paper, etc.)

Click HERE and HERE to see an example.

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

None

1. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #38 and #39. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #37 (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.

• 1789 – Tennis Court Oath signed by the Third Estate
• 1789 – Storming of the Bastille & Women’s March on Versailles
• 1793 – King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette are executed
• 1793-1794 – Reign of Terror
• 1779 – Cook is killed in Hawaii
• 1794 – Robespierre executed
• 1795 – Napoleon is promoted to General of the Army of the West

4. History Study

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

FRENCH REVOLUTION
1774 – 1794

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.

5. Elegant Essay Assignment

Finish Exercise 8, pg. 45-46 (in The Elegant Essay)

6. Elegant Essay Reading

None

7. Writing Assignment

None

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

Finish reading Tale of Two Cities.

Book is due next week.

(NOTE: There are several VERY poorly formatted versions on Amazon. If you purchase on Amazon, please get this one.)

1. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #35 and #36. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #34 (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.

• 1606 – Dutch explorers reach Australia
• 1642 – Abel Tasman reaches New Zealand
• 1768 – James Cook’s First Voyage to explore the Pacific
• 1770 – James Cook claims Australia for England
• 1779 – Cook is killed in Hawaii
• 1788 – Britain begins sending convicts to Australia
• 1840 – Maori give control of New Zealand to Great Britain

4. History Study

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

EXPLORING THE PACIFIC
1606 – 1840

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.

5. Elegant Essay Assignment

None

6. Elegant Essay Reading

None

7. Writing Assignment

None

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

Continue reading Tale of Two Cities. By next class, you should be through the end of Book 2, Chapter 24.

Book is due January 31.

(NOTE: There are several VERY poorly formatted versions on Amazon. If you purchase on Amazon, please get this one.)

1. Caught’yas

Complete Caught-ya #32 and #33. After you are finished, watch the videos below for your corrections.

If you missed class …

Here is the correction for Caught-ya #31 (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.

• 1638 – King Louis XIV is born
• 1682: The French court moves to the Palace of Versailles

4. History Study

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

KING LOUIS XIV
1638 – 1715

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.

5. Elegant Essay Assignment

Write a paragraph with good transitions using the sentences from Exercise 5, pg 32.

These are the same sentences we re-ordered in class.

Remember, there not one “right” way to put the sentences together. Your job is to make them all flow and make sense, using transitions to move from one sentence to the next.

6. Elegant Essay Reading

Read Chapter 5, pgs. 35 – 39.

7. Writing Assignment

None

8. Fiction Reading Assignment

Start reading Tale of Two Cities

(NOTE: There are several VERY poorly formatted versions on Amazon. If you purchase on Amazon, please get this one.)

1. Prepare for Fiction Reading

Next semester in January, we will be reading Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Because this book can be hard to understand, your assignment is to watch the movie OR read the simplified Illustrated Classic version of the book over Christmas break.

Watching or reading will help you understand the plot as you read the book.

You may watch any of the following.

NOTE: I have NOT previewed all of these and can not vouch for all of the content.

Watch on YouTube – 1980s Version

1980 BBC Version (TV-14) – Amazon Prime

Animated Version – Amazon Prime

1935 Version – Rent on Amazon – $2.99

OR READ the Great Illustrated Classic version

2. Fiction Reading (Optional)

Once you’ve watched or read, you can begin reading Tale of Two Cities. This book will be due at the end of January.

NOTE: There are several VERY poorly formatted versions on Amazon. If you purchase on Amazon, please get this one.