First Continental Congress, Battle of Lexington and Concord

Hi Class,

Here is the video clip that we watched today as an introduction to the days topic. I will try and add the updated PowerPoint later tonight:

The Boston Massacre and Tea Party

Hi Class,

Today we are covering the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. To get us started, view the image on this webiste: http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/enlargement.html

Updated PowerPoint

The Townshend Acts

Today in class we reviewed the Sugar Act, Quartering Act, and Stamp Act. After the review, we worked on an assignment that was meant to relate to how we might feel if some of our rights were taken away!! Some of you were indifferent, while others were ready to take up arms!

We looked at a new act that was introduced by the British. The Townshend Acts. The powerpoint on the American Revolution has been updated and includes the new slides on this topic. Check out last days post for the link to the .ppt.

Your homework today is to finish the row on the chart on the Townshend Act. Set up your with the following headings:

Events Leading to the American Revolution

Event	Year	What happened?	Reaction
Royal Proclamation
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts

American Revolution PowerPoint

Hi Class,

Here is the link to the power point for the American Revolution and here is the link for the .ppt on the Battle of Quebec.

Here is the video that summarized today's lesson:

I will up load the videos shortly and the notes from the 1st class!!

Ms. U

May 10th, 2012

Here is the agenda for the day:

• Hand in your newspaper assignment
• Review workbook from last day (French Revolution)
• Finish FR Rev PPT
• Marat, Danton, Robespierre Worksheet

French revolution newspaper

Hi class,

The French reolution newspaper is due on May 11. We will have one more class in the library on the 9th.

Ms. U

The French Revolution powerpoint

Hi Everyone,

Here is the link to the powerpoint presentation that we have covered so far:

French Revolution

Hi Everyone,

Here is the agenda for the day:

• Introduction:
• We will watch the following video to get us started:

• Review of content from last day:
• Causes of the French Revolution 1 & 2
• French Revolution PowerPoint presentation
• Activities:
• Begin Tennis Court Oath Assignment

Oliver Twist

Hi Class,

Here is the agenda for the day:

• Hand in the Life in Cities Cartoon Analysis Questions
• Review pg. 156 # & pg. 127 #3
• Watch Oliver Twist
• While watching, make note of different events in the plot.
• You will use these events to write 3 journal entries from the perspective of Oliver.
• Start your Chapter 5 review - This is due on April 3rd and is out of 70 marks.

Welcome back!!

Hi Everyone,

I hope that you all had a fantastic spring break! Mine was great... I was in Europe on the Chef's trip and we got to see a lot!!!

Here is the plan for today:

• Review - Pre-industrial Revolution Social Structure (pg. 25 in Crossroads)
• How did society change during/as a result of the Industrial Revolution
• Read pg. 150-151
• Answer #1 on pg. 156
• Oliver Twist - Improv of abridged version on p. 124 - 127 of the text.
• Answer #3 on pg. 127 (to be completed for homework)

Social structure in pre-Industrial Revolution Britain

Today in class we worked on some questions that will help us understand what life was like for families in pre-Industrial Revolution Britain. We used our textbook on pg. 25 and were answering all of the questions on that page. YES we are doing some simple mathematical calculations in Social Studies class! Sometimes there is overlap between subjects!!!! By doing the math, we will have data that we can analyze and think critically about what the data suggests. We can look at what life might have been like for the lower, middle, and upper social classes.

Life in Cities Assignment

Hi Class,


Here is the information you need to complete the questions on the blue work sheet.


SOURCE 1

Punch Magazine, c1850

• What does it show?
• What is the message of this picture?
• Skeleton's don't 'dispense' water. Therefore the source is useless to a historian of mid 1800s city life. Do you agree?

SOURCE 2
During the first decades of Victoria's reign, baths were virtually unknown in the poorer districts and uncommon anywhere. Most households of all economic classes still used "privy-pails"; water closets were rare. Sewers had flat bottoms, and because drains were made out of stone, seepage was considerable. If, as was often the case in towns, streets were unpaved, they might remain ankle-deep in mud for weeks.

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html

• Give three threats to health, as mentioned in the source.

SOURCE 3

Punch Magazine, 1852

• How can you tell that this 'court' is a very unhealthy place?
• Do you think that this cartoon is likely to be reliable? Explain your answer.

SOURCE 4

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. As we passed along the reeking banks of the sewer the sun shone upon a narrow slip of the water. In the bright light it appeared the colour of strong green tea, and positively looked as solid as black marble in the shadow - indeed it was more like watery mud than muddy water; and yet we were assured this was the only water the wretched inhabitants had to drink. 

As we gazed in horror at it, we saw drains and sewers emptying their filthy contents into it; we saw a whole tier of doorless privies in the open road, common to men and women, built over it; we heard bucket after bucket of filth splash into it, and the limbs of the vagrant boys bathing in it seemed by pure force of contrast, white as Parian marble. 

In this wretched place we were taken to a house where an infant lay dead of the cholera. We asked if they really did drink the water? The answer was, "They were obliged to drink the ditch, without they could beg or thieve a pailful of water." But have you spoken to your landlord about having it laid on for you? "Yes, sir and he says he will do it, and do it, but we know him better than to believe him." - Henry Mayhew, Morning Chronicle (24th September 1849) 

• Do Henry Mayhew's comments back up the views of the cartoonist in Source 3?

SOURCE 5

• Dirty water certainly was the main cause of disease in the 1800s. Do you agree? Explain with refernce to any sources you wish and your own knowledge.

Anti-Bullying Day

Today is anti-bullying day! How can you raise awareness around this cause??

Industrial Revolution

Hi Class,

Today we worked on a paragraph in class on working conditions for children. 

Child Labourers

We also reviewed most of the content that we have covered so far in a PowerPoint presentation. In the remaining time in class you completed the word search in your handout on the cottage system vs. the factory system.

HOMEWORK - Read pg. 149 - 150; do #2 & 4 on pg. 150.

FYI - Your Industrial Revolution unit test will be on March 8th.

Cromwell is a Villain!!!

As a class today, you decided unanimously that Oliver Cromwell is a VILLAIN!!!!

Causes of the Civil War Video

Here is a video clip that explains the causes of the English Civil War:

Oliver Cromwell: Hero or Villain??

Hey Class,

Today we reviewed some of the material we already covered before the winter break. Key things to remember are the Grand Remonstrance and also the effect of the failure of England as a republic. You should definitely be able to explain what a constitutional monarchy is too.

DUE NEXT CLASS: The worksheet on whether or not Oliver Cromwell was a hero or a villain.  What do you think?

UNIT TEST = JAN 13