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February 22, 2010
February 22, 2010
History, Chapter 14
Read Sections 14.3, 4 by 2/22.
Study Guide Essential Questions are due 2/24.
Timeline is due 2/25.
West African Passport Project
Focus: Each student will complete a passport for this West African study unit. The project will include the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
This project is worth 20 points, and is due March 4, 2010.
1. Your passport will need a green cover.
2. Your name, birthdate and address will go under a picture of you; if you do not have a picture, Ms. Conley will take one of you with signed family permission consent. (Please authorize and sign below.)
3. All pages must be written neatly, printed or typed.
4. List the name of each empire on separate pages.
5. Write the approximate date of each empire’s beginning and its location.
6. State the empire’s major economic resources.
7. Write a brief summary of the leader of the empire at this time.
8. Include a map, printed or drawn.
9. Look for ways how human and the geographic boundaries and features changed with each leader.
Ask questions! This is an individual project, but you may work together with your classmates in answering/researching questions. You will have some time to work on this project in class, but you must complete it on your own by the due date.
Materials: Colored construction paper, scissors, stapler, map pencils (colored pencils are fine); markers; crayons; rulers; picture of you; maps of ancient empires of Africa.
Spelling and Vocabulary
1. subjugate -to bring under control and governance as a subject (conquer); to make submissive (subdue)
2. procession -a group of individuals moving along in an orderly often ceremonial way
3. encounter -to meet as an adversary or enemy; to engage in conflict with; to come upon face-to-face; to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly
4. reveille -a signal to get up mornings; a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day
5. impact -to fix firmly by or as if by packing or wedging; to press together; to have a direct effect or impact on : impinge on; to strike forcefully
6. corrugate -to form or shape into wrinkles or folds or into alternating ridges and grooves
7. reverberate -to become driven back; to become reflected; to continue in or as if in a series of echoes (resound)
8. contentious -likely to cause contention (a contentious argument); exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes (a man of a most contentious nature)
9. convulsion -an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles
10. alacrity -promptness in response : cheerful readiness (accepted the invitation with alacrity)
11. exclude -to prevent or restrict the entrance of; to bar from participation, consideration, or inclusion
12. assail -to attack violently with blows or words
13. dissipate -to cause to spread thin or scatter and gradually vanish
14. griots -any of a class of musician-entertainers of western Africa whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies; poets-musicians
15. illustrious -notably or brilliantly outstanding because of dignity or achievements or actions
Writing Fiction, a Short Story Assignment:
Create character(s) in your own short story! In thinking about this assignment, make sure to think about what point of view you want this piece to be told from; what is/are the setting(s)? What is the conflict? Is there a resolution—what ending does this story have? Be sure to title your work. The length may be 1-2 pages, so use the most descriptive words and edit, edit, edit along the way!
Your short story narrative will be graded according to the rubric on the back page, for a total of 30 points. Please attach this page to the front of your title page.
The character and setting descriptions are due Monday, February 22.
The first draft is due Tuesday, February 23.
Peer edit is due Wednesday, February 24.
The final draft is due Friday, February 26.
Newspaper Article Review:
Read and review newspaper articles daily; write a review twice a week for 5 points due weekly on Tuesday and Thursday.
List the author, audience, location, as well as illustration and caption, if any.
Diagram one sentence with subject, verb (action, helping, linking, being verbs), and pronouns.
Summarize the article (this can be one or more sentences.)
Write a letter to the editor, with your positive or negative review.
Be ready to discuss your article in class.
Posted by ValerieC at February 22, 2010 04:25 PM