World History

World History Students
Your assignment for Monday September 27th is to read Chapter 4, section 1 in your textbooks. It is entitled "The Empires of Egypt and Nubia Collide." You need to answer the following questions on a Pages document and turn it in at the beginning of class on Tuesday. You are allowed to use earbuds to listen to music while you work. Happy studying.

Questions

1. Who were the Hyskos?

2. Who was the powerful female ruler of the New Kingdom in Egypt? What kinds of things did she do during her reign?

3. Describe the relationship between the Egyptians and the Hittites.

4. Where did the term "Pharaoh" come from? What does it mean?

5. Describe the Valley of the Kings.

6. Who are the "People of the Sea?" What did they do?

7. What was it that caused the Egyptian Empire to lose power?

8. How did the Kushite Dynasty come to power?

9. Describe how Nubian and Egyptian cultures mixed.

10. Who became Egypt's 25th Dynasty? How did they accomplish that?

World Geography Students

Your assignment for Monday September 27th, 2010 is to begin writing your culture study papers. It needs to be at least 2 pages (double spaced, size 12 font, and Times New Roman style text) and must contain at least 5 aspects of culture from the group that you studied. It will be due Wednesday when you come to class. You will not have time to work on it Tuesday in class. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation will be graded in this paper. Remember, an anthropologist needs to not judge the culture they are observing. Happy studying.

World History

World History Students,
The 10 Commandments were a very important part of life in Jewish culture. It was part of a standard that the Hebrew people lived by. Below I have listed a link to a website where you can a play game trying to name the 10 Commandments. Give it a try and see how long it takes you to get them all correct. Have fun learning about an ancient religion that influenced the world. Keep trying until you've got them all down.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/commandments.php

U.S. History

U.S. History Students,
After you finish your quiz, check out the links below and play the games on the U.S. Constitution. Your homework for tomorrow is to look over the Constitution in your textbook and get familiar with it.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Bartleby/amendments

http://www.sporcle.com/games/text/uspreamble

Play the ones above until you have a good grasp of them. After that, you are free to play other quizzes on www.sporcle.com, however, they need to be U.S. History quizzes. Have fun and learn something.

World History

World History Students,
Your task is to download the table from the class bulletin board on the server and research Hinduism and Buddhism. The corresponding text in your book is Chapter 3 Section 2 which starts on page 62. Many people throughout the world belong to these two religions, it is important to understand their religion so we can better comprehend them as fellow human beings. Whether you belong to a religion or not, it's important to know where other people are coming from.

You need a few sentences for each box. Feel free to work with a partner or in a group of 3. It will be due in class tomorrow. Happy studying.

1st Hour Geography Students

Since we have the NHS meeting instead of class, you need to export your podcast or video to iTunes and put it in the dropbox for this class by using the server. If you don't know how to do that, ask me or someone else how. It needs to be in the dropbox before lunch time today (September 20th, 2010)

Your homework for tomorrow is to read Chapter 4, section 1 in your Geography textbook. There will be a quiz. It may or may not be open book. 

United States History

U.S History Students,

Your mission is to research major battles of the American Revolution. I have written out below, some guidelines for you to follow. This is a chance for you to explore the material and check out the battles that you want to check out at your own pace. Have some fun learning about the war. For each battle, you should list the Commanders, which side won, and the importance of the battle in context of the entire war. Copy and paste the following guidelines into a pages document and start researching. 

Here is a great website to use in your research:  http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battles.aspx

Year: 1775

Battle 1: Lexington and Concord

Battle 2:

Battle 3:

Battle 4:

Year: 1776

Battle 1:

Battle 2:

Battle 3:

Year : 1777

Battle 1:

Battle 2:

Battle 3:

Battle 4:

Battle 5:

Year 1778-1781

Battle 1:

Battle 2:

Battle 3:

Battle 4: Yorktown