WITH A PARTNER:

Work with a partner and complete this Make and Break about French and English Explorers. Put the paragraphs in order in an email or go directly to your Posterous site. After each paragraph write the words that are new to you and write the clue word or words.

If there is extra time try to find photos that go along with each paragraph and paste them in.

After you’re done paste it on your Posterous website.

Then, go to The French In North America and use Book Goo.

ON YOUR OWN:

Learn about The Seven Years War. Be sure to click on “T” so you can see the words as they are spoken.

With A Partner

Use Book Goo and read about the Lost Colony.

On Your Own:

Play The Jamestown Adventure.

Go on another Jamestown Adventure.

Watch a movie on Pocahontas and take the quiz.

Watch a movie about the Salem Witch Hunt. After you’re done, watch this short movie, too. Then, please answer these questions on your Posterous site:

1) Why do you think the Salem women were called witches?

2) Why do you think people sometimes attack others who act differently?

3) Has anyone ever made fun of you, or attacked you or your family, for being or acting a little different? Why do you think they acted that way towards you?

If you get done early you can play The Midnight Messenger Game.

Watch the movie Thanksgiving and take both quizzes.

Watch this movie about Thanksgiving and take the quizzes, too.

Watch The First Thanksgiving.

Read Pilgrim Village.

Find a picture through Google of the First Thanksgiving. Paste it on your Posterous site and answer this questions:

If you were a Native American and saw the problems facing the Pilgrims, would you have helped them?  Why or why not?

WITH A PARTNER:

Go to Book Goo and read this page about early Spanish explorers. Be sure to post it on your Posterous site.

Then do these activities.

Do this activity on Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth.

Next, read this description on the California Missions using Book Goo.

ON YOUR OWN:

Go to California on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website and spend time looking at all the links related to the California Missions.

Then copy and past these this California Mission clozes on your Posterous site and complete them. On the bottom,next to each word, write write the “clue words.”

Next, do the same with this Life At The Missions cloze.

ON YOUR OWN:

Watch these movies on Christopher Columbus:

Columbus Day. Take the test, too.

Christopher Columbus’ Big Surprise

Famous People (Click on Christopher Columbus)

Watch this short movie showing Columbus sighting land:

Write on your Posterous site how you felt when you first entered the United States.  If you were too young to remember, please ask your parents how they felt and write what they say.
WITH A PARTNER

Use Book Goo to read Europeans Arrive.

Open up the Christopher Columbus Data Set.

Copy and paste the categories in an email that you each will send to your Posterous site.

Then, with your partner, write a one sentence summary for each category. Once you have four sentences (one for each category) go find a picture for each of the four sentences. You will then write your sentence next to each picture, use Daft Doggy Voice Recording speak your sentence into the microphone and then put it on your Posterous site.

Native Americans in the Northern Plains painted stories on the skins of buffaloes. They are similar to Hmong story cloths.

WITH A PARTNER

Read about Buffalo Hide Paintings.

ON YOUR OWN

On a sheet of paper, draw a draft of your own Buffalo Hide painting, including  a short description for each picture.

Then, go to Imagination Cubed  or Flash Paint and draw & write your own story.   Email the link to your Posterous site.

Then go to Daft Doggy Voice Recording and record your story. Email the link to Posterous.

You will be making a slideshow using either Bookr or Big Huge Labs Slideshow.

You will take the summary sentences you wrote from the Learn About Native Americans website and add pictures for each of the six groups of Native Americans. You can then copy and paste the web address of your slideshow in the comments section below.

Today and tomorrow, we are going to begin learning about the First Americans, also called Native Americans.

We will also learn how to use Book Goo.

ON YOUR OWN:

First, go to Brainpop, watch the movie on American Indians and take the test.

Then read Different Tribes, Different Times.

Read What Did Native Americans Do First?

Watch Native People of North America.

WITH A PARTNER:

Then we will start reading together, using Book Goo, these webpages:

American Indians

Learn About Native Americans

You will “copy and paste” the url address of each of your Book Goo pages in an email and send it to your Posterous website or you can go directly to your Posterous site.

Why do people move to a new place?

Copy this question, and then write your answer, on your Posterous site.

Today, you will be setting-up two accounts:

1) If you do not already have an email account, you will set one up at either Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. If you already have an email address you can use it for this class. Be sure to write down your email address and the password so you don’t forget it.

If you already have an email address, please write it in the comments section below. No one else will see it besides Mr. Ferlazzo.

2) Posterous is where you will be displaying much of the work you do in this class. You will basically be setting-up your own website. Once you set-up your Posterous site, please write it in the comments section below.

Today, I would like each of you to take this Citizenship Test. This test will not affect your grade in the class — it will only help Mr. Ferlazzo become a better teacher.

You will only have one class period to complete it, so please try to not spend more than thirty seconds on each answer.

Once you have finished the test, please go to the Comments section and write your name and the number of correct answers you had on the test. Don’t worry — no one but Mr. Ferlazzo will see your score. Please be honest.