07) September 6, 2018

Daily Closing 9-4

1. Welcome
2. Create a new blog post.
1. Name it--07) September 6, 2018
3. Family History Project
1. Interviews Due September 11
2. Interview your family members
1. Use this questionnaire and link it to your blog
2. Family History Questionnaire
1. Ideally, talk with all of them face to face and have a conversation with them.
2. If that can’t happen, use email or text or talk to them on the phone
3. Be ready to answer their questions!
4. Don’t be afraid to ask me, too!
4. Daily Write--Family History Interviews
1. In order to be ready for Tuesday, what do you have to do?  How will you do it?
5. Ethnicity, Nationality, Culture
6. Crash Course US History--Taxes and Smuggling
1. How were the American Revolution and the War for Independence two different things?
2. Why were the colonists mad about the Tea Act of 1773 which caused the Boston Tea Party?
3. What was the British name for the Intolerable Acts and why were they intolerable to the Colonists?
4. Why did the First Continental Congress meet and what did they do?
5. Why did the Colonists begin to talk about God given rights in 1774?
6. How did the Colonists fare in the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and New York?
7. Why were political elites getting nervous as the war progressed?
8. Why did the First Continental Congress issue the Olive Branch Petition and how did King George III react?
9. Who was Thomas Paine and why was he famous?  Why was he able to make the claims he made?  Who were his arguments aimed at and did they hit their mark?
7. Question Your Answers
1. How do you know what you know?
8. Daily Closing
1. What did you learn?
2. How did you learn it? (What did we do and what got you to understand it?)
3. How does it or will it affect you?
4. How can you use it?