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<title>Answer sheet for Final Exam review packet</title>
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Georgia Studies Final Examination – Study Guide
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">1.	parallels
<br />2.	meridians
<br />3.	relationships
<br />4.	South Carolina
<br />5.	climate describes the weather conditions over a period of time, weather is the temperature for a specific period of time
<br />6.	an estuary is the area around a river’s mouth where fresh and salt water mix; an aquifer is water-saturated layers of earth below the surface.
<br />7.	learn from the past
<br />8.	a primary source is a first hand source like a diary, journal, newspaper – a secondary source is from someone who is writing about an event in history, but wasn’t present for the event
<br />9.	Asia – across the Bering Strait
<br />10.	migration is movement from place to place – within a region, or continent; immigration is moving from one country to another following specific procedures for entering and leaving a country.
<br />11.	they determine the amount of carbon 14 in the remains and be examining its context
<br />12.	sherds are broken pieces of pottery, fossils are remains from animals, and artifacts are remains from human beings (like pottery)
<br />13.	site
<br />14.	this was the period when European nations began looking for their own direct route to the Far East
<br />15.	to serve as a buffer between the South Carolina colony and the French, Native Americans, and Spanish
<br />16.	Spain
<br />17.	most likely John Cabot
<br />18.	a trade policy designed to increase a country’s wealth
<br />19.	the drinking river water made colonists sick, also the heat, humidity, and insects
<br />20.	Britain and France
<br />21.	by relaxing their restrictions on slavery
<br />22.	the Pacific Ocean
<br />23.	charity, economics, and defense – also religion
<br />24.	they could not hold public office in Georgia
<br />25.	Anglican
<br />26.	upcountry or backcountry
<br />27.	agrarian economy – farming
<br />28.	they felt they needed slave labor to grow and harvest rice (later cotton)
<br />29.	plantation owners and merchants
<br />30.	Scots argued against slavery because they felt colonists wouldn’t work as hard if they had slaves
<br />31.	the trade route used by American merchants that involved the trading of rum, slaves, sugar and molasses – between England, Africa, The Caribbean, and The New World
<br />32.	tobacco, rice, and indigo
<br />33.	passing new tax laws on the colonists
<br />34.	Georgia had grown and prospered under royal governor Sir James Wright and many Georgians had become wealthy from trade with Great Britain
<br />35.	life, liberty and property
<br />36.	Rules and Regulations
<br />37.	bicameral legislature and three branches of government
<br />38.	July 4, 1776
<br />39.	boycotting British goods
<br />40.	the legislative  branch
<br />41.	consent of the governed
<br />42.	give it away
<br />43.	stay in the center of the state’s population
<br />44.	1790
<br />45.	many cotton-producing towns were far from navigable rivers
<br />46.	the head of each family got 100 acres of land plus 50 acres for each of his family members
<br />47.	Indian trails
<br />48.	the national government took over the Yazoo lands, paid over $1 million to Georgia, and agreed to remove all Indians from Georgia
<br />49.	New Echota
<br />50.	they wanted their land – and hopes of finding gold
<br />51.	Oklahoma
<br />52.	the removal of the Native Americans (primarily the Cherokees) from their land in North Georgia to Oklahoma
<br />53.	Sequoyah
<br />54.	antebellum
<br />55.	cotton and slavery
<br />56.	top:  planters and bottom:  slaves (field slaves)
<br />57.	slavery, tariffs (also the ideas of sectionalism, secession, solvency, and style)
<br />58.	abolitionist
<br />59.	totally destroy any  of Georgia’s resources (especially any that might prove beneficial to fighting in the war) – railroads and supplies for the Confederate army
<br />60.	Andersonville is in south Georgia, and it housed Union soldiers.
<br />61.	Rule by “divine right” means monarchs (kings) claimed their authority to rule came from God.  In past centuries, European living under a government ruled by a king had no control over the government.  In the US, the people govern the country.
<br />62.	The prime reason for government to exist in the US is because people have to live with other human beings
<br />63.	A group of people organized to manage conflict and establish behavior
<br />64.	Informal rules
<br />65.	Formal rules
<br />66.	An example is paying taxes
<br />67.	Of the people and of the law
<br />68.	Constitution
<br />69.	Getting more than ½ of the total votes in an election is called a majority; getting the most votes in an election, but still not getting over ½ of the votes is considered plurality
<br />70.	Self-government works because Americans meet their citizenship obligations voluntarily
<br />71.	A written constitution
<br />72.	It was too weak
<br />73.	Constitution
<br />74.	Preamble
<br />75.	Separation of Powers and Federalism for the framers plan for a national government:  the branches are legislative – makes the laws, executive – enforces the laws, and judicial – interprets the law.  Members of the legislative branch:  senators – serve 6 year terms and 2 per state, and House of Rep. – 2 year terms and # based on population; president/vice-president – 4 year terms; supreme court justices – for life with good behavior
<br />76.	Executive
<br />77.	Government based on the will of the people
<br />78.	Getting a 2/3 majority vote
<br />79.	Federalism – citizens must answer to two governments at the same time
<br />80.	Federal and state
<br />81.	Elastic clause
<br />82.	Federal law
<br />83.	2/3 vote of each house in Congress and ¾ of the states must ratify the amendment for it to become effective
<br />84.	federal
<br />85.	the Great Depression
<br />86.	supreme court justices – federal judges
<br />87.	1</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">st</span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> ten amendments to the Constitution
<br />88.	18
<br />89.	when voters elect officials to make political decisions for them, they are participating in the American form of democracy known as representative democracy.  When voters are allowed to make decisions themselves through voting, it is known as direct democracy.
<br />90.	The top officials at the national, state, and local levels are elected; appointed officials are selected from another official (such as a Supreme Court Justice is appointed by the President)
<br />91.	Local
<br />92.	When citizens vote for representatives at the national, state, and local levels of gov,. they are voting in a general election.  When voters are voting on a particular issue, this is a special election.  When voters are voting to voting to break a tie, this is a run-off election
<br />93.	Monday in November in even-numbered years
<br />94.	A referendum is a vote by the public on some question or issue instead of going through their representatives; a direct vote is an election in which a party’s candidates for public office are nominated by direct vote of the people
<br />95.	When candidates run for public office and are associated with a specific political party, it is known as partisan election; non-partisan is when a candidate is not associated by a specific political party
<br />96.	In Georgia, if no candidate wins a majority of the votes in the primary and a run-off election is needed, the voters can vote for any candidate of either party
<br />97.	The legislators
<br />98.	Because the population shifts and changes – and the districts are re-drawn every 10 years
<br />99.	40 days per year
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100.All slaves in the Confederate States were freed
<br />101. The period of time following the Civil War – rebuilding of the South
<br />102. codes that took away political and civil rights of former slaves
<br />103. a court case where the US Supreme Court ruled if equal facilities were provided for both races, then they could be legally separated
<br />104. segregation (especially in schools) that happens in fact although not required by law
<br />105. a tax paid by people in order to participate in an election (at one time some Georgia males had to pay a yearly tax of $1 to vote)
<br />106. laws that prohibited any child under the age of 10 from working in a factory
<br />107. to take away the right to vote
<br />108. stores run by and for farmers to provide farm supplies at a low cost
<br />109. farming, mining, and textile workers enjoying prosperity during the 1920’s
<br />110. he called it “the war to end all wars”
<br />111. dictators
<br />112. air attacks to boom rather than invade the island of Great Britain
<br />113. Germany, Japan, and Italy were axis nations; the Allied nations were Russia, Great Britain, and England – later joined by the United States
<br />114. he was elected to the presidency in the wake of the Great Depression and was elected to four terms as president, dying before the conclusion of WWII.  He was responsible for the social reform program known as the New Deal.
<br />115. Harry S. Truman – this forced Japan to surrender, ending WWII
<br />116. to find jobs (and to try to get away form racism)
<br />117. Soviet Union
<br />118. issue of Berlin – the spread of communism
<br />119. cheap labor and low taxes
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120.	Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea
<br />121.	Urban area
<br />122.	Civil rights are the protections and privileges given to all citizens by federal and state constitutions and laws
<br />123.	Omitted question
<br />124.	Civil rights are the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the bill of rights
<br />125.	Montgomery bus boycott
<br />126.	The act that outlawed racial discrimination in buying, selling, renting, and leasing of real estate was the Fair Housing Act
<br />127.	It ended segregation of schools
<br />128.	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC
<br />129.	Women, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics and the handicapped
<br />130.	White and black agitators from the North
<br />131.	America’s involvement in the Vietnam War
<br />132.	The Vietnam War
<br />133.	Democratic
<br />134.	The period before written records were kept 
<br />135.	Plymouth Colony
<br />136.	King George II of England
<br />137.	The person who pushed for the settlement of Georgia in order to help with the economic situation in England
<br />138.	The Indian chief who allowed the English to settle in Savannah
<br />139.	Slavery
<br />140.	Rice and silk-Georgia’s early settlers established an agrarian economy
<br />141.	Is a laborer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time
<br />142.	Those who supported the King of England at the time of the Revolutionary War
<br />143.	Those that opposed the policies of the British in Georgia
<br />144.	A citizen army with little to no formal training
<br />145.	A formal approval of a document or act
<br />146.	The counting of citizens every ten years to determine representation in Congress
<br />147.	Tax on imports
<br />148.	The belief that the states should have more power than the central government-putting the interests of a particular part of the country above those of the nation
<br />149.	A famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad
<br />150.	A loose gathering of sovereign states where the states have more power that the central government
<br />151.	Cut off supplies to the Confederacy during the Civil War
<br />152.	A Northerner who advantage of the South’s misfortune after the Civil War; Southerners who helped carpetbaggers were know as scalawags
<br />153.	A well known Georgia poet
<br />154.	To forgive or pardon a large group of people 
<br />155.	A change or addition to a document
<br />156.	Unicameral-one house legislature; bicameral-two house legislature (House of Representatives and Senate)
<br />157.	To refuse to use or buy something as a protest
<br />158.	Having exclusive rights to act or conduct business without competition
<br />159.	Schools that Yeoman farmers sent their children (verses academies where Planters sent their children to school)
<br />160.	Rebuild-specifically the period of rebuilding in the South after the Civil War
<br />161.	Money and resources
<br />162.	Laws that required separate schools for white and black children 
<br />163.	Changing Georgia economically
<br />164.	To be given the right to vote
<br />165.	Working on farms 
<br />166.	Founded Tuskegee Institute and felt that blacks should accept their status for the time being and forget about social equality and political action and that blacks should learn a skill, become self-sufficient and that rights would come
<br />167.	Was an outspoken, controversial black leader, helped form the Niagara Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and sought equality for blacks
<br />168.	Able to make affordable automobiles by using the assembly line
<br />169.	The assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary
<br />170.	The South’s first radio station-“Welcome South Brother”
<br />171.	In the 1930’s 
<br />172.	Making the first successful air craft flight in North Carolina
<br />173.	A major league baseball player from Georgia
<br />174.	A major league baseball player who hit over 755 homerooms
<br />175.	First president elected from Georgia
<br />176.	Coming together of the races 
<br />177.	Someone who does not believe in war
<br />178.	A strong feeling for one’s nation and its culture
<br />179.	The political philosophy where one believes that government should own major services and the means of production
<br />180.	Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut 
<br />181.	It gave President Johnson the authority to resist North Vietnamese aggression by any means necessary
<br />182.	Thomas W. Cobb
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<title>Notebook check - Friday, 5/11/07</title>
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There will be a notebook check on Friday - 5/7/07 --- here are the items you need to include:
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1.  Ch. 13 notes - 2 column notes
<br />2.  Ch. 13 ?'s pages 191, 194, 188, 202
<br />3.  Ga. Stories ?'s
<br />4.  Sherman's March facts
<br />5.  Ch. 13 Review Questions
<br />6.  Ch. 13 test
<br />7.  Ch. 14 illustration
<br />8.  Ch. 14 Acrostic
<br />9.  Poem analysis and chart
<br />10. "Cloze" notes pages 206-210
<br />11.  Timeline/picture analysis
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 10:38:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Assignments for week of 4/30-5/4/07</title>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>**Plans are always subject to change if the need arises.**
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<strong>Lesson Plans – week of 4/30-5/4/07
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<br /> </strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Monday:</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>
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<strong>1.	Tests will be returned on Tuesday – after Chorus and Orchestra students have taken the test
<br />2.	Judge illustrations
<br />3.	Read poem “Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar Is in the Land” together and discuss
<br />4.	Students complete backside of worksheet – chart of Thought Questions – on own – read pages 206-207 to complete worksheet.
<br />5.  Progress reports distributed</strong>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>**Progress reports - project grades from Civil War journal project will not be posted on this progress report.  I am grading and returning a few of these each day:-)
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Tuesday:</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>
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<strong>1.	Return tests.
<br />2.	Go over chart from yesterday.
<br />3.	Have students look over Georgia Labor Contract and answer 5 questions – discuss as a class – as an overlay. 
<br />4.	Students read – on own – pages 207-210 to prepare for note taking activity.
<br />5.	Take notes on pages 207-210 – teacher writes on overlay and students supply answers.</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Wednesday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	Read pages 210-216 – individually – and complete cloze activity with chart on “Political Reconstruction”</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Thursday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>: 
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<strong>1.	Go over cloze activity and chart – have students fill in any missing gaps on their sheets.
<br />2.	Watch Georgia Stories Program 10 – The Rise of Modern Georgia, Part I (Reconstruction and Growth) – discuss afterwards</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Friday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	ACROSTIC  on “Reconstruction” – test grade for chapter</strong>
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<strong>Watch video – What if the South had won the War?  and discuss  - we will start this today and finish on Monday.</strong>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:12:49 -0500</pubDate>
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Here are our assignments for this week:
<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Monday and Tuesday</strong></span> - Watch video of Sherman's March w/question and fact sheet
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<br />Wednesday</strong></span>- Projects due (this due date was extended from 4/24 to 4/25
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<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Thursday</strong></span>- Review for chapter 13 (The Civil War) test
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<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Friday</strong></span>- 1.  Chapter 13 test
<br />              2.  Illustrate chapter 14 - Reconstruction
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We have a shortened class schedule due to CRCT testing in homeroom.
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Lesson Plans – 4/16-4/20 (CRCT testing- 40 minute classes)
<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>**notebook check sometime between Mon. - Wed. of this week**</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Monday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	Introduce project – diary/journal project with character cards  - due on Tuesday, 4/24 *video from last week and the ones from this week (along with textbook information and information found on the internet) should be helpful in completing the project.
<br />2.	Finish notes from Friday.
<br />3.	Read pages 191-194 and answer questions #1-4 - due Wednesday.</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Tuesday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	Watch Georgia Stories II – The Civil War, Part I
<br />2.	Work on project.</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Wednesday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>1.	Go over questions pages 191 (from last week) and 194 from Monday.
<br />2.	Civil War “Word Research” puzzle – pairs compete to see who can fill in sheet 1</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>st</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong> for some sort of prize.
<br />3.	Work on project.
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Thursday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>: Jakaitis 
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<strong>1.	Watch Georgia Stories I – Program 9  First Century of Statehood, Part IV (The Civil War) – Battle of Jonesboro, The Civil War and the Black Soldier, and Andersonville Prison.  
<br />2.	Follow up video with questions related to topics featured in the video.</strong>
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<strong>Suggs:</strong>
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<strong>1.	Watch Georgia Stories II – Program 8 – The Civil War, Part II  - March to the Sea and Thomasville:  Playground of the Northern Industrialists.
<br />2.	Follow up video with questions related to topics featured in the video.
<br />3.	 Work on project - project is due Tuesday, 4/23</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Friday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:  Suggs
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<strong>1.	Watch Georgia Stories I – Program 9  First Century of Statehood, Part IV (The Civil War) – Battle of Jonesboro, The Civil War and the Black Soldier, and Andersonville Prison.  
<br />2.	Follow up video with questions related to topics featured in the video.</strong>
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<strong>Jakaitis:</strong>
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<strong>1.	Watch Georgia Stories II – Program 8 – The Civil War, Part II  - March to the Sea and Thomasville:  Playground of the Northern Industrialists.
<br />2.	Follow up video with questions related to topics featured in the video.
<br />3.	 Work on project - project is due Tuesday, 4/23</strong>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:11:39 -0500</pubDate>
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Here are the items that should be in your notebook - notebook check either Mon, Tues, or Wed:
<br />1.  North Before the War
<br />2.  South Before the War
<br />3.  Growing Economic and Regional Diff.
<br />4.  ?'s pages 169 and 173
<br />5.  Road to War packet
<br />6.  Framed paragraph - beg. of chapter 12
<br />7.  ?'s pg. 178
<br />8. Reaction to slavery - letter
<br />9.  ch. 12 vocabulary story
<br />10. ?'s page 180 and 182
<br />11.  Ch. 12 review
<br />12.  ch. 12 test
<br />13. ch. 13 illustration
<br />14. Strengths vs. Weaknesses
<br />15. ch. 13 ?'s
<br />16.  Bull Run ?'s
<br />17.  Comparing soldiers - Billy Yank vs. Johnny Reb
<br />18.  Ch. 13 notes sheet - 2 column notes
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:32:37 -0500</pubDate>
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Monday:  1.  Return test chapter 12 - given before Spring Break
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           2.  Review reasons for Civil War
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    3.  Begin discussion of chapter 13
<br />    4.  Strengths and weaknesses of Union and Confederacy before the war
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Tuesday:
<br />   1.  Discuss the strengths and weaknesses worksheet from yesterday
<br />   2.  terms of the war - quiz on Friday of this week
<br />   3.  Read pages 184-188 and answer question on page 188
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Wednesday:
<br />1.  Go over questions page 188
<br />2.  Pose question - students write in notebook - "Do you think you would be will to fight against someone in your own family (like in a war) based on your feelings about different political issues?  Why/why not?
<br />3.  Review Civil War terms - quiz on Friday
<br />4.  Map activity - War Divides The Nation - 1861
<br />5.  Read pages 188-191 and answer questions page 191
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Thursday:
<br />1.  Go over map activity from yesterday
<br />2.  Watch DVD on Bull Run and answer questions that go along with it
<br />3.  Compare Johnny Reb and Billy Yank - soldiers from each side - differences
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Friday:
<br />1.  Quiz on terms
<br />2.  Take notes on Civil War - 2 column notes
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/04/weekly_assignme_23.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/04/weekly_assignme_23.html</guid>
<category>Assessments</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:14:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Textbook adoption</title>
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If you are interested in viewing the  two different textbooks that we are thinking of adopting for next year, they are now available for view in the media center.
<br />Thanks
<br />Amy Suggs
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/04/textbook_adopti.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/04/textbook_adopti.html</guid>
<category>Current Affairs</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:03:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Dance Tickets</title>
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If you did not purchase your dance ticket the week of 3/26 (the week before Spring Break), you can still do so.   You will need to see Mrs. Johnson - she will need your $, your shirt size, and your 6th period teacher.  Dance tickets are $20.  You don't want to miss this great time!!!
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/04/dance_tickets.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/04/dance_tickets.html</guid>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:01:57 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Assignments for week of 3/26-3/30/07</title>
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Here are your assignments for the week (sorry these are a little late!!)
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Monday:
<br />1.  Go over "Road to War"
<br />2.  Read pages 173, 176-178 and answer questions page 178 (#1-5)
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Tuesday:
<br />1.  React to slavery activities with primary sources
<br />2.  Start chapter 12 review
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Wednesday:
<br />1.  Share letters from yesterday
<br />2.  Vocabulary activity - quiz with partner
<br />3.  Chapter review worksheet w/partner
<br />4.  Read pages 178-182 (answer questions pages 180 and 182)
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Thursday:
<br />1.  Go over review worksheet
<br />2.  Review game
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Friday:
<br />1.  Chapter 12 test
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/assignments_for_45.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/assignments_for_45.html</guid>
<category>Assessments</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:49:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Notebook check on 3/20/07</title>
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Here are the items that should be glued in to your notebook:
<br />1.  Cloze/outline - pages 122-131
<br />2.  Outline - pages 131-136
<br />3.  Chapter 9 test
<br />4.  Ch. 10 illustration
<br />5.  Agree/Disagree - Trail of Tears
<br />6.  ?'s pages 140 &#38; 142
<br />7.  War of 1812 notes
<br />8.  Trail of Tears - acrostic - either you or your partner will have this
<br />9.  ?'s pages 147 &#38; 152
<br />10.  Ch. 11 picture analysis and graphic organizer
<br />11.  Ch. 11 graph
<br />12.  Outline pages 164-166
<br />13.  Ch. 11 review
<br />14.  Ch. 11 test
<br />15.  Ch. 12 paragraph about issues of the war
<br />16.  2 worksheets on North and South before the war
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/notebook_check_3.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/notebook_check_3.html</guid>
<category>Notebook Checks</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:00:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Weekly assignments - week of 3/19-3/23/07</title>
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<strong>Lesson Plans – 3/19-3/23/07
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<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Monday:</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>
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<strong>1.	Return test
<br />2.	Share some of the causes of the war
<br />3.	Discuss economic differences between the North and the South prior to the war.
<br />4.	Complete worksheets – The South:  Old Times Were Not Forgotten and The North Before the War:  Expanding Territories</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Tuesday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	Framed paragraph to start chapter 12 – have students work with a partner to try to finish the paragraph.  Then go over as a class and compare their answers vs. the real answers.
<br />2.	Have students create a t-chart comparing Utica, NY vs. Rome, Ga. – pages 169 and 170.  Discuss as a class independent vs. interdependent
<br />3.	Complete “Growing Economic and Regional Differences” – finish for homework is not completed in class.</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Wednesday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	Go over “Growing Economic and Regional Differences” worksheet – have students correct their answers.  (bring in idea of tariffs)
<br />2.	Read on own pages 168-173 and answer questions on page 169 (#1-3) and page 173 (#1-4)</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Thursday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
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<strong>1.	Go over questions pages 168 and 173 – add in any needed information about tariffs, states’ rights, sovereign, nullification, secede, secession, and territory.
<br />2.	Have students complete map activity free vs. slave states – discuss the importance of equal number of each for representation in Congress (why would people feel representation in Congress was so important)
<br />3.	Start Civil War packet (“Road to Civil War) – students cut out pictures and note taking sections, glue picture with correct event, and take notes on the event.  (all gets glued into notebook)</strong>
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<br /></strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Friday</strong></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>:
<br /></strong></span>
</p><p style="font-family:Times New Roman;">
<strong>1.	Finish “Road to Civil War” packet </strong>
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/weekly_assignme_22.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/weekly_assignme_22.html</guid>
<category>Assessments</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:56:50 -0500</pubDate>
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Monday:   1.  Notes on Structure
<br />                   2.  Graph on slave population
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            3.  Finish graphic organizer pages 156-163
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Tuesday:  1.  Quiz on pages 156-163
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            2.  Outline pages 164-166
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     3.  Chapter review sheet - due Thursday
</p><p style="text-indent:60pt;">
Wednesday:  1.  Ga. Stories - Georgia's Westward Movement w/questions
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            2.  Finish chapter review sheet - due tomorrow
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Thursday:  1.  Go over chapter review sheet
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       2.  Review game
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Friday:  1. Chapter 11 test  (**this test will be put on next quarter's grading period)
<br />               2.  Writing assignment:  write one paragraph about what you think are the causes of the Civil War - and why you think this   
<br />                    (justify your answers).  This will count as a daily "Write to Learn" grade.
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/assignments_wee_2.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/assignments_wee_2.html</guid>
<category>Assessments</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:15:29 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Assignments for Mon-Wed. - 3/5-3/7/07</title>
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Here are the assignments for the first part of this week - I will post the last part of the week after I get it planned out today:-)
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Monday:
<br />1.  Finish War of 1812 notes
<br />2.  ACROSTIC - Trail of Tears with a partner - this will count as a quiz grade
<br />3.  Homework - read pages 147-152 - answer questions page 152 #1-5
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Tuesday:
<br />1.  Go over questions from last night
<br />2.  Graphic organizer on Trail of Tears with an expanded sentence - this will be completed in groups - will count  as a test grade for this chapter.
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Wednesday:  Early Release
<br />1.  Finish and turn in graphic organizers
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/assignments_for_44.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/03/assignments_for_44.html</guid>
<category>Assessments</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:11:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Today&apos;s test</title>
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The test is taking longer than expected...so we will be working on it both today and tomorrow.  The rest of the week's assignments will be pushed back a day:-)
<br />Mrs. Suggs
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<link>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/02/todays_test.html</link>
<guid>http://mabryonline.org/blogs/suggs/archives/2007/02/todays_test.html</guid>
<category>Assessments</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:46:43 -0500</pubDate>
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