Notes on Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth (PDF, 1.6 mb)
Notes on Salem, triangular trade (PDF, 444 kb)

Above find the class notes from the colonial era.

I don’t normally put all the notes on the website like this, but since so many students have missed so much time, I thought it only fair to make them available.

Don’t take this for granted.

In the future, you’ll be singularly responsible for getting the notes you may have missed in class.

Bill of Rights worksheet (PDF, 8 kb)

The worksheet above was distributed Thursday, October 29, and collected the next day.  It requires a response to the movie (below), as well as your own reflections on the importance of civil liberties.

This European geography quiz game should help you prepare for Friday’s map test.

You know the drill; use the quarterly response form, then write an essay summarizing the paper’s argument.  Choose one of the two articles below.

The first was written in 1943 in the teeth of World War, and it offered a prediction of how we would study geography in the postwar era.  The prediction was wrong, but by studying the thought process behind it, we get a better sense of the radically evolving worldview of the mid-20th Century.

The second is a selection from a longer work, written in 1961 by Jane Jacobs.  In it, she considers our changing definition of “nature”, and challenges city planners and developers to rethink the relationship between urban centers and their surrounding countryside.  Should cities be built for cars, or for pedestrians?

Read them both, pick the one you like, and respond to just one article.

QWA response form (PDF, 28 kb)

“Air Age Geography” by George T. Renner, 1943 (PDF, 943 kb)
Selection from The Life and Death of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, 1961 (PDF, 1.7 mb)

Week 8’s map is a treasure map. Locate (or hide) a (n appropriate) item somewhere in the school, and lead us to it.

Colonial life packet (PDF, 4.8 mb)

This is the 16-page colonial life packet that we used in class between October 20 and October 29.

It includes:

• Three map activities
• Squanto guided reading
• Chapter 4 colonial settlement chart
• Chapter 4, section 4 guided reading
• Settler’s journal personal essay prompt
• Comic-style text on colonial characteristics
• Colonial regions graphic organizers

It’s due Friday, October 30.

U.S. Constitution study guide (PDF, 59 kb)

This is the in-class handout with two columns — one for the text of the U.S. Constitution (what it says), and a second for your notes (what it means).

Ideally, you will fill this out as your classmates cover the entirety of the document in class with their Constitution projects.

00If not, I highly recommend you either go article by article and take some notes, or find a reputable classmate and borrow his or her notes.

Either way, you may use this on the test.

If you aren’t clear about a specific passage, you can find a pretty good translation site here.  The layout is very Web 1.0, but the content is comprehensive and straightforward.

Here’s the video we watched in class today.  It runs about 52 minutes; we only watched the first 35 in class.

If you are interested in learning more about Jamestown — including its history as a base for pirates — you will enjoy this video: