Declaration of Independence Introductory Page
                                Chapters 6 ~ 8




___ Activity 1 Due October 10
Create a new title page in your notebook. Title it: The Colonies Declare Independence

___ Activity 2 Due October 13
Conflicts with France reading page. Email the questions in bold and answers in plain font.

___ Activity 3 Due October 19
The debt from the French and Indian War causes trouble in the colonies reading page. Email the questions in bold and answers in plain font.

___ Activity 4 Due October 24
The First and Second Continental Congress reading page. Email the questions in bold and answers in plain font.

___ Activity 5 Due October 27
The Declaration of Independence reading page. Email the questions in bold and answers in plain font.

___ Activity 6 Due October 13
Each of you should get a partner. With your partner, create a graphic organizer that compares and contrasts the French and the British colonies. Place this in your notebook. The horizontal axis should include the following headings: Size of Colonies, Government Structure, and Relationship with American Indians. The vertical axis should contain the following headings: British Colonies, French Colonies. Fill in the organizer by writing a sentence or two for each category.

___ Activity 7 Due October 26
Create a flowchart in your notebook, that describes the relationship between events [such as the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre] and British laws found on page 140 in your textbook. Include all significant details as you can find relating to the cause effect relationship between events and laws.

___ Activity 8 Due October 30
Read Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Email a written analysis of it’s symbolism. Write a poem of your own dealing with this unit in United States history.

___ Activity 9 Due November 3
Divide yourself into groups of 3 or 4, but not with someone you have worked with in the past. Each group is to create a set of 10 rules that would apply to everyone on the school campus [students, teachers, principal, janitors, bus drivers ... everyone]. These rules must be fair to everyone, deal with all matters of school [sports programs, homework, grades, etc], and design them so that the school would run more efficiently and effectively and everyone would accept them. Only after everyone in your group agrees to the set of rules can any specific rule take effect. You will be asking for rules that are primarily “a league of friendship” between all parties at school.


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