Monday the 13th Dec 2008

Cross strait shipping and cargo starts today!

Pick up your tests on my desk and staple them to your notebooks. Another test this friday!

1. science -- three articles each -- We'll start new science program this week.
2. current events three articles each

History:
Sebastian
Constitution: Article 1 deals with the legislature. Article 2 deals with the Presidency. Answer the following and email to me.

1. How is the President elected?
2. What are the qualifications for office?
3. What are his powers?
4. How can he be removed?
5. The US constitution is driven by the idea of "checks and balances" between each branch of our three branches of the government, executive, judicial, and legislative. In the section on the powers of the President, what body has oversight on his appointments?

Sheridan.
You did an amazing job with the Revolutionary War, Danno! Now on to the next bit of business, the expansion of the United States after the Revolutionary War. First we are starting with the Louisiana Purchase

1. Print out this map. Find an image of the Louisiana Purchase online and draw (1) the area controlled by the US (2) the Louisiana Purchase. (3) the area controlled by Spain.

2. Read this easy website on the Lousiana Purchase. Then this difficult essay on the Lousiana Purchase.

3. Answer the questions in your notebook:

(a) Who did we buy the area from? How much did it cost?

(b) Who was living across most of the area at the time? Did we ask their permission?

(c) Why was Jefferson interested in acquiring this area?

(d) After he purchased it, who did he send to explore it?

This week's reading is the book on Lewis and Clark. It is sitting on the bottom, left shelf under where we keep the library books. Read the first few chapters.

MATH: practice books only

ENGLISH:Monday Poem. Read this poem aloud, each of you, and see if you can figure out what the poet is trying to do. Conference call me on sSkype at 1:30 to discuss the poem.

The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord

I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Writing
Zeb: Madison and the Constitution! I want to see several good paragraphs.
Sheridan: five paragraph essay on the revolutionary war. Write a draft giving three reasons why the Americans won the war and the British lost it. Review the information from the Dummies book.