READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night including weekends. Begin reading The Outsiders.  Due February 18, 2009. 

VOCABULARY AND SPELLING: Define each word as it applies to Chapter 21. WORDS: Union, Talmadge Amendment, secession, Missouri Compromise, gag rule, Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom's Cabin , Kansas-Nebraska Act, dissolution, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Dred Scott, Compromise of 1850, John Brown, deadlock, Wilmot Proviso. Define, give the page where it is used, and write an original sentence with each one; also draw an icon for each. Due with the test on Friday. For a grade of "C" the standard is 10 words written correctly; "B" is 13 words; "A" 15 words. Completed homework is half the grade. VOCABULARY AND SPELLING (Plan B).

Current events: Due ______________________________. 

MIND MAPS : Create mind maps for Chapter 21. Mind map form for Chapter 21. Test Thursday, February 12, 2009. 

CONSTUITUTION PROJECT: Instructions on a separate sheet of paper.  Due Wednesday, February 25, 2009.

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT:  Each eighth grade student at Windsor Middle School provides 5 or more hours of public service as a part of the social studies grade.  If you have not yet done this report, now is a good time.  

PROBLEM SOLUTION LETTER: Write a letter to send to someone in authority posing a solution to a current problem in the school, community, state, or nation.  The grade for this letter will be entered when I send the letter to the appropriate person.  Letter samples available on the internet.  First "perfect" copy due 2/10/09.
  

2/2/09	2/3/09	2/4/09	2/5/09
__Read 20 min.	__Read 20 min.	__Read 20 min.	__Read 20 min.
__Problem Solution       Letter 15 min.	__Constitution        Project 15 min.	__Constitution        Project 15 min.	__Vocabulary      15 min.
__Vocabulary      15 min.	__ SS mind maps      Ch. 21 15 min.	__Problem Solution      Letter 15 min.	__ SSCh. 21       15 min.

I will accept homework assignments by e-mail on the due date. My e-mail address is: katherinsterling@hotmail.com
Please note that there is no period at the end of the last sentence; this is another example of a language in transition. Please also remember that the computer logs the date and time that you sent the e-mail message. I do not accept late work unless you have been absent. Further information may be obtained from my web page: http://www.mrssterling.org/school/index.html
There will be current copies of daily Class Work and Homework Helps posted there as well as work samples, project instructions, attendance.. If you have been absent, please refer to this rather than request work from the office.
Current grades are available at: mygradebook.com