READING: Read a minimum of 20 minutes each night
including weekends. Read and summarize each character in Bull Run. Due without fail
March 6, 2009.
VOCABULARY AND
SPELLING: Define each word as it applies to Chapter 22.
WORDS: hard tack, dysentery, blockade, Monitor,
Merrimac, typhoid, anesthesia
, war of attrition, Dorothea
Dix, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, quackery, unconditional surrender, draft, habeus
corpus, Gettysburg Address. 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
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MIND MAPS : Create mind maps for Chapter 22. Mind map form for
Chapter 22
. Test
3/11/09.
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. Next draft
due 3/06/09. Quarter ends 3/15/09.
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__Vocabulary |
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