I will be in the vyew conference room Tuesday from 4-5 p.m., Wednesday from 11 – 12, and Thursday from 5-6 if you have questions about your project. If you can’t get there then, leave a message in the comment box below.

Parts of U.S. Government webquest

Civil War webquest

Learn about the federal government webquest

Branches of government webquest

Declaration of Independence

Explain the American Revolution

American Revoltion webquest

Create trading cards on figures from the American Revolution

Spies of the Revolution game

Create a newscast on Human Rights

Pick a Civil Rights activity here 

The Constitution:

• In Congress Assembled
• Created Equal?

History of our country:

• America Dreams
• Colonial Williamsburg  
• America’s Library
• The World of Benjamin Franklin

Human Rights and Civil Rights:

• Tolerance.org: Planet Tolerance
• Human Rights Education from Amnesty International
• Conflict Map from the Nobel Peace Prize Website
• RACE – For Kids 
• From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans

Some of these links are a reference source (they have information), some of them have activities to complete. Here are some possible ways to do this report:

1. A PowerPoint (at least 5 slides with some writing) with pictures
2. A post to this blog (at least 8 sentences) with links to the pages you used
3. A podcast where you give a report
4. A podcast where you have a discussion about an activity

You can write about a subject, or do an acitivity. If you do an activity, you can discuss or write about what you learned from the activity. If your write about a subject, you need to include links, or citations in your report. If you do a podcast, you should include a script (with citation of sources).

Please leave comment telling me what you will be doing for your project. Include the topic (subject), and what you will produce (a written report, a podcast, etc.):

This week we will be reading two selections, but don’t worry they are short, and the class did a marvelous job last week with a very long and difficult selection. The stories will cover events that were some of the first physical confrontations in the Revolutionary War.

Here are:

• CPW for the The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• Word Knowledge PowerPoint: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• CPW for The Night the Revolution Began
• Word Knowledge Power Point: The Night the Revolution Began

Here are links about the subjects we will read about this week:

Declaration of Indepedence
Colonial Lexington
The Intolerable Acts

Here are links related to the skills we will be studying this week:

Figurative language
Complex/Compound sentences
Synonyms/Antonyms
Parts of Speech: Use for subjects and verbs

Question for the week, what services do you get for the taxes you and your family pay?