HOMEWORK
6th grade. 9/1/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. How does the water go down the drain when the sink and drain are directly on the equator?
2. How does the water go down the drain when the sink is north or south of the equator?
3. What can you do with an egg on the equator?
4. Are you stronger or weaker while standing on the equator?
5. Is it harder or easier to walk a straight line along the equator?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVntSA-qoQ
7th grade. 9/3/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. How long did it take for Rome to fall?
2. What bad dream did Marcus Aurelius have?
3. Why did he want the "Heart of the Barbarians" captured alive?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsG8HdMfLJ4
7th grade. 9/9/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What emperor oversaw construction of the Hippodrome?
2. What connected the palace and the emperor's box?
3. How many spectators could the Hippodrome hold?
4. ".... spectators gathered to watch all the great___________________________ events,_________________________ , ____________________________, _______________________ racing,even______________________________ ."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjrnvDn2tcA
6th Grade. 9/14/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. What would happen to a builder if a house he constructed collapsed and killed the owner?
2. What would happen if the house collapsed and killed the owner's son?
3. What would happen if a slave died in the collapse?
4. What would happen if goods were ruined in the collapse?
5. What happened to the "Colossus at Rhodes" during a 2nd century earthquake?
6. Why did the Bove Cathedral's roof collapse?
6th Grade. 9/15/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. What will Gilgamesh "never find"?
2. What two things did the gods create?
3. For whom did the gods hold back eternal life?
4. "We should enjoy our _______________ , spending them in
happiness not _____________________ ."
5. "Savor your _____________ . Make each of your ___________ a
delight. Bathe and ____________________ yourself. Where bight
________________________ , _____________________ clean. Let
____________________ and ___________________ fill your house. Love
the ________________________ who ___________________ your
__________________ ."
8th grade. 9/22/09. Please click on download and watch the attached video then answer the following questions:
1. What three countries were competing to claim new territories?
2. What explorer’s discoveries convinced the Dutch to expand into North America?
3. How did most of the first colonists make a living?
4. What did the Native Americans think they were agreeing to do with the land?
5. What happened to Peter Stuyvesant that confirmed his “toughness”?
6. Name three things he did to bring order to New Amsterdam.
7. What did Stuyvesant begin “funding”?
8. How long did the Dutch rule New Netherland?
9. In 1664 what was the new name?
10. Name five things in New York City that have “early Dutch influence”.
6th grade. 9/24/09. Please click on the link and finish drawing your picture.
Nebuchadnezzar 1 Nebuchadnezar 1
6th grade. 9/24/09. Please click on the link and finish drawing your picture.
Nebuchadnezzar 2 Nebuchadnezzar-2
7th grade. 9/24/09. Please click on the download and watch the attached video. Then answer the following questions:
1. What is "Pristine Islam"?
2. How could "perda" be considered offensive to westerners?
3. Why did God instruct Mohammad to have his wives cover themselves?
4. "In _____________________ , where it's so _________ to do what's
best for ________ . I have to remember that, you know, every year I
have to give _________ out of my __________ . Every year I ______
and I know what it's like to be _________ and ________ and not be able
to _______. It teaches you ________________. It helps you to
________________ that you need to _________ out to people that it's
not all about ________ , it's about _________________ ."
8th grade. 9/24/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. What country are the players featured in the video from?
2. Name something they all have in common besides playing the same sport.
3. Where are their ancestors from? Guess if you don't know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7NUr6kSZo
7th grade. 9/28/09. Please click on the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. "There can be no greater _________________ than to _________ ."
2. What was Mohammad demanding the people do with the gods of their ancestors?
3. According to the video, what does Islam mean?
7th grade. 10/01/09. Please click on the link and finish drawing your picture.
7th grade. 10/01/09. Please click on the link and finish drawing your picture.
6th grade. 10/1/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. What desert does the Nile River "cut through"?
2. What "thrived in the hot sunny weather"?
3. "Over countless __________________________ this soil was
________________________ along the
___________________ of the Nile. And where the river flowed into the
__________________________ Sea
it created a region of fertile ___________________ called the Nile
_________________ ."
8th grade. 10/2/09. Please read the attached poem and answer the following questions:
1. Who are the "embattled farmers" in his poem?
2. Who are the "foe" he speaks of?
3. What's a "votive stone"?
4. "To die, or live their children free" What does that mean?
8th grade. 10/9/09. Attached is the study guide for the upcoming Chapter 2 exam on Wenesday the 14th:
7th grade. 10/13/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What is the average life expectancy in Africa?
2. What were the people running from?
3. Why would they run from this?
6th grade. 10/13/09. Please click on the attached document and complete the take home quiz.
6th grade. 10/14/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. "Modern science allows ______________________ anthropologists to draw ____________________ about the sort of ___________________ someone did."
2. What two current things can "reveal intimate details of life and death"?
3. What was Amenhotep's favorite type of food?
4. What did the Ancient Egyptians conquer?
5. "Once an Egyptian ___________________ made it to the __________________ the ______________________ and the ______________________ performed its ___________________.
6. True or False. The ancient Egyptians didn't write their vowels.
7. What book stated, "My corpse is permanent. It will not perish or be destroyed in the land forever."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HdfHg4XrH4
8th grade. 10/16/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. What is a confederation?
2. Who had more power, the states of central government?
3. According to Alexander Hamilton, what was the fundamental problem with government?
4. What was the "third deficiency"?
6th grade. 10/14/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. How old is the Sphinx?
2. It is the "very symbol of ________________ __________________ ."
3. For most of its existence, it was spent beneath what?
4. What does the face "stare at"?
8th grade. 10/20/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Who introduced the Virginia Plan?
2. "Over seven weeks of debate, the impassioned delegates wrangled over everything we still argue about today; _______ ________ versus _________ ________ and the limits of __________ _________."
3. What was Alexander Hamilton's proposal?
4. According to Richard Brookhiser, did Hamilton want an American monarchy? why or why not?
5. Did Ben Franklin agree with the Constitution? why or why not?
6. How many states needed to ratify the Constitution?
7th grade. 10/20/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What/Who is the song about?
2. Tell me three things you already know about him?
6th grade. 10/21/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Hatshepsut was called the "first great _______________".
2. How far did the Egyptian Empire's influence stretch?
3. What three "prizes" did the Egyptians have during the 18th dynasty?
4. How is Hatshepsut's temple different from other male pharaohs?
5. Who was her nephew?
6. What happened to the statues at her temple?
7. What is a female pharaoh called?
8th grade. 10/26/09. Please click on the attached link for your chapter 3 essay topics:
8th grade. 10/26/09. Please click on the attached link for the Articles of Confederation handout for your essay topics:
8th grade. 10/26/09. Please click on the attached link for the Bill of Rights handout for your essay topics:
8th grade. 10/26/09. Please click on the attached link for the Great Compromise handout for your essay topics:
8th grade. 10/31/09. Please click on the attached document and enjoy the show.
president obama's movie ticket
7th grade. 11/2/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. According to Thomas Jefferson, what cannot be limited without being lost?
2. What type of weapons do the protestors have?
3. How did the unknown protestor risk his life and shock the world?
4. How many people died in the Tiananmen Square Protest?
8th grade. 11/3/09. Please read the attached document and be prepared fo a reading quiz on the following questions:
1. What "profoundly shaped" George Mason's education?
2. What did Mason not do? member of the House of Burgesses, planter, justice of the Fairfax County Court, chairman of the Annapolis Convention
3. What did Mason write to London merchants after the Stamp Act of 1765?
4. What two major concerns of Mason's were incorporated in the
Constitution?
8th grade. 11/5/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. "Freedom of religion, speech and press plus you can ________________________ in crowds and
protest"
2. What did the Minutemen not know about?
3. Who do you not have to let sleep on your couch?
4. What do you need to "arrest me"?
5. "Sorry Alligators no _________________ ___________________."
6. "Number six you must process me __________________________ ."
7. Who's on the jury?
8. What can you not make me drink "for the fun of it"?
9. "People get more than these _____________________ ."
10. What can states do according to the 10th Amendment?
7th grade. 11/2/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. How many people practice Tai Chi on a given day in China?
2. What is Chi?
3. What is Yin?
4. What is Yang
6th grade. 11/5/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. How many people live in Israel today?
2. What three major religions call Jerusalem home?
3. What did settlers believe Mt. Moriah would connect them to?
4. What else is the "Western Wall" called?
5. What Islamic shrine stands directly above the Western Wall?
6. When was the "Church of the Sepulchre" built?
7. What roman emperor converted Jerusalem into a Greco-Roman city?
8th grade. 11/10/09. Please download the attached worksheet and answer the questions:
6th grade. 11/12/09. Please watch the attached video and answer the following questions:
1. What two teams are playing in the video?
2. Which team do you think is the underdog?
3. Which team wins the game?
4. Why would this game be compared to "David vs. Goliath"?
6th grade. 11/12/09. Attached is the picture of David and Goliath:
6th grade. 11/13/09. Attached is a link to the White House website. You will be connected to Presidents page. To find your three U.S. Generals that became president it might be better to narrow your search online. The website provided will give you the information, but it could be a lot of reading on your part.
7th grade.11/16/08. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Which movie would you like to see, Disney's Mulan or the epic drama series Hua Mulan?
2. Why?
8th grade. 11/18/09. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What is the first ring? second ring? third ring?
2. Who is the "ringmaster"?
3. What does Congress "juggle"?
4. What does the Judiciary balance the "wrongs" with?
5. Who keeps an eye on the governments performance?
7th grade.11/19/08. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Which empire was the largest?
2. Which empire followed the Ottoman Empire?
3. Which empire followed the Mongol Empire?
4. Which present day countries have the same name as their Empire?
5. Name at least one present day country that can be found in the 17 empires/kingdoms/colonies.
8th grade. 11/23/09. Please watch the attached link video and answer the following questions:
1. What does inauguration mean? (it is not in the video so look it up)
2. What does George Washington say at the end of the oath that he was not asked to repeat?
3. What city was he in when he took his oath? (it is not in the video so look it up)
4. Who was his Vice-President? (it is not in the video so look it up)
8th grade. 12/1/09. Please watch the attached link video and answer the following questions:
- Name four precedents President Washington created.
7th grade.12/03/08. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What did American sailors call Kamikaze pilots?
2. What was the destination of Kamikaze pilots?
3. By watching the video how did U.S. ships try to stop Kamikaze pilots?
6th grade.12/03/08. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. How many times bigger is the United States than India?
2. "India is the ________________________ most populous country in the world."
3. What group of workers make up the Vaisyas class?
4. What group of workers make up the Sudras class?
5. What is another word for dullets?
6. What did people of a higher class think would happen if you touched a dullet?
7. What did the Indian government go in 1949?
7th grade.12/07/08. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What is incendiary bombing?
2. Research and find at least 5 other wars in which firebombs were used.
3. Research to find how many Japanese civilians were killed by American firebombs.
6th grade. 12/07/08. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. About how many poeple live in the one square mile of Dharavi?
2. What percent of people from Mumbai live in slums?
3. What type of land, or soil, was Dharavi built on?
4. What is one rupee worth in U.S. dollars? (hint: write it as a fraction and simplify of course)
5. Why were some people upset about the movie?
6. What is an MBA? (look it up as it is not in the video)
8th grade. 12/8/09. Please watch the attached link video and explain 2 similarites and 2 differences between the Repulicans and Democrats concerning national defense.
6th grade.12/10/08. Please watch the attached link and:
1. Describe in detail how to perform a seated forward fold.
2. Where did yoga originate? (not in the video)
8th grade. 1/5/10. Please watch the attached link and write a detailed paragraph describing Thomas Jefferson and John Adams relationship. (minimum of 5 sentences)
click here
6th grade 1/5/10. Please use the attached Household Income chart to find the percent of households at the following income levels:
1. $250,000 and above
2. $100,000 - $249,999
3. $75,000 - $99,999
4. $50,000 - $74,999
5. $25,000 - $49,999
6. Below $25,000
7th grade. 1/06/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What is the largest urban metropolis in the world?
2. The _________________ and __________________ of these
islands differ considerably from that of ______________ ___________
3. What do the people of southern Japan believe about turtles?
8th grade. 1/19/10. Christmas comes late. (or early if you're really organized) Video would not load on the computer, so there is no homework tonight.
7th grade. 1/19/10.Origami. Good luck to everyone. Click the attached link and enjoy.
8th grade. 1/20/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Why couldn't pirates just sail into a port and buy weapons for battle?
2. What's a swivel cannon?
3. What's a cutlet?
4. What's a barefoot barb?
7th grade. 1/25/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What two groups fought at the Battle of Tours?
2. Why did the Moors feel Europe would be "easy prey"?
3. What did the Moors relieve the local monasteries of?
4. What did most of the Frankish soldiers have to trade for swords?
5. How many days did they wait before starting the battle?
6. What direction and to what country did the Moors retreat?
7. Who is credited as the "savior of Christianity in Europe"?
8. What happened to general Abdul Rahman al Ghafiqi?
8th grade. 1/25/10. Please read the attached link and answer the following question:
Why were U.S. forces successful in the "Battle of New Orleans"? Please give at least 4 examples .
7th grade. 1/29/10. Go to Mass!!!!!
7th grade. 2/02/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Why was the pendulum considered psychological torture?
2. Why do you think psychological torture can be worse than physical torture?
6th grade 2/9/10. Attached you will find the video we watched in class: "Ancient China from Dynasty to Destiny"
6th grade. 2/11/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following question:
1. Give 5 reasons why the Han Dynasty was successful. (explain each of your reasons)
8th grade. 2/16/10. Please watch the attached link and write about the following: (remember to do both assignments)
1. How many children go to work each day in the world? how many are under the age of 14?
2. How many children under the age of 18 work in the U.S. (look up, as it's not in the video)
3. Write a paragraph on how you can help the children of the world live a better life.
4. Write a paragraph on how your life is better and worse than the children in the video.
8th grade. 2/16/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions: (remember to do both assignments)
1. What two nationalities "made up the band"?
2. How much were they paid a day? Not counting whiskey.
3. How wide was the canal "from shore to shore"?
4. What two things did they do "the whole night through"?
5. In what city do they "still sing your song"?
7th grade. 2/18/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Lord make me an ________________________ of your peace.
2. Where there is hatred let me sow _________________.
3. Where there is darkness ______________________ .
4. For it is in giving that we _______________________ .
5. And it"s in pardoning that we are _________________________ .
6. And it's in ________________________ that we are born to eternal life.
7. Write a paragraph describing your favorite verse.
8th grade. 2/16/10. Please be thankful that the movie for tonight's online homework is lost in space. Read section 4 and be prepared for a grueling day of social studies. Rest my friend! Rest!!!
7th grade. 3/2/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. What did renaissance scholars turn their attention to "in the here and now"?
2. What subjects are studied in the "Humanities"?
3. What book did Machiavelli write?
4. What did he urge rulers to do concerning their "political goals"?
5. What are the 3 main qualities a prince should possess?
6. Does Machiavelli believe leaders should never act bad? Explain.
8th grade. 3/4/10. Please watch the attached link and write 10 examples how your life is different from southern plantation life.
7th grade. 3/10/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. Did you enjoy the scene?
2. Why or why not?
8th grade. 3/18/10. Please watch the attached link and be prepared to answer questions in class:
7th grade. 3/19/10. Attached is the Chapter 7 Exam review sheet
8th grade. 3/23/10. Andrew Jackson biography link:
8th grade. 3/23/10. Andrew Jackson and "The Bank" link:
8th grade. 3/23/10. "Trail of Tears " link:
6th grade. 3/24/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following question:
1. What temple did Pericles have built honoring Athena?
2. What rival city state did Pericles plan to "vanquish" in 431 B.C.?
3. What does "belicose" mean? (it is not in the video so look it up)
4. What was the strongest part of the Athenian military? and why did Pericles think it would win the war for Athens?
6th grade. 3/25/10. Attached is the Chapter 7 Exam review sheet.
7th Grade. 3/29. Watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1) "The second group of my ________________ is _______________________ against the foul
____________________ and _____________________ living of the ___________________, past and
__________________.
2) "Thru the laws of the Pope and the doctrines of men, consciences of the faithful have been
miserably _____________________ and _____________________."
3) Please give the definition of the two fill in the blanks found in question number 2.
4) What was the reason he gave for writing "too harshly"?
5) Does he recant his writings?
6th grade. 4/14/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1) What type of movie/story would Greeks categorize this as? (i.e. tragedy, comedy or drama)
2) Why would they categorize it as this?
7th grade. 4/16/10. Attached is the Chapter 8 Exam review sheet.
6th grade. 4/19/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. In what six things did Aristotle show "sheer intellectual power" and was "without parallel"?
2. What school did he attend?
3. Were most of Aristotle's works preserved?
4. What does metaphysics study?
5. "All ____________ by nature _______________ to know".
6. What do you think Aristotle meant when he said "nature produces nothing without a good reason for it"?
6th grade. 4/20/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the remaining questions on your video worksheet from class today:
8th grade. 4/22/10. Please answer the following questions. Check your answers from your book or a website:
1. Who won the Civil War?
2. What side had more soldiers killed in the war?
3. Name a Union (Northern) general.
4. Name a Confederate (Southern) general.
5. Name a battle of the Civil War.
6. Who was the President when the Civil War ended?
7. What was the capital city of the Confederacy (South)?
(i.e. Washington D.C. was the capital of the Union)
7th grade. 4/28/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the remaining questions on your video worksheet from class today:
7th grade. 4/29/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the remaining questions on your video worksheet from class today:
8th grade. 4/29/10. Attached is your Civil War journal assignment. It is due Tuesday, May 4th.
8th grade. 5/6/10.Please watch the following link and answer the questions:
1. He was the first in his family to do what?
2. When he was 19 what river did travel down?
3. What changed his "outlook on life"?
4. Why did Lincoln plunge into depression?
5. Who did Lincoln marry after moving to Springfield?
6. What was the value of all the slaves in the U.S. in 1860?
7. How did Stephen Douglass help Lincoln become a national figure?
6th grade. 5/6/10. Please answer the following questions. Check your answers from the internet:
1. Who is Rome named after?
2. Rome is located next to what river?
3. Name the seven hills found in Rome.
4. What sea (body of water) is Rome closest to?
8th grade homework. 5/8/09. (1 of 3) Please watch the attached link and answer the following
questions:
1) What did John Wilkes Booth's mother see in the fire? which she said was a vision.
2) What did his dad do for a living?
3) What did Booth say he "must have"?
4) What city made him feel "reborn"?
5) Who could not resist his "dark eyes and beautiful melodious voice"?
8th grade homework. 5/8/09. (2 of 3) Please watch the attached link and answer the following
questions:
1) What did Booth believe was "an evil"?
2) Whose trial did Booth stand guard at?
3) What did Abraham Lincoln do in the state of Maryland during the Civil War?
4) Why did he not join the Confederate Army?
5) Where did Booth meet with Confederate agents?
8th grade homework. 5/8/09. (3 of 3) Please watch the attached link and answer the following
questions:
1) What was John Wilkes Booth planning to do with Abraham Lincoln after he kidnapped him?
2) What "outraged" Booth on April 11th?
3) What happened on April 14th 1865?
4) Who killed John Wilkes Booth?
5) What were Booth's last words for his mother?
6th grade homework. 5/11/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1) Why were Roman horse troopers swords' longer than the average foot soldiers double edge sword?
2) How many pilum would each Roman soldier carry into battle?
3) What Greek weapon did the pilum resemble?
4) What's the maximum range of a pilum?
5) What happened to the pilum after impact?
6) What did impact make impossible for the enemy to do?
8th Grade homework 5/17. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. How many years did Jefferson Davis work to prevent the Civil War?
2. Please research and find out what job Jefferson Davis had right before becoming president of the Confederacy.
3. "All we ask is to be let ____________________ ."
4. What made the South "invicible"?
5. How many children did Jefferson and Varina Davis have?
6. On a statue erected by his wife and daughter it reads: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Why do you think his wife would put this on a monument to him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utzNY61SNc
6th Grade homework 5/17. Please watch the attached link and answer the following questions:
1. According to the "Rule of Law", who is above the law?
2. How does he compare futbol (soccer) to the rule of law?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gTjvcK8to
8th grade homework. 5/21/10. Please watch the attached link and answer the following
questions:
1. What did Stoneman's cavalry do?
2. Where did Virgil Caine live? Who did he and his wife see?
3. Why was Virgil upset with Robert E. Lee?
4. What side, Union or Confederate, did Virgil fight for?
5. What happened to his brother?
6. What do you think Virgil means when she says "I swear by the blood below my feet, you can't raise the Cane back up when it's in defeat"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnS9M03F-fA
8th grade homework. 5/24/10. Please watch the attached link and be prepared for a quiz tomorrow morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXPByMfw_tM
8th grade homework. 5/25/10. Please watch the attached link and be prepared for a quiz tomorrow morning.