Click on the following link and learn about this day in history:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Today's Trivia: (Put the answer in your warm up document; 1 point for correct answer)
7th:
Read the statements below and determine who or what is “speaking.”
1. “I was elected president of the Constitutional Convention. Who am I?”
2. “I prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful. What am I?”
3. “I settled the disagreement over representation between the large states and the small states. What am I?”
4. “I am the system of sharing power between a central government and the states that make up a country. What am I?”
You are a newspaper editor in Philadelphia. During colonial rule, officials sometimes closed down your newspaper because you had criticized the governor. Now you are one of many Americans who want to be sure the new Constitution will guarantee individual rights. You are writing an editorial in your paper explaining what you want. What rights would you want the Constitution to protect?
8th:
Indicate whether each sentence below is TRUE or FALSE. If the sentence is false, change the underlined word to make the sentence true.
1. Austria-Hungary agreed to a ceasefire and armistice, or truce, that ended the war on November 11, 1918.
2. American soldiers began fighting in Europe in 1917, three years after the war started.
3. The Allied Expeditionary Force was a force made up of American soldiers.
4. The Germans transferred troops to the western front after Russia dropped out of the war.
Your older brother was drafted in 1917 and sent to fight on the western front in Europe. He has written home about the terrible conditions in the trenches and the horror of seeing men killed in battle. Now the war is over. You read in the newspaper that a peace treaty is being negotiated in Paris, France. What do you hope the peace treaty will say?
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Today's Trivia: (Put the answer in your warm up document; 1 point for correct answer)
On this date in 1883,the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by ____________ _______________, begins service at Roselle, NJ.
7th:
Read the statements below and determine who or what is “speaking.”
1. “I was elected president of the Constitutional Convention. Who am I?”
2. “I prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful. What am I?”
3. “I settled the disagreement over representation between the large states and the small states. What am I?”
4. “I am the system of sharing power between a central government and the states that make up a country. What am I?”
You are a newspaper editor in Philadelphia. During colonial rule, officials sometimes closed down your newspaper because you had criticized the governor. Now you are one of many Americans who want to be sure the new Constitution will guarantee individual rights. You are writing an editorial in your paper explaining what you want. What rights would you want the Constitution to protect?
8th:
Indicate whether each sentence below is TRUE or FALSE. If the sentence is false, change the underlined word to make the sentence true.
1. Austria-Hungary agreed to a ceasefire and armistice, or truce, that ended the war on November 11, 1918.
2. American soldiers began fighting in Europe in 1917, three years after the war started.
3. The Allied Expeditionary Force was a force made up of American soldiers.
4. The Germans transferred troops to the western front after Russia dropped out of the war.
Your older brother was drafted in 1917 and sent to fight on the western front in Europe. He has written home about the terrible conditions in the trenches and the horror of seeing men killed in battle. Now the war is over. You read in the newspaper that a peace treaty is being negotiated in Paris, France. What do you hope the peace treaty will say?
