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)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
Today's Trivia: (Put the answer in your warm up document; 1 point for correct answer)
Born on this date in 1817, this man's autobiography became an immediate best seller and exposed many to the horrors of slavery.
7th Grade:
Q1: What role did the electoral college play in George Washington's election to the presidency?
Q2: What precedent did Washington and Cngress establish regarding the executive branch?
Q3: What city served as the first capital of the U.S.?
8th Grade:
Read the statements below and determine what is “speaking”.
1. “I am a production system in which workers stay in one place and do
one job in making a product.” What am I?
2. “I was a period when people were afraid Communists would gain power
in the United States.” What am I?
3. “I was a scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepted
bribes in exchange for allowing oil companies special favors.” What am
I?
4. “I was a movement in which large numbers of African Americans
moved from the South to the North to find work.” What am I?
5. “I was a period when many African American artists, such as Langston
Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, flourished.” What am I?
