There will be no new Vocab terms this week. Instead, we will be reviewing all previous Chapter 1 terms to prepare for a chapter test! Remember, summative assessments are worth 80% (4/5) of your grade!
Category: American Government
New Monday-Friday routine
Hello everyone!
Starting next week, my class schedule will usually be as follows.
Monday– Vocab Monday (words for the week)
Tuesday– Text Tuesday (Read the material)
Wednesday– Write it Wednesday (Notes, Thinking Maps)
Thursday – Team Thursday (Student engagement activities)
Friday – Find out Friday (Summative assessment test/quiz)
Please see Mr. B for any questions!
Ch. 1 Exam coming up
We will be finishing up Chapter 1 this week and expect a full chapter 1 exam early next week! Start studying and reviewing now.
Gov’t 1.5 Vocab
Government 1.5 will be going in the middle of this week! Here’s the Vocab! Read, write, speak, and describe them.
42. Interfere: to get involved
43. Century: 100 years
44. Decade: 10 years
45. Millennium: 1000 years
46. Legal documents: important signed papers
47. Debt: you owe someone money
48. Stamp Act: taxes on all papers, newspapers, etc.
49. Gradually: step by step
50. Minutemen: a group of armed men who fought in the Revolutionary War.
51. Loyalists: colonists who were still loyal to England and the King
52. Patriots: colonists who were opposed to England and the King
53. Support: help or aid
54. Declaration of Independence: letter written by Thomas Jefferson and sent to King George saying that America is now independent.
55. Liberty: freedom
56. Grievances: complaints
57. Deny: refuse
58 Surrender: Give up
Gov 1.4 Vocab
31. pull factors: things that attract you to a country
32. push factors: things that make you leave a country
33. Pilgrims: the first English people who came to America in 1620
34. Contract: agreement
35. loyal: friendly
36. governor: ruler
37. strict: serious or not changing