Homework - 5/7

NOTE: Students are to always have their current independent reading book with them in school. They should be reading for 20 minutes daily in their independent reading book. Language Arts Note: Have L.A. journal in class with you all the time. Assigned today: None Previously assigned/still due: None Math Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th: None 8th: None Note: When needed, you can always get grid paper from the internet. Social Studies Assigned today: Due Monday, 5/11, read pp. 107-115 of The New Nation. Answer questions on handout (1-6). Previously Assigned/still due: None Science Assigned today: None Previously Assigned/still due: None Spanish Assigned today: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None Previously Assigned/still due: 7th Grade: None 8th Grade: None

8th Grade Project

• Write something everyday in your journal (except weekends, unless otherwise arranged with advisor): entries should be dated and focused on how your independent project is going, your feelings about it, challenges, successes.
• Journals are turned in every Friday morning (onto Marc's table). If we do not have school on Friday, they are turned in at the end of the day on Thursday.

Materials Needed for Homework to be Taken Home:

• 8th grade - L.A. journal (for project entry)
• Social Studies - The New Nation book or handout
• Social Studies - Questions handout

Questions based on Reading: The New Nation, pp. 107-115 1. What is the advantage of "interchangeable parts" - like the design of the Whitney musket (yes, the same Eli Whitney of cotton gin fame)? 2. How did the treatment of workers in Mr. Francis Lowell's mill differ from other textile mills.? 3. In your own words, what is meant by a "market revolution"? 4. Describe what a "macadam road" was. 5. Describe the path of the Erie Canal. 6. How did the Erie Canal help make New York City the country's largest city?