Thirty Years' War

Write quality summaries of lessons 56 and 57 on a history card.  Remember the basic questions to answer are who? what? where? when? why? and how?

Read lesson 58 carefully.  Make a written list or chart of the dates of the main events of the Thirty Years' War.  Paraphrase each main event beside its date.

Also write a history card to briefly summarize lesson 58.

Activity Choice

Choose one of the following activities and bring to class to share.

1) In a few paragraphs, write significant highlights of Henry Hudson's adventures.  As you near the end of the tale, rather than explain what we know (or don't know), "finish" the story using your imagination to explain his fate.  (Write this part in a different color ink.)  Then, switch ink colors again and write still another possibility.  And then once more, with another color, write one last possibility of what happened to Henry Hudson.

2) Visit the library or use the internet with a parent's help to read more about the lives, customs, and history of the Huron (or Wyandot) Indians.  Because written reports sometimes interfere with the pure pleasure of reading and learning, do NOT WRITE a report.  Instead, read and learn, but prepare to orally articulate the most interesting things you learned about these Indians.  You may use note cards or visual aids to prompt your memory.  Any notes you make should be short trigger words or phrases that are your own.

No further lesson is assigned, as I was thinking in class that today was Tuesday, so only work to give excellent effort and attention on one of the above choices.

Review, Quiz, and Map

Besides the people or topics reviewed in class, here are some others to review that will be represented on the quiz:  Hernan Cortes, Shah Jahan, Mary I (Tudor), Katharina von Bota, Ivan the Terrible, Ulrich Zwingli, and Sir Francis Drake.  When you review people, note what particular deeds they accomplished or that have given them a place in history.

Also review the occurrences surrounding the following:  the Treaty of Edinburgh, Kepler's Laws, Phillip II & the Duke of Alba, Tokugawa (Japan), Don Quixote, Australia, and Jamestown.

Complete the map of Australia by labeling the following:

States:  Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia

Territories:  Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory (within South Wales)

Capital City:  Canberra

Mainland State Capitals:  Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide

Deserts:  Great Sandy, Gibson, Great Victoria, Simpson

Plains:  Nullarbor Plain

Mountains:  Great Dividing Range

Bodies of Water:  Timor Sea, Arafura Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea, Great Australian Bight, Darling River, Murray River, Lake Eyre

Landmarks:  Uluru (1,142 feet high), Great Barrier Reef

Australian Aborigines

1) Before reading the next lesson, locate and label, on your map received in class on Friday, the following    features of Japan:

Islands:  Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.

Cities:  Tokyo, Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Nagasaki.

Mountains:  Mt. Fuji (12, 388 ft.)

Bodies of Water:  Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, and Sea of Okhotsk.

Your map should be easy to read.  You will file it under "Asia: Japan."

2) Read lesson 53 about the Australian Aborigines and write a summary card for this lesson.

3) Choose 3 of the following marsupials found in Australia about which to write a brief description of the uniqueness of each animal.  Include a small picture if possible of each animal you chose beside its name and description.

a. bandicoots   b. kangaroos   c. koalas   d. ningauis   e. wallabies   f. wombats
g. Tasmanian devils

Wallaby

Age of Reason

Write a summary card for lesson 50, and then read lesson 51 and write its summary card also.

Review the following names and terms in preparation for a review game in class on Friday:

Sundiata, Erasmus, Tierra del Fuego, Loyola, d'Albret, Cosimo, Copernicus, canton, Qizilbash, Cape of Strorms, Barbarossa, Titian, Martin Luther, armada, Babur, Francis Bacon, Leonardo, ninja, Walter Raleigh, and Elizabeth.

Quiz and Class Prep.

Write 2 questions from each week studied, making a 32 question quiz.  Write your answers on a separate page that is your answer key.  Try to write difficult questions that are meaningful to the knowledge of the lesson.  In other words, do not write questions that would be considered trivia.

Bring to class 1 of the following:

a) a picture of a ninja and their weaponry

b) a list of the following Japanese words and what they mean:  shuriken, bo, ninja-ken, katana, wakizashi, shikoro ken.

c) a report about the most famous writer of bunraku plays (of Japan), Chikamatsu Monzaemon.  Be sure to cite the sources used for the information of your report at the bottom of the page.  Be sure all the words of the report are your own words re-explaining what you learned.