Bellwork: Tuesday, 8/26/14 Answer the question in your notebook: Why study history?

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1 Bellwork: Tuesday, 8/26/14 Answer the question in your notebook: Why study history? Each group will be assigned a section of the handout to read. Instructions for Reader-Writer- Speaker Response Triads: You and your group will take on the roles of 1. Reader-reads the section aloud to group members 2. Writer (aka note taker) 3. Speaker - will share with class your answers and summary.

2 Bellwork 8/27/14 1. Describe the cartoon. (what are people doing? Are there any words or phrases? Facial expressions? Props? 2. Explain why the lady is meeting a man with a loan application after the kid shows her a shopping list? What might be some of the items on the kids' shopping list? 3. What is the message of this cartoon? What happens when someone fills out a loan application?

3 Bellwork:8/29/14 1. What do the two individuals standing represent?

4 Friday, assignment 8/29/14 You and a partner will read the chapter on the Slavery and Empancipation. Take notes as you read: for each subtitled section. Find the main idea, and supporting details that can answer the following questions to your section: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? You will use this information to create a cause and effect chart on Monday.

5 Alternate Bellwork for week 9/2-9/5...I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do...order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free 1. Who is being set free with this order?

6 Bellwork 9/2/14 Complete the statements next to the standing figures. 1. "The as it was" 2. "This is a government." 3. "The cause." 4. What is the underlying theme of these statements?

7 Bellwork Wed 9/3/14 Worse Than Slavery was in the pages of Harper s Weekly on October 24, Thomas Nast was the cartoonist. How did the cartoonist feel about the way freed blacks were treated after the Civil War?

8 Worse Than Slavery was in the pages of Harper s Weekly on October 24, Thomas Nast was the cartoonist.

9 Bellwork, Thursday, 9/4/14 Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. What is the purpose of this amendment? 13th Amendment 1. In which situations is involuntary servitude allowed? 2. What kind of power could Congress use to enforce the article? 3. Why did there need to be a constitutional amendment to abolish slaves after the North won the Civil War?

10 U.S. History, bellwork: 9/5/14 Journaling: This means it's a free write about your beliefs, ideas, experience, and thoughts. There is no right or wrong, there is did it or did not do it. Describe a time in your life in which you experienced discrimination of some kind. (religion, sex, ethnicity, skin color, height, weight, age, economic status, ability,etc. )

11 1. Identify the people and objects in the cartoon. 2. Why is the soccer player beaten up and full of holes? What is the guy on the far left referring to? 3. What is the link between a border bill and Brazil soccer? What is the meaning of this cartoon?