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GEORGE WASHINGTON HEROES OF HISTORY BOOK KEEP ALL OF YOUR PAPERS IN YOUR READING FOLDER. I WILL COLLECT THIS AND GIVE YOU A GRADE!!!!!
CHAPTER 1-4 VOCABULARY: Write the definitions to the following words on your own paper and put in your reading folder. BATTALION _______________________________________________________________________________ CANTERING________________________________________________________________________________ BREECHES__________________________________________________________________________________ DYSENTERY_______________________________________________________________________________ SCONES ________________________________________________________________________________ AVERSION _________________________________________________________________________________ ACTIVITIES _____1. George Washington was born in Pope's Creek. Take a virtual tour of his birthplace George Washington's birthplace _____2. Locate the following places on the map in the front of the book. Then mark these places on YOUR map. Keep it in your reading folder.: FERRY FARM, FREDERICKSBURG, MOUNT VERNON WILLIAMSBURG _____3. To help improve his penmanship, George copied pages from the book called Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Go to this link to read some of the rules. After reading the rules, pick 5 rules that could still be important today and write them in your best handwriting. Then pick 5 rules that would NOT apply to today's society and write those in your BEST handwriting. Put this paper in your READING folder. _____4. You read that many children died of various diseases. Find out what some of these diseases were. colonial_life
List 10 of these diseases:
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Lawrence also had tuberculosis. What kind of disease
is this? ____________________________________
George got smallpox. What is this disease?
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_____5.. George took his brother, Lawrence, to Barbados. Locate Barbados on a world map. How many days did it take for them to sail to Barabados? Read this story about Matlida who was a plantation slave that met George and Lawrence. Matilda _____6. Add the dates for the following to your TIMELINE. Keep this in your Reading Folder. Washington's birth Washington's trip to Barbados
CHAPTERS 5-7 VOCABULARY: ARMADA __________________________________________________________________________________ SENTRIES _________________________________________________________________________________ PANDEMONIUM ___________________________________________________________________________ ACTIVITIES: _____1. Locate NEW FRANCE on map.(or you may use your History book, pg. 143) Using the United States large map, color the area that the French claimed light blue. Lightly color the 13 colonies red. ____2. Read more about Fort Necessity. We will go here in the Spring. Mark Fort Necessity on your "Virginia/West Virginia" map. (Use the map in front of your book) Questions: Why was this event important to George Washington's military career?
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_____3. See how Fort Necessity was built. Question: Explain why the fort was not a good design or what was wrong with the location?
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_____4. Read more about Gen. Braddock's trail and death.Be sure to read the whole page!!!! We will also see his grave this spring Questions: How wide was Gen. Braddock's trail?________________________ Where did his troops bury Gen. Graddock after he died?_____________________________________________ _____5. See General Braddock's Grave. _____6. Mark the following on your timeline: LAWRENCE WASHINGTON'S DEATH BATTLE OF FORT NECESSITY GEN. BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT _____7. Learn more about Fort Necessity!!!!! Questions: _____8. Write the 4 reasons why the French and Indian War was so important to the history of our country.
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CHAPTER 8 VOCABULARY: SCHOONER_________________________________________________________________________________ SPOUSE____________________________________________________________________________________ VIA_______________________________________________________________________________________ SHILLINGS_________________________________________________________________________________ MAHOGANY________________________________________________________________________________ ACTIVITIES: _____1. Learn more about Mount Vernon. Read and do the virtual tour. _____2. See a picture of George and Martha's wedding. Read more about George. _____3. Take a fun quiz about Martha.. _____4. Now see if you could be a pioneer farmer. _____5. Play an archeology game and learn even MORE!!! _____6. Locate the following on your timeline: GEORGE & MARTHA'S WEDDING ( pg. 1759)
CHAPTER 9-10 FOR CHAPTER 9, BEGIN READING CHAPTER 10 IN HISTORY BOOK(pgs. 151-155) FOR CHAPTER 10, READ PGS. 156- 160 IN HISTORY BOOK VOCABULARY:
BOYCOTT_______________________________________________________________________________
MILITIA_____________________________________________________________________________________
CONVENTION_______________________________________________________________________________ PATRIOT __________________________________________________________________________________ LOYALIST or TORIES_________________________________________________________________________ ACTIVITIES: _____1. Read an actual newspaper article telling about the BOSTON MASSACRE and then read the following play. QUESTIONS: Who is the King of England during this time?_____________________________________________________ Why did England need tax money from the Colonists?______________________________________________ What was the Stamp Act?______________________________________________________________________ Who was the the African American patriot that was killed during the Boston Massacre?__________________ During the Boston Tea Party, the colonist were dressed as _________________________________. _____2. See a picture of PATRICK HENRY and read his famous speech. Write the famous line that was in his speech:_______________________________________________________ _____3. Check out more information about the Second Continental Congress. Where was the first shot of the Revelutionary War fired?____________________________ What were the two important decisions that the 2nd Continental Congress had to make? 1._____________________________________________________________________________ 2._____________________________________________________________________________
CHAPTER 11-12 VOCABULARY:
LIBERATE:_________________________________________________________________________________
BARRACKS:________________________________________________________________________________
HESSIANS:__________________________________________________________________________________
SCAPEGOAT:________________________________________________________________________________
_____1. Read more about the BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill?______________________________________________________ _____2. Watch a movie about PAUL REVERE'S RIDE _____3. Read a poem about PAUL REVERE _____4. See pictures of Fort Ticonderoga. Name the Patriots that took Fort Ticonderoga from the British?_________________________________________ _____5. Read more about the military uniforms that were worn. What did the British leave behind at Fort Ticonderoga that the Continental army was able to use?_________________ ______6. Do you think that God help Washington during the battle of DORCHESTER HEIGHTS?
Explain your
answer:_________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______7.Read more about the Declaration of Independence. _______________________was the President of the Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was signed on ___________________________________________. What could have happened to the signers of the Declaration if they had been caught?____________________________
______8. See the Liberty Bell
. The Liberty Bell is located in__________________________.On the bell are
written these words from the Bible(see history book pg. 161): Leviticus
25:10_______________________________________
_____ Locate the following on your timeline: PATSY'S DEATH
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