More information on the Mexican American War

http://www.nps.gov/archive/fosc/mexican.htm - a good site -Fort Scott Historic Site



http://ns3.azteca.net/aztec/war/Mexican-American-War.html - a high school student's essay on the causes of the war



http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html - easy to understand site... offers good info.

Mexican-American War - supplementary from class work today

http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html - this interactive website gives excellent information to support what the documentary showed in class today...

Major ideas:

Manifest Destiny
Imperialism
Expansionism

Go through this website and post your thoughts about this war... what do you think? Was it a just war? Which side do you feel sympathetic toward and why?

Reminders for next week

Notebook checks begin on Monday and will go through Friday- both reading and writing sourcebooks - make sure you have them in class until they have both been checked...
start date will be 4/16 -
make sure to have a complete and detailed table of contents, titled and dated pages and good notes that show you do work in class and continue thinking about work outside of class.

There is a half day on Monday, 6/2. You will be dismissed at 12:00 - (after 4th period)

There is no school on Thursday, 6/5. It is Brooklyn/Queens Day - Enjoy the day (finish last minute work on your blogs)

Exit projects are due on Friday, 6/6

Looking to the future -
Blog presentations begin the week of 6/9 and will go on until they are done... most likely Friday if not Monday

Portfolio work will be going on as well

We have another half day on Thursday, 6/12 when you will be dismissed at 12:00 again.

Class Standards for the year...

We have been talking about the standards all year and as we begin to wind down it is a reflecting time...

Please review the following link to the standards for 7th grade... (I like this website because it makes the standards a little easier to understand)

There are 4 main standards, each with several sub-standards and performance indicators (things you could show you can do)...

Remember 7th grade isn't a commencement year, so if you aren't at a 3 or higher yet on all of them, it's not a big deal... just means you need to continue to work on them next year.

We will be looking at these standards next week - really working on them and reflecting about them...

look at them now and post any thoughts you have on the work we have done this year.

ELA Standards

http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=18691&lev=strand - reading strand

http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=18690&lev=strand - writing strand

http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=18693&lev=strand - Listening strand

http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=18692&lev=strand - speaking strand

Social Studies Standards
http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=9&lev=sn - US and NY History

http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=21&lev=sn - geography

http://www.nylearns.org/standards/standard_tree.asp?StandardID=30&lev=sn - government

Blog Invitations

Make sure I have been invited as an author not a reader...



If you don't see my name on the sidebar of contributors on your blog, then I haven't been invited. I am missing 4 or 5 people I think.



Please see me if you are one of these people.

ah...

I still don't get how do you made a glossary. So, do you type the important words and definition from ur blog post and make a glossary of what it mean?
whoever answer my question thanx
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How to Cite...This is a great cite from Locust Valley High School

http://www.lvcsd.k12.ny.us/uploaded/Library_Media/Research_Guide_2007-2008_ed_7_formatted.pdf

This whole research guide is very informative.