French and Indian War

Step 1:
Watch this BrainPop video.

If you need to sign in to BrainPop, the username is gillispie and the password is solar.

Step 2: 
Work with a group of 3-4 people. Make a wise choice about the people you choose to work with: Are you working with people who will help you do your best work and use your time wisely?

Make a poster, newspaper article, paragraph or other product of your choice that answers all of the questions from the French & Indian War Pre-Test correctly.

Here are the questions:

In the French and Indian War, who was fighting against whom?

What were they fighting about?

Who won?

What happened as a result?

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

What happened as a result?

If you don't know the answers to the questions, choose one or more of the following:

Read pages 229 and 230 in your social studies textbook.

Read the information on this website.

Re-watch the BrainPop video.

Ask someone in your group.

If you finish before others are done, add images related to the French and Indian War and the Proclamation of 1763 to your product.

Persuasive Writing

How do you learn to write persuasively?

You start by reading examples of persuasive writing to see how it is done!

Read these two articles:

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As you read them, pay attention to what the author is doing as a writer to convince you of the argument he or she is making.

Take notes, if you find that helpful.

Be prepared for a group discussion on what we can learn from these two articles to improve our persuasive writing.

Today's Writing Assignment

Hello Authors!

Your challenge for today is to write the section of your informational text that deals with the southern colonies. Use your writer's checklist, and all of the lessons and discussions we've had about informational writing to guide you.

Your draft should include:
-name, number, and date
-word count
-at least one powerful sentence type
-at least two of the following vocabulary terms:
plantation, legislature, debtor, refuge, indigo, overseer, spiritual, tidewater, backcountry

In your notes, we did not include a section on slavery. Do you think this is an important aspect of the southern colonies? If so, what do you think is the best way to present the information to your readers?

When you finish, print one copy of your draft and turn it in to the Writing bin.

If there is still time, you may choose to write anything you like or work on writing for our Gillispie News project: Write a commercial or improve the writing of any piece you have already written. This is still writing time, not rehearsal time.