7th Grade
Assignments/Projects/Extra Credit
Chapter 1-5, 6-10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Final Exam
Chapter 11
Assignment Sheet
Review Sheet
PowerPoint Presentation
Document Based Questions/ Primary Source Assignment #11
Projects/ Activities:
Invention Time Line
Interviewing a traveler on a Mississippi Steamboat
Lowell Factories
Accepting An Invitation
Weekly Salaries
Moses Brown is Coming to Town
Working at a Textile Mil
Webster Dictionary of a Textile Mill
Portrayal of Daniel Webster
The George Washington of Latin America
Educational Photographs:
Moses Brown
Samuel Slater
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Dewitt Clinton
James Monroe
Francis Cabot Lowell
Simon Bolivar
Robert Fulton's Steamboat, Clermont
Robert Fulton
Lowell Model Community
Slater's Mill
Industrial Farm/Cotton Gin
Antique Cotton Gin
Operations of Cotton Gin
Corduroy Road
Educational Videos:
WMHT- Working at a Lowell Mill
WMHT- Industrial Revolution
Chapter 12
Assignment Sheet
Review Sheet
PowerPoint Presentation
Document Based Questions/ Primary Source Assignment #12
Projects/ Activities:
Painting of the Trail of Tears
Researching Campaign Symbols
Counting Votes
Log Cabin Campaign
The Statue of Old Andrew Jackson
Log Cabin Recipes:
Mulled Apple Cider
Educational Photographs:
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren's House in Kinderhook, New York
John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
William Harrison
Chief Osceola
Educational Videos:
WMHT- Jacksonian Democracy
WMHT- Legacy of a Autocratic Leader
Chapter 13
Assignment Sheet
Review Sheet
PowerPoint Presentation
Document Based Questions/ Primary Source Assignment #13
13 Days of Siege
Projects/ Activities:
Pioneer Covered Wagon Project
What to Pack
Oregon Trail Sensory Essay
The Alamo: Building a Scale Model
Talk like a Texan
The People of the Alamo
Building the Alamo
Forty-Niners Recipe:
California Smoothie
Texans Recipe:
Corn Dodgers
Texas Chili
Dutch Oven Scalloped Potatoes
Filbert Crescents
Educational Photographs:
Alamo-San Antonio, Texas
Sam Houston
John Sutter
Brigham Young
Mountain Men
William B. Travis
Joseph Smith
James K. Polk
General Santa Anna
Sutter's Mill
Interactive Educational Websites:
American Experience- Gold Rush, Strike It Rich
Gold Rush- Stories of the Lure & Legacy
Oregon Trail- Interactive Map
Oregon Trail- Fantastic Facts
Movie:
The Alamo
WMHT- The American Experience: Remember the Alamo
WMHT-Westward Expansion: Old Texas & Trail Drives
WMHT-Westward Expansion: Mountain Men & Gold Seekers
WMHT-Westward Expansion: Covered Wagons & Westward Expansion
Chapter 14
Assignment Sheet
Review Sheet
PowerPoint Presentation
Document Based Questions/ Primary Source Assignment #14
Projects/ Activities:
Social Groups of the Southern Society in the Mid-1800s
Instructional Manual for the Cotton Gin
Factories: Then & Now
Plantation Recipes:
Plantation-Baked Corn Bread
Sweetest Potato Pie
Educational Films:
WMHT- The Unfinished Nation: Worlds Apart
WMHT- The Unfinished Nation: Master & Slave
Chapter 15
Assignment Sheet
Review Sheet
PowerPoint Presentation
Document Based Questions/ Primary Source Assignment #15
Directions for the following Projects/ Activities:
Educational Websites:
The Underground Railroad: Escape from Slavery
Myths of the Underground Railroad
Whispers of Angels: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Following the Drinking Gourd: A Cultural History
Revolutionary Online Simulation: Mission 2- Flight to Freedom
Educational Films:
WMHT- Whispers of Angels: The Story about the Underground Railroad
Final Exam
The Exam will be administered in Social Studies class over two periods.
Structure of the Exam
Part I, II, III
40 Multiple Choice Questions
The questions will consist of their knowledge obtained from 7th Grade Social Studies that will include comprehension of reading passages, charts,
tables, historical qoutes & political cartoons.
Review For Exam:
Study Guide
Essay Writing: Hamburger Review
NYS Test Taking Strageties
Worksheet on DBQ Strageties
Educational Film:
WMHT- Just the Facts: Fifty Great Years in American History