Chase The History

Info Nugget: Maintain: Latin- Manu (like mano) means hand, while tenere (like tener) means to have. To have in hand or to have a hand on something means that it is unchanged.

Homework: Only first period doesn’t have homework. There are 3 options:

1) To read about Pocahontas and ask 14 questions with 4 answered in Pocahontas’ voice, 4 in John Smith’s voice, and 10 in your own voice of the present day students. There will be overlapping of the questions.

2) Read about Samuel Adams and write 3-5 paragraphs about a letter to the colonists to join the Revolution against Britain.

3) Read about Patrick Henry and then create a 1 minute speech to give tomorrow about something you feel passionately about.

Only periods 3-7 have this as homework.

Info Nugget: Pain- Latin. Peona is Latin for penalty or punishment. The belief used to be that if you were in pain that you were being punished for something that you did wrong.

Homework: Only first period had homework. There are 3 options:

1) To read about Pocahontas and ask 14 questions with 4 answered in Pocahontas’ voice, 4 in John Smith’s voice, and 10 in your own voice of the present day students. There will be overlapping of the questions.

2) Read about Samuel Adams and write 3-5 paragraphs about a letter to the colonists to join the Revolution against Britain.

3) Read about Patrick Henry and then create a 1 minute speech to give tomorrow about something you feel passionately about.

Periods 3-7 will do this assignment tomorrow.

Info Nugget: Phoney- American. Forney made cheap brass rings as jewelry and shined them up to look like gold. Thus, anything that is fake is forney or phoney.

Homework: Worksheet with test prep questions.

Info Nugget: Pop Goes the Weasel– Olde English expression. “Weasel skin” was a slang term for a wallet. Popping the weasel means closing the wallet after spending money.

“Half a pound of tuppeny rice,

Half a pound of treacle.

That’s the way the money goes,

Pop! goes the weasel”

Homework: Study for Thursday’s test!

No homework today except to study for Thursday’s test.

Info Nugget: “Private” (in the military): Olde English- A person who served in the military as an officer and for life, was considered a “Public citizen,” while a drafted person did not wish to continue in the military, so he kept his “Private citizen” status.

Homework: All classes had CNN except for first and 6th periods. 50 states Friday!

Worksheet due Monday.

Info Nugget: “Pyrrhic Victory” Greek- King Pyrrhus of Epirus was the king to the north of Greece. When he went to the Italian peninsula to deal with the upstart Romans, he brought 25,000 men. He eventually defeated them, but lost so many men that he had to withdraw. Thus, a victory that is so costly that it was not worth fighting is called a Pyrrhic Victory (This also seems to happen any time I argue with my wife and “win.”)

Homework: Study the 50 states.

Info Nugget: Porcelain: French origin- meaning “pig-like.” When the French first saw plates from China, they were called “China” (where it was from) or “Porcelain” because it reminded them of the inside of a porcelain shell. It was actually the cowrie shell, but it had the nickname porcelain because the outside of the shell was ugly- like the ridges on the back of a pig.

Homework: Study the 50 states! The test is Friday!

Info Nugget: “Pup tent”: American- Union troops were issued very small tents to share in the Civil War. When the troops saw them, one crawled out and started barking, commenting that these tents were onlly big enough to fit a puppy- thus “pup tent.”

Homework: “The English Colonies” worksheet if it was not finished in the 25 minutes that the student was given in class.