Thursday, February 25, 2016

Week of February 29, 2016

Happy Leap Year Day.   Why do we have leap year?  How is this associated with Copernicus and the heliocentric view of the solar system?
Tuesday is Super Tuesday.  Why do we have off tomorrow?

17(3) Birth of the American Republic (557-563)
Identify five of the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (557) What was the point of Paine's Common Sense?
Look at map skills (558) Answer question #3.
What three men are pictured on page 559?  What did they write?
Read the three biographies on page 560. Answer the bold questions at the bottom of each reading.
Who is the focus of the picture on page 561?
What three branches are pictured on page 562?
Read the Bill of Rights (563) Why do you think they had to be added as amendments to the US Constitution?
Answer 4 of the 5 checkpoint questions OR #3-6 on page 563.





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