7th+Grade+U.S.+History

7th Grade United States History

Current Event are due the first Friday of every month. Click on the following link to download the rubric.

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Unit 1: The Early Americans
 * PowerPoints Presentations, Worksheets, and/or notes. Unit was taught in the 6th grade. We just reviewed it in the beginning of the year.**

Unit 2: Explorers and Conquistadors
 * PowerPoints Presentations, Worksheets, and/or notes. Unit was taught in the 6th grade. We just reviewed it in the beginning of the year.**

Unit 3: The 13 colonies

Unit 4: The American Revolution

Unit 5: Articles of Confederation and The United States Constitution

Unit 6: The Birth of a New Nation

Unit 7: A New National Identity
 * Each student will be assigned a Founding Father to create and design a PowerPoint Presentation on. The directions are in the attached document. You must print out your final presentation or email it, to Mr. Kanowitz. If you have any questions on how to use PowerPoint please ask. *Reminder - We are looking for solid information rather than animation, and crazy designs.**
 * Complete and hand in the graphic organizer on the New National Identity**.[[file:New National Identity GO.doc]]

Unit 8: The Era of Jackson and The Indian Removal Act

Unit 9: Western Expansion


 * For this assignment, each student will complete 5 out of 9 short-answer __document based questions__ on Manifest Destiny. In order to place the answers electronically, each student will have to select a document to complete by COPYING the selected document and questions and PASTING it on a separate blank document in Microsoft Word. After one document is copied and pasted, repeat these instructions 4 more times. Please make sure a full heading is on the paper, and all the documents and questions are corrected labeled. All answers MUST be in //ITALICS// font - 12 pt: Times New Roman. Please look at the rubric to make sure you understand everything before starting.**

Unit 10: North and South (Industrial Revolution vs. Plantations and Slavery)