Homework Sept. 21-25

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 1. Read SOTW ch.7-8. Answer the following questions:

Chapter 7

Tobacco--And Unwilling Colonists

  1. Were the English able to find gold or jewels in Virginia?
  2. What did John Rolfe plant in Virginia?
  3. What did the young men of England think about smoking?
  4. What did King James think about smoking?
  5. What did the people of England think about the new type of tobacco?
  6. Name three of the activities that made growing tobacco such hard work.
  7. At first whom did the tobacco farmers hire to work in their fields?
  8. What did the indentured servants get in exchange for six years' work?
  9. Whom did the Jamestown colonists start using to work on their farms in 1619?
  10. Who brought the slaves to the New World?
  11. What do we call the slave trade that went from Africa to Central America, to Europe, and back to Africa again?

Queen Nzinga of Angola
  1. Besides the Dutch, what other European nation had been taking slaves from the west coast of Africa?
  2. Who was Nzinga?
  3. Why were the Portuguese friendly to the African kings who lived near the coast?
  4. How did the Portuguese change their methods during the reign of Nzinga's father?
  5. What did Nzinga's brother Mbandi do as soon as he became king?
  6. After Nzinga's brother Mbandi became king and fought the Portuguese for a few years, what did he ask Nzinga to do?
  7. When the Portuguese leader tried to make Nzinga sit on the floor for their meeting, what did Nzinga do?
  8. Did the peace treaty with the Portuguese last?
  9. What happened to Mbandi?
  10. What did Nzinga spend the rest of her life doing?
  11. What happened after Nzinga's death?
Chapter 8

The Persian Puzzle

Fill in the blanks to create a list of nations that have occupied this part of the world.
  1. A_ _ yr_ _
  2. Ba_ _lo_
  3. P_r_ _a
  4. S_ _euc_ _s
  5. Pa_ _ _ia_ _
  6. S_ _sa_ _ds
  7. I_ _am_ _ Empire
  8. Gh_ _na_ _d Turks
  9. _ong_ _s
  10. Sa_a_ _ds
  11. A_ _as the _ _ah


The Ottoman Turks

  1. When the Ottoman Empire grew weaker, which great and cruel ruler rescued it?
  2. Which group of people had founded the Ottoman Empire?
  3. What two great empires of the Middle East were ruled by Turks?
  4. What two great citied did the Ottoman Turks conquer?
  5. Why did the kings of Europe begin to get nervous?
  6. What was the condition of the empire when Murad came to the throne?
  7. How old was Murad when the Ottoman army rebelled?
  8. What did Murad do to Rejeb after he found that Rejeb was the ringleader of a revolt?
  9. How did Murad keep rebels from forming new plans?
  10. Once Murad had frightened his people into obeying him, what did he set out to do?

2. Read the first half of Part 2 of Wonder Struck.


3. Work the Direct Object Handout given at the table.


4. Write a journal entry with at least seven sentences: choose three of your friends to describe. What do they look like? What do they like to do? Why do you like to be friends with them?










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