For the Week of November 16 through 20

 1. Read chapters 23 and 24 of Story to the World.

2. Answer the following questions:

Chapter 23 The New Country

The American Constitution

1. How many American colonies became states?
2. What is a constitution?
3. The the states started writing constitutions, they disagreed over basic issues. Name two.
4. Who were the American leaders who saw that America was heading toward trouble?
5. What is a federal government?
6. Many Americans were afraid of federal government. What were they afraid might happen if they had a federal government?
7. In which city did the "Constitutional Convention" take place?
8. The delegates wanted to make sure that the new Constitution would give the United States of America the power to act together--but also act separately. What plan did they come up with?
9. What was the name of each of the "houses" of government?
10. Congress would be the "legislative" part of the new federal government. What is the one duty of this legislative branch of the government?
11. The President has the power to veto any of the laws of Congress. What does this mean?
12. What branch of government does the President belong to?
13. What is the third branch of government? Who makes up this third branch?
14. What was the name of the document in which the delegates wrote down the rules of government?
15. How many states needed to accept, or ratify,  the Constitution?
16. Patrick Henry, along with other Americans, wanted a Bill of Rights. What was this Bill?
17. What was one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights?

Read this book and draw pictures for Obama, Trump, and Biden. 

The First American President

1. What did George Washington want to do after the American War for Independence?
2. Why did the delegates want George Washington to be the leader of the new nation?
3. What was the result of the first presidential election, in 1789?
4. Washington hoped for a quiet ride to New York. Did he get a quiet ride?
5. How many men did Washington choose to help him run the country? What were they called?
6. What are the four titles these men held?
7. Who was Washington's vide-president?
8. Between what two states would the new capital city of the country lie?
9. What title did Washington choose for himself?
10. After his terms as President, what did Washington do?

Chapter 24 Sailing South

Captain Cook Reaches Botany Bay

1. What scientific expedition had the English government hired Captain Cook to make?
2. Had Captain Cook done much sailing in his life?
3. Venus was interesting. But was was even more interesting to Cook as he was beginning his voyage?
4. Why were Cook's men excited about the trip to Tahiti?
5. What was Cook's secret mission?
6. Cook went in search of the Great Southern Continent. What were the two islands that he first sailed around?
7. When Cook finally found the Great Southern Continent, he didn't realize that he had discovered it. What did he name the bay in which he first landed?
8. What did Cook find the next year, when he went on his second voyage?
9. What was Cook searching for on his third voyage?
10. Why were the Hawaiians treating Cook and his men so well?
11. The Cook and his men returned to Hawaii to repair their ship, they found a very different welcome. What was it like?
12. What happened to Cook?

The Convict Settlement

1. When England lost the American colonies, where did they first send their prisoners?
2. What were the condition like inside these "hulks"?
3. As they were running out of room on the "hulks," the English remembered another place they might send their prisoners. What place did they remember?
4. What were some of the fears people had about life in Australia?
5. Why did the fist governor, Arthur Phillip, want to find somewhere other than Botany Bay to settle?
6. How did Arthur Phillip get around the fact that prison guards would not work beside the prisoners?
7. Arthur Phillip and the colony of Sydney had a difficult first few years. Year later, what did an English ship bring to the colony?
8. Some convicts realized that life in Australia was better than life in England. Why did they thing so?
9. What was a squatter?
10. How was life difficult for squatters in Australia?
11. What happened to the Aborigines as the English claimed more land in Australia?

3. 1. Read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 40-48.

4. Answer the following questions.

1. How was the dragon in the Story of the Dragon’s Pearl able to find his pearl once it was stolen? 
2. What did the pearl in the Story of the Dragon’s Pearl become when it was thrown into the celestial river?
3. Why did Dragon have to stay behind when Minli crossed the bridge of Red Thread to see the Old Man of the Moon? 
4. Who told Minli the story of Wu Kang? 
5. Who did the Old Man of the Moon obtain the red thread from?
6. What lesson does Wu Kang need to learn before he will be able to chop down the silver tree? 
7. What happens to the seeds that Wu Kang knocks from the silver tree he is attempting to cut down?
8. Who does Minli believe the buffalo boy’s friend is and how did she come to believe this? 
9. What word was written on the page of the Book of Fortune when Minli looked at before asking her question of the Old Man of the Moon?
10. What did Minli ask the Old Man of the Moon? 
11. What did the fish say after Ma finished telling her story? 
12. How many nights did Dragon wait at the bridge of red thread for Minli? 
13. What did the Old Man of the Moon tell Minli must be done before Dragon would be able to fly? 
14. Why did Minli say she did not ask the Old Man of the Moon how to change her fortune? 
15. What was the stone that Minli had pulled from Dragon’s head? 
16. What happened to Fruitless Mountain the morning after Minli’s return? 
17. What did Minli and her family do with the dragon pearl? 

5. Work on story!