For the Week of November 9 through 13

1.  Read chapters 21 and 22 in SotW.

2. Answer these questions:

Chapter 21

Three Pointless Wars

1. Why did the first of the three wars (the war started by Louis XIV, the Sun King) begin?
2. Name the three countries that banded together to stop LouisXIV from expanding his empire.
3. What did these countries call the war?
4. What did the English government pay Iroquois warriors to do?
5. What name did the English colonists have for "The War of the Grand Alliance"?
6. What was the outcome of "King William's War" in Europe and North America?
7. How did the French and English colonies feel about each other?
8. What title did Louis XIV give his grandson?
9. What two countries then declared war on France and Spain together, to keep Louis's power from growing?
10. England and the Netherlands called their war against France and Spain the "War of Spanish Succession." What did the North American colonists call it?
11. What did the English gain in North America during "Queen Anne's War"?
12. What happened to the Spanish colony of Pensacola, down in Florida?
13. Did the war end with either side gaining a decisive victory?
14. Who was given the English throne when Queen Anne died?
15. What language did George I speak?
16. Did France and England go to war during the reign of GeorgeI?
17. Who inherited the English throne after George I died?
18. What did Englishman Robert Jenkins claim the Spanish had done to him?
19. What did Parliament do when they heard Jenkins/story?
20. Which countries joined England in the war against Spain?
21. Which countries joined Spain in the war against England?
22. What were the other two names for the "War of Jenkins' Ear"?

The Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

1. What three countries were fighting for control of North America?
2. The English heard that the French were moving south into the Ohio River Valley?
3. What message did King George II of England tell Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia to deliver to the French regarding the land of the Ohio River Valley?
4. What young Virginian carried George II's message to the French?
5. How many rivers join together at the Ohio Fork?
6. How did the French respond to the message?
7. What difficulties did Washington and his guide encounter on their journey back to Virginia?
8. When Washington told Governor Dinwiddie about the French refusal, what two things did Dinwiddie do?
9. After Washington and his small army were defeated by the French, the English sent Edward Braddock and his soldiers to fight the French. What did Edward Braddock call his soldiers?
10. Early in the French and Indian War, what advantages did the French have over the English?
11. The North American war was also given a European name. What was that name?
12. What was the name of the Prime Minister of England who tried to make sure that the English would triumph?
13. What did the English soldiers do to fight more effectively against the French?
14. What was the name of the treaty that ended the Seven Years' War?
15. What city stands on the spot where the Ohio River Fort was built?
16. What two large French settlements did the English conquer?
17. Louis XV lost the empire that Louis XIV had given him. How did his people feel about him?

Chapter 22

Discontent in the British Colonies

1. Do you remember what happened in the Act of Union?
2. IN the early eighteenth century, four different kinds of people sailed under the flag of Great Britain. What were they?
3. Britain had spent thousands of pounds during the Seven Years' War. How did they intend to regain some of that money?
4. What did the Sugar Act require of the American colonists?
5. Name two things that were taxed by the Stamp Act.
6. What were the American colonists ordered to provide for the British troops?
7. What were the General Assemblies?
8. What was Patrick Henry's main argument against the colonists having to pay taxes?
9. What did the new king of Great Britain, George III, agree to do in response to the colonists/ protests?
10. What did colony leaders name the incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd and killed five colonists?
11. What did the colonists do at the "Boston Tea Party?"
12. Name two things that the Continental Congress asked Parliament to do.
13. Who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"?

The American Revolution

1. Who were the Minutemen?
2. What happened on April 18, 1775?
3. Why didn't the British surprise the Americans?
4. What happened when the British soldiers met the Minutemen in Lexington?
5. What did the Second Continental Congress do?
6. Where did the first huge battle of the ward take place?
7. AT first, many Americans were fighting for representation in Parliament. But what did Thomas Paine hope that the Americans would do?
8. What was the first colony to declare itself free from Great Britain?
9. Why did the Continental Congress meet again in Philadelphia?
10. Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?
11. What did the British do in response?
12. What river did George Washington cross to launch his surprise attack on Christmas night, 1776?
13. The war went on for two more years. What turned the tide in America's favor in 1778?
14. Where did the American army corner the British in 1781?
15. When the British army, under Lord Cornwallis, surrendered, what tune did the band play?
16. What happened in 1783?

3. Read chapters 30-39 in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.

4. Answer the following questions:

1. How was A-Fu able to defeat the Green Tiger? 
2. Who healed Dragon’s wounds? 
3. What was the village where Da-A-Fu lived called? 
4. On what nights did the seed rain fall from the sky over the Village of the Moon Rain? 
5. What made the villagers of the Village of Moon Rain think the Green Tiger was not an ordinary tiger? 
6. Who did A-Gong discover the Green Tiger was? 
7. What was the Green Tiger’s punishment for the village? 
8. What did the Villagers of the Village of Moon Rain decide to name the medicine that cured the Green Tiger’s poison? 
9. Where did the fabric for the jacket that Minli received from Amah come from? 
10. How did Da-A-Fu’s ancestors decide to spend their last moments, after they learned of the magistrate’s approaching army? 
11. What did Minli and Da-A-Fu use to make the kite they sent to the Old Man of the Moon? 
12. What did Da-A-Fu say when Minli suggested that they could change their fortune, too, by talking to the Old Man of the Moon? 
13. What happened to the Red Thread as Minli and Dragon began to pull it back in? 

5. Participial Phrases: 

Introduce Participial phrases.

6.  Begin writing your short (short) story about Angel Baby and the Spider Scare.