Homework for the week of January 18

1. Read No Summit Out of Sight chapters 4-6. Write a response paragraph using at least three prompts from the new Response Sheet.

2. Journal on page 14 of The Mindfulness Journal. Write at least five sentences. You will only read me one of those sentences. 

3. Read chapters 27 and 28 in The Story of the World.

4. Answer the following questions.

Chapter 27

Steam and Coal in Britain

1. What kind of power made the machines and tools of the weaver and the blacksmith work?
2. What machine did James Watt perfect in 1769? 
3. After James Watt perfected the steam engine, what were people able to use this machine for?
4. The team engine changed the West because it could “work” longer than human muscles, windmills, or water wheels. How long could a steam engine perform a task?
5. Where did the coal from the steam engine come from?
6. What was one of the dangers that coal miners faced?
7. What happened to miners who breathed too much coal dust?
8. In what two ways was call transported to towns?
9. What change did steam bring to the way people travelled?

Cotton and Guns in America

1. What was one of the main crops grown in the southern United States?
2. How was a cotton ball from the plant different from a cotton ball you buy in the store?
3. Who came up with a new way of separating the seeds from the cotton?
4. How did Eli Whitney’s new machine work?
5. What was the name of Whitney’s new machine?
6. How many pounds of cotton could a single worker clean in one day, using the cotton gin?
7. How could a plantation owner make the cotton gin work even faster
8. Why did it take a long time to fix a gun?
9. Eli Whitney had another idea about how the army might have better guns. What was his basic idea?
10. We now call Eli Whitney’s idea standardization. What is standardization?
11. Was Whitney the first person to think of interchangeable parts?
12. Soon interchangeable parts were used for all sorts of goods. What was one other manufactured good that soon was using interchangeable parts?

Chapter 28

The Kingdom at the Center of the World

1. Why did the Chinese call themselves the “Central Civilization”?
2. While the West was trying to master nature, China was not. What did Confucius teach the Chinese about how to relate to nature?
3. How many Ports did Chi’en-lung open to the western countries?
4. What was the purpose of the Eight Regulations?
5. List two of the Eight Regulations. 
6. What were some of the goods that England liked to buy from China?
7. Who was England’s ambassador to China?
8. George Macartney brought many gifts to Chi-en-lung. What did Chi’en-lung do with the gifts?
9. Did Chi’en-lung treat Macartney like an ambassador? 
10. What did the Chinese courtiers expect Macatney to do? Did he do it?
11. Macartney had brought a letter from England’s king, George III. What were two things that this letter asked Chi’en-lung to do?
12. Did Chi-en-lung grant the requests of George III?

The Rise of the Opium Trade

1. What did England have that China wanted?
2. What did doctors use opium for?
3. What was the worst thing about taking opium?
4. Why doesn’t Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem about Xanadu make sense?
5. Where did the East India Company grow poppies for opium?
6. Why did the emperor of China forbid the British to bing opium to China?
7. Did the British stop shipping opium into China when the Chinese emperor made it illegal? 
8. Did the English official in charge of India want the British in India to smoke opium?
9. If the English official did not want the British in India to smoke opium, why did he keep shipping the drug to China?