For the week of March 22

1. Mindfulness Journal, pages ___ and ___

2. Read The Bark of the Bog Owl, chapters 1-5, pages 1-44.

3. Answer these questions for BotBO.

Chapter 1

1. Who is Aidan Errolson on the inside? On the outside? 
2. What affect does the bark of the Bog Owl have on Aidan?

Chapter 2

1. What does the old stranger say is there to find?
2. Who is the dusty stranger? 
3. Who is the King of Corenwald? 
4. Describe Bayard.
5. Wh are the sons of Errol? 
6. What does Bayard chant?

Chapter 3

1. Who are the feechiefolk? 
2. What do the feechiefolk call the Corenwalders? 
3. What is a ceremonial techie rudeswap? 
4. Why does Dobro, the feechie boy, want to fight?
5. What does Dobro’s mother tell him about Corenwalders?

Chapter 4

1. What do Dobro and Aidan see after their wrestling match? 
2. What happens to the panther?

Chapter 5

1. Who does Bayard say Aidan is? 
2. Fill in the blanks for these wise quotes from Bayard 

a.(p41) Every great man starts out as a ________. Every great woman starts out as a________. 
b. (P42) Where there is no _________, there can be no ___________. 
c. (P42) _____________ is the will to lay aside ______ because ________ to do right outweighs your _________ to avoid getting _________. 
d. (P43) Live the ________ that _________ before you. Love ___________ more than you fear ___________.

4. Read Chapters 1 and 2 of The Story of the World Volume 4

5. Answer the following questions:

Chapter One 

Britain’s Empire

Victorian England

1. What four countries make up Great Britain?
2. For what great event was the Crystal Palace built?
3. Name the three exhibits and the countries that sent them.

4. Name three of the British machines displayed at the Crystal Palace.

5. What was the real reason for the Great Exhibition?
6. Why did the British say, “The sun never sets on the British Empire”?
7. The British colonies sent wealth back to Britain—but why else did the British want to spread their empire?
8. Finish this quote from Cecil Rhodes: “We are the first [best] race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, _______________________________________ _________________________________________.”
9. To what did Thomas Babington Macaulay compare the kings and queens of Britain?
10. Name five countries that held British colonies or territories.

The Sepoy Mutiny

1. What did the East India Company build throughout India?
2. Why did the governor of Bengal grow nervous about the trading post of Calcutta?
3. What happened when the Indian army tried to drive the East India Company out of Bengal?
4. Why did both Hindus and Muslims in India fear English control?
5. Who paid the salary of India’s emperor, Bahadur Shah?
6. What was a sepoy?
7. Why were the hindu sepoys alarmed by the British law declaring that they could be sent on ships to fight in other countries?
8. Why were all of the sepoys worried about the new Enfield rifle?
9. What did the sepoys think that the British were trying to do by giving them these new rifles?
10. Why did the East India Company put Bahadur Shah on trial for treason?
11. Did the East India Company keep control of India’s government?
12. Who governed India instead?

Chapter Two

West Against East

Japan Re-Opens

1. Two what family did the Japanese shoguns belong?
2. The shoguns were afraid fo Christian missionaries for two reasons. What were they?
3. List two laws that helped keep Western ideas out of Japan.
4.  What job did President Millard Fillmore give to Matthew Perry?
5.  What was the most important resource that the Americans wanted to buy from Japan?
6.  What trick did the Japanese play on Matthew Perry when he insisted on seeing the emperor?
7. Why did the Japanese agree to sign a trade treaty with the United States?

The Crimean War

1. What “lit match” started a war in 1853?
2. What did the Ottoman Turks give England, France, and other countries permission to do?
3. What was Nicholas I, the czar of Russia, looking for an excuse to do?
4. How did the English feel about the Russians?
5. Why did the French king Louis-Phillipe travel to England?
6. The Crimean War began with an argument between Russia and French Christians. What were they arguing about?
7. What threat did the king of France make?
8. What did Nicholas I do when the French got the keys?
9. What two countries joined the Turks in their fight against the Russians?
10. What city did France and Britain decide to capture? Where was it?
11. Why did the Russians need to keep Sevastopol?
12. What happened to the British army as the Crimean War went on?
13. Who finally conquered Sevastopol?
14. Alexander, Nicholas’ son, had to sign the Peace of Paris. What two things did he promise to do?

At the School Table today we:

1. Filled out the maps for chapters 1 and 2 of Volume 4 SoTW.

2. Watched a video about The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition of 1851

3. Read the page about Queen Victoria in our Kings and Queens book and wrote a response

4. Introduced Bark of the Bog Owl and read the first few pages, answering the HW questions