Review

Today, we talked about our final test. The test is going to be 100 multiple choice questions and 1 essay. I feel like i need to memorize a lot of stuff for the test but i think i got this :)

Review

Today 

We 

Reviewed 

For 

The

FINAL

Exam

Blog - Friday

I was very busy on Friday and thus forgot to write a blog (The first time i forgot ever)

On Friday's class, we spent some time on reviewing the PPT about the American Revolution. It was the first mod of the day and everybody seems very sleepy. For me, i was not as awake as other mods but i still have a good focus during the class. The final is coming and i think i will doing very well on the US History exam.

Poetry

Today, we did our Paul Revere poetry! I think everybody did a great great job on it and it was a fun time. First we read our stanza one by one and then explained what does the stanza is about. The whole poet is about the start of the American Revolution War. It is a literary work that is extremely popular in Mr. Schick's generation. I personally like this work also since it is pretty catchy and i'm having fun reading it.

Notes

Today, we continue taking note on our PPT. I accidentally left my notebook at school so i have to type the note on tomorrows blog

Fun things

Almost everybody is down today -last mod of the day....TOO tired

But

Mr. Schick still very excited about his lecture - The American Revolution!!!! Dududu

Also he introduced us a poem which is super long and.....excited i guys

Then he assigned one paragraph for each one of us and have us read it in front of the class!

This is gonna be fun i guess

HAHA

Notes

Boston Massacre

• Only British company can supply the tea
• Local tea company - out of business
• Colonist boycotted British tea

Tea Party

• December 1773
• Led by Samuel Adams
• Dress like native American
• Being rebellious to British

Aftermath

• Banning public meeting - ANGRY
• Closing Boston Harbor - ANGRYYYYY
• More solider - ANGGGGGGGRRRRRRYYYYYY

Section 3 question

In the beginning of the class, a lot of us are either tired, sick, or bored. As result, Mr. Schick gave us reading assignment as classwork instead of taking notes with PPT

Section 2 Review

1. The colonist felt very angry about the proclamation since it had impair their benefit dramatically.

2. The colonist protest British laws and acts by not purchasing British goods, refuse paying taxes, and forming a protest group called the Sons of Liberty. 

3. I will write protest letters and calling other colonist to sign it.

4. Now is the critical moment in making decision. We either strengthen our mind to fight the vicious British for our glorious freedom, or retreat over and over again until we are completely unable to fight like a frog in the hot water. If both of them will result death and casualties, then we shall rely on the one which is worth more to risk. 

Blog - Note

Today, we went over the ppt about the conflict between French and British.

N O T E

Alley - Friend country
Cede - to surrender

Mid 1700 - British settle Ohio River Valley, which is the west of the Appalachian Mountain
First - Native American
French - Trading partner (Animal hide, settlement in Quebec)

French - Need British to limit their settlement - only along Atlantic

• Control trade pathway
• Settling up post
• Trade with Native

But - French only have 65,000 people while British have 1,000,000!!!!!

The French and Indian War - British Win 

French - Surprise attack, hiding, camouflage

British - Marching, wearing red coat 

FiELD TRiP

Today

We got our test back

Another perfect score

I can't believe how smart i am

Haha

We said "Hi" to Martha

WiFi Sucks

Suky is happy

Frozen outside

We took pictures

North Korea is fun to joke with XD

Happy Thanksgiving

Test

During the class, Mr Schick gave us the chapter test. Everybody was surprised since the test is only consist of fill in the blank with word box. In my opinion, this test was way more easy to get a hundred than previous tests. Most of us finish it in a short time period. Oh, Martha was one of the test question as mention by Toby yesterday XD How about that!

Oh oh we also had some delicious bread today :D Thank you Mr. Schick

Happy Thanksgiving !

Review

Today, we review the powerpoint for the test tomorrow. In general, i think this chapter is not very hard for me and i expect myself to get another 100 on the test.

Mr. Schick almost got caught by the police

Jerry loves teddy

Suky might be a big criminal

Everyone is hungry

Hallelujah

UMD field trip

Today, i went to the University of Mary land with other international students and Mrs. Simsen. The campus was HUGE and took us more than 1 hour for touring around. After visited several buildings and facilities, we had lunch at the food court of UMD. I had some delicious Chinese food and that makes my day :D

Oh by the way i absolutely miss the class and can't wait to meet again tomorrow XD

Text book questions

Today Mr. Schick was absent and we worked on the questions in the textbook.

1. What was Great Awakening - Great Awakening is a time period when minsters tried to awaken a feeling of religion in colonists
2. What political rights did men in England have that colonial men did not? 
1. Making law without the regulation of England
2. Right to trial by jury
3. Why did England establish colonies? - In order to make England rich
4. How did the Navigation Acts control trade? - By restricting the entrance of the ship to the colony - Only English ships or ships made in the colonies could carry goods to and from the colonies. Other ships had to stop at England first and pay tax to them in order to go the colonies. 

Section 3 Review

1. How did the Great Awakening affect the colonies? - Many new religious group formed during this period.
2. Why did England tell the colonies what goods they could import and export - In order to maximize their's profit in trading.
3. Explain why the right to a trial by jury was important to colonist. - Compare to one judge, a group of people is able to make a more reasonable judgment to the person who receive the trial.
4. You are a colonist, Write a letter to King George, persuading him to let the colonies make their own rules about trade 

King George

                 As the representative of the people who wants to benefit the colonies it self and the England, I beseech you, King George, to give us the right for making our own rules about trade. 

God bless and have a great day :D 

Arthur Zhang 

Growth of towns and cities

Today, we discussed the growth of towns and cities.

• Common - An open area shared by all the villagers
• Boston and New York - Depended on shipping
• Philadelphia - Street lights, fire company, library
• 1636 - Harvard College
• 1693 - The College of William and Mary 

During the class, we talked about Mr. Schick's experience at Chicago during the weekend for the whole class period. He is so excited about sharing his story and everybody seems have fun listening. My favorite part is when he was on the plane and motivate other passengers to cheer for a team. It was so cool to see different people all excited and cheer together.

Class - Notes

Today we take notes during the class

1. New England 
1. Short growing season, rocky soil - Not many crop
2. Forest and Atlantic Ocean - Lumber, fishing, shipbuilding
3. Boston - major port
2. Middle colonies
1. Lower, warmer climate - Wheat and rye
2. Bread colonies & Breadbasket colonies
3. Export flour
4. Farm workers were hired by landowner, with slaves occasionally
3. Southern Colonies
1. Large plantation in the east
2. Small farm in the west
4. Triangular trade
1. Ships carry rum, cloth, iron goods from colonies to west Africa, in exchange of slave
2. Enslaved Africans and gold are shipped fro sale in the West Indies
3. Slaves, molasses, sugar are sold in the colonies
5. The growth of towns and cities
1. Settlement become towns
1. Farmers often traded fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, quilts, baskets, and other things
2. England did not allow the colonies to print or coin their own money
3. Also did not allow the colonies to bring English money to America
6. What can you find in the town
1. At least one Church
2. A general store which sold a variety of items, including some imports
3. Individual shop
4. A gristmill
5. A sawmill
6. A public meetinghouse
7. A school

Class - Presidential Election

Today
is
the
ELECTION
Day

we predicted the result for the election

My prediction will be Hillary Clinton since she had the winning trend at this point of time

Gonna be very excited tonight XD

President Trump or President Hillary

Absent - Retreat

Today I was absent from the class since i went to junior retreat. The retreat was pretty good and enjoyable. It's been a while since we had class with Mr. Schick and i'm looking forward to have the class tomorrow :D

Classwork

Mr. Schick is out today

We worked on our workbook for the entire class period

Have a good weekend Mr. Schick :D

CUBS

Cubs won the World Series :o

Mr. Schick was so happy  :D

Everyone is happy as well XD

Since he is so excited QWQ

He did not prepare for the class >_<

And then we worked on something else :P

-End-

Today, we worked on reading the textbook and the questions since Mr. Schick was still in Chicago. Below are questions from page 48 to 51

1. What goods and services were in colonial towns? 
1. Goods: Vegetables, meat, eggs, quilts and baskets.  
2. Services: Gristmill, sawmill, church
2. How was the town common used? - 
1. The town common was used for villagers to share and for gathering building to be built around.
3. What were two of the important colonial cities?
1. Philadelphia
2. Boston

Section 2 Review

1. What kind of towns were in colonial America?
1. Large trade town
2. Port town
2. What is New England town meeting?
1. The meeting is for people to elect leaders and vote on laws for the town
3. If you were educated person living in a colonial city, what new ideas might you be talking about?
1. Adding post office 
2. Establishing insurance company
4. You are a farmer in colonial America. Write a list of things you can do when you go to town.
1. Buy foods
2. Trade goods
3. Borrow some books for leisure
4. Check out the fancy-awesome street light in Philadelphia
5. Go to Church and pray for God
6. Go to gristmill
7. Go to sawmill. 

Blog - class

IT is a cold day

We review our work from last week

Mr. Schick show Jerry about what he missed yesterday :D

History is written by the victor

Victors are not always nice

Blog - Outside

TODAY

WE WENT OUTSIDE !

嗨森嗨森

We walked

We talked

We chilled

We laughed

We gazed

We ran

It was delightful

And also

Enjoyable

Blog - Classwork

Today, Mr. Schick told us to read the textbook about the economy of the Colonies and to finish the practice in workbook. It took me 10 minutes to cover everything and thus i spend the other half of the class period on my religion essay.

Test

Today we went over the test.

I

Got

A

Hundred

AGAIN

666666666

Yeahhhhhhhh

Wahhhhhhahahahahha

23333333333

XD

The test was fair -  Maybe i will say it is easy for me :0
 i think i deserve the 100 since i did spend an hour on review the ppt and notes

Test

Today we took our test. I think i did a great job and might get a 100 on it.
Mr. Schick put the honor code in for languages on our test by using Google translate XD
The translation is very humorous to see and it makes my day :0

我是一个高尚的人，我不骗

Test review

On today's class, we go over the ppt about the early America settler. The test is going to be on Thursday after the PSAT.

Notes - Southern colony

During the class period, we continued our discussion about the early North America Colony.

Virginia

• Very first English colony. 
• James town
• Settled by people from New England - Escape from the Puritan

Maryland

• Safe haven for Catholics who were not treated well in England
• George Calvert - First Lord in Baltimore. He was given a charter to settle in MD
• After he died - he pass his position to his son Cevil Calvert
• The Toleration Act - AKA the act concerning Religion - Write by George Calvert
• Good thing: It protect Catholics and other non-Angelic Christian
• Bad thing: Death sentence for anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus

North/South Carolina

• In 1663, the king Charles of England give 8 rich England lords the right to settle in South Virginia.
• Virginia - named after king Charles
• Popular - due to nice weather & good farm land
• In 1712 - Divided into two since it is too populous 
• 
  

Georgia 

• Last of 13 colonies
• Set up as home to debtors - people who joined for owing money
• 1733 - Georgia become a colony. 
• It is the furthest south of all the colonies  

Notes - Colonies

On Wednesday, we talked about some colonies among the earliest thirteen colonies. Here are some notes from the class period

• Massachusetts - First New England colonies. Settled by Pilgrims, then Puritan
• New Hampshire - Established by people who left Puritan
• Rhode Island - Roger William & Anne Hutchinson - they believed that 

1. The established churches had too much power.
2. State/Government should be separate from the church, or religion
3. Freedom of religion

• Connecticut - Thomas Hooker - Leave from Puritan  #Wrote a document called "The Foundational Orders of Connecticut - First written system of government in North America. 
• New York - People from Netherland   Henry Hudson - paid by dutch   Largest town - New Amsterdam
• New Jersey - The English took over the New Amsterdam and divided it into two colonies - NY, NJ   They changed the name of New Amsterdam to New York City
• Pennsylvania - Established by William Penn - Quakers. He asked English King to give him land for settling colony and get approved    

           Penn's belief: All people should be treated equally, No slavery, Maintain peace with natives

• Delaware - Established by Swedes. Then dutch took over. Then the English took over. Some southern Pennsylvania settlers wanted to set up their own colony - Quaker leader agreed           

Colony

During the class period, we read page 32 to 37 and colored a map for the colonies. Mr. Schick said he is not fully functional since he stayed up too late for watching game. After coloring, we answered review questions on the back of the book.

Presentation

Today we finish our presentation about the difference between pilgrim and puritan. Lily, Christina and Long all did a pretty awesome job. Later Mr. Schick ask us some question about being an international student. This is always my favorite part of class since it feels good to have someone who cares about how is it feel to study abroad.

Blog - Presentation

Today we did our presentation. I volunteer to go first and did my presentation fluently and was very happy about it. Later we go through two more group of presentation. Everyone did a pretty good job on it. I learn a bit more than i research which is very interesting to know.

Blog

Today is costume day. Almost everybody in the class wore different costume. My costume is shark but many people said it is a penguin costume :P 

We spent the whole class period working on our project. 

Notes - Pilgrim and Puritan

Today we talked about the Pilgrim and the Puritan. Mr. Schick assigned us a project about the difference of these two groups of people. Below are notes taken today

• Pilgrim - a group who separated from the Church of England
• They travel for pursuing their belief
• The name of their ship is "Mayflower"
• The troubles that Pilgrim encountered are: Lacking food supply, cold weather, illness among the settlers.
• They received assistance from Native indian tribe Wampanoag

• Puritans - Come after Pilgrim
• They come to New England for religious freedom in 1628
• They want to make the Church of England more pure
• In 1630, they set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony and settled around the Boston. 

Notes - English Settler

Today Mr. Schick switch our seats. I was not excited at all since he moves me to the left seat of my original seat. Later we took notes about English settler and watched a ten minute long video about the relationship between native indians and settler. The video is too long for me to keep full attention though.

Below are notes taken today

• 10 years after Spain - English bean to settle North America
• They formed Joint-stock companies for sharing profit and risk
• Jamestown - First English Settlement - Name after King James
• Problems they encountered are: Swamp land, unable to grow crops, Not much fresh water, settler dying from hunger and disease. 
• James Smith asked for assistance from Native Indians
• The relationship between the settler and the natives start deteriorating after James Smith left. 

Notes - General Review

Today Mr. Schick use a PPT instead of writing notes on the board in order to not raise up that screen anymore. We review about the notes from this and last week and talk about some pictures on the PPT. Also Mr. Schick complained about Los Angeles for heavy traffic and dirty environment. I totally agree with it since that is what exactly happened in China. The government keep developing the city even though it ends up not as comfortable as before.

Note - French Settler

At the beginning of the class

Mr. Schick show us how to shake hands

He finally raise the curtain within one try :D

Like a hero winning and crying

And then he asks us what time do we go to bed

He was shock by how late we go to sleep

Then we discussed about French settler - Jacque  Carter

Who is nice and love these native guys

By trading them with furs and fish

They get along well and make the land flourish 

He then ask us for voting for quiz

Half yes, half no.

Ryan took over Robert in Rock paper scissor

No quiz than and we work on our homework until class over. 

Note - French Settler

At the beginning of the class

Mr. Schick show us how to shake hands

He finally raise the curtain within one try :D

Like a hero winning and crying

And then he asks us what time do we go to bed

He was shock by how late we go to sleep

Then we discussed about French settler - Jacque  Carter

Who is nice and love these native guys

By trading them with furs and fish

They get along well and make the land flourish 

He then ask us for voting for quiz

Half yes, half no.

Ryan took over Robert in Rock paper scissor

No quiz than and we work on our homework until class over. 

Notes - Other explorers

During the class period, we discussed about some other early explorers from Europe to America. In general, most of them are inhumane in treating natives. Below are notes took from class

• Francisco Pizarro - Conquered Incas which inhabited in South America
• Juan Ponce de leon - Believed in the Fountain of Youth in Florida (Florida means "Full of flowers"
• Francisco de cononado - West US
• Catholic priest set up missions to teach their religion to natives. Basically they are tying to convert indigenous people to Catholic.
• Natives worked as slaves in silver mines. There is still a large demand in labor - More slaves brought in from Africa - These people are HORRIBLE :(
• Triangular slave trading system: European brought supplies and good to Africa - Slaves are brought into America from Africa - Gold, silver, and other goods are brought back to Europe

Note - Hernan Cortes

Today our main topic is a man called Hernan Cortes, who is both a great conquer and mass murder. 

• He was bored in 1485 in a noble family and went to Mexico in 1519 for conquering Aztecs and seizing gold and silver.  
• The Aztecs are extremely outgunned agains Hernan Cortes' troop and become eradicated quickly with cannons, horses, and diseases in 1521
• Early European people lived in a very filthy environment and grew immunity for deadly diseases, while Aztecs was lived in a fairly clean city and thus very susceptible from those diseases. 
• Hernan Cortes first destination was Cuba. He burned his ship immediately after arrival to prevent his people from escaping and force them to follow him. 

Test Review

Today we did a test review on the chapter 1 test. I got a 100 on it and was very delightful. Mr. Schick let us read and answer the question one by one. It was a fun time since everyone is pretty much fully engaged and doing great in answering questions. Mr. Schick actually had a list about what questions we got wrong, which provide us a comprehensive view about the overall difficulty of the test.

Test - EASY

The test today was very simple for me and i spend 15 minute complete it.

After the test Mr. Schick assigned us to read Pg 20 - 25 and answer the review questions

1. Spanish treat Native American poorly by enslaving and providing a miserable working condition. French get along well with American by trading.

2. Spain: For collecting treasures such gold and silver
    French: For trading

3. The desire of obtaining large amount of resource.

4.  a - He wants to claim a new land for his country.
     b - He wants to discover more resource and bring them back to his hometown
     c - He finds enjoyment in enslaving Native American and seeing them being tortured.
   
   
 

Review game

Today Mr. Schick discussed about the test questions that made by us yesterday. He pick three out of nine questions from everyone. It was a fun time since a lot of questions are very interesting. My favorites are Ryan's Shabi question and Suky's question. Our test will be on next Monday and I hope the difficulty will be fair enough for us :D

Test question

1. What was the time when the glaciers between Asia and North America start melting?  

A - About 100,000 years ago  B - About 8,000 years ago  C- About 10,000 years ago  D - About 7,000 years ago

     2.  In which location does Maya settles? 

A - Mexico  B - Rainforest  C - South Africa   D - China

     3 . Which following civilization is the oldest?

A - The Olmecs  B - The Maya  C - The Aztecs  D - The Incas

     4.  Why Europeans doesn't trade much in ancient time?

A - They don't have any valuable goods for trading 

B - There is a war going on all around the Europe  

C - People rarely travel far from their house  

D - The climate is too harsh to go anywhere 

     5.  Which following statement about Marco Polo is inaccurate? 

A - He is an Italian explorer who is famous for traveling to Asia. 

B - He spent 40 years in China and wrote a book about his exotic experience.
C - His adventure story had attracted many Europeans and motivated them to find a shortcut to Asia. 

D - Some people consider Marco Polo as a fraud who made up his story about Asia instead of actually travel to Asia. 

      6.  Will you be friend with a Viking stranger back in ancient time?

A - Yes! They are so nice and humorous!

B - Absolutely! I love their cute warrior costumes and the toy weapons!

C - Probably not, since they are too stupid to be friend with.

D - Noooooooo! Looks like they are going to kill me and take everything away!

     7.  Which one of the following is NOT belong to three Africa empires during the years from 1000 to 1600?

A - Melo

B - Songhai

C - Mali

D - Ghana

    8.  What is the real name of the native American people first discovered by Christopher Columbus

A - Indians
B - Arawak
C - Etruscan
D - Latin

    9.  Which one of the following is NOT a reason contribute to the sharp decrease in the population of Native American?

A - Enslavement
B - European diseases
C - Battle with foreigner
D - Civil war





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Sep 14 - HW review, Columbus

During the first mod of the class, Mr. Schick told us to introduce our National Anthem and sing it. Me and my Chinese fellow had sing our Chinese National Anthem and i felt really happy since i haven't sing that song for almost a year. Later when we are reviewing our homework, Mr. Schick vividly demonstrate us how scary and cruel the Viking is by showing us their picture and a metal song from a band call "Led Zeppelin", which favors me a lot. After that Robert had volunteer to be our teacher in reviewing homework. It was fun to have him to talk about his history and answering our questions. In the end, Mr. Schick revealed us the dark side of Christopher  Columbus, which is very surprising for us.

Sep 12. Section 2 - European Explore New Route

In the last mod of class we talked about the Europeans explore the new route to Asia in order to make money from trading. Below are some of the notes

• Europeans were lived in small villages and weren't doing much trading
• Vikings are Scandinavian navigators who once traveled to Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Cape Cod. Later they returned since the weather is too cold and they didn't get along with native people.
• Marco Polo - Italian who travelled to China for trading
• Sailors and navigators are tried to find a shortcut to Asia
• Most of people in Euro thought Earth was flat

No title

This is the shortest Blog that i had even written.

Today Mr Schick checked our blog and let us do the work for other class.

At the beginning of the class Mr. Schick gave us a "present" a workbook and i guess everybody is kind of surprise and "happy". Later we review the material that covered last weekend and spend 20 minute in fill the blank in the workbook. Below are the note for today

Nomad - a person who constantly travel for food

Glacier - a HUGE sheet of moving ice

Glacier starts melt at about 10,000 years ago

After a week with our substitute teacher, we finally met Mr. Schick today and had a great time during the first class. In the beginning, we are asked to send our blog address to Mr. Schick and later he told us the purpose of having us write a blog every day--for refreshing memory and preparing test. Also we talk about the reason of handwriting note in class--for helping us to memorize better as well. At the end of the class we discuss Nomads and Mr. Schick demonstrate us the process of how civilization is form-moving for food, to settle down and the specific division of labor. It is hilarious to see Mr. Schick show us how Nomad hunts by pretending as one of the Nomad people. In general today was a awesome start of the yearlong class and i am looking forward to have a enjoyable and productive time in the US history class.

1. What did students learn in Prince Henry's school - Sea navigation

2. What did Columbus hope to find on his voyage - A shortcut to Asia

3. Why do you think early explorers studies astronomy and geography? - To predict the weather condition on the ocean and to find out the direction of the fleet.

4. You are a sailor on one of Columbus's ships. Write a journal entry about the day you first saw land - After a long journey on the Pinta, we finally saw our destination--Asia this morning. Every member of the fleet cheers as the ship approaching to the edge of the Asia. Finally all of our effort is paid off. The goal of our captain Columbus is right in front of us and the burden on my heart suddenly drops since we traveled in right direction and discovered a new route to Asia.

Page 11-13


1. How did the Vikings arrive in America? - By sailing

2. Why were some European traders interesting in Marco Polo's adventures? - They are interested in     Marco Polo's story since there are many new thing such as foods and treasures.

3. If you lived during Marco Polo's time, would you believe his stories about China? Why or why not? - I will believe his story since it affect a large number of Europeans and encourage them to explore Asia.

4. You are Viking navigator. Write an entry in your journal describing why you are risking sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. - Royster, the chief navigator of the IX Viking fleets, is standing on the forefront of the ship and recalling about why he decide to undertake the risky burden of exploring a unknown land. As the memories of events occurred in his hometown pass though his mind, such as  farming land in Europe is diminishing,  trading opportunity is decreasing, he finally make up his mind to leave his wife and three children and become the leading navigator for the prosperity of Viking.

Today we spend 20 minute reading the first 9 pages of textbook. Here is the answer for the reading question

1. Why did nomads travel all the time? -For food.

2. What is one difference between the Aztecs and the Incas? - The Aztecs had developed their own writing language but Maya didn't.

3. Why do you think Native American families gathered into larger groups when they settled in certain areas - People gathering for gaining support, safety and forming a division of labor.

4. Write a paragraph about a day in the life of a Mayan worker. - At the morning time, Mayan worker Johnson start his work in the farm in front of his house. After working for a few hours, he stood up and looking at the river that ditched last year for watering the farm. In the afternoon, he went to the market to buy some food for his family. At the night, he checked the calendar for incoming events and and went to sleep.