Mrs. Kennedy’s Packet Grande
Chapters 8-13
Andrew Jackson, the Industrial Revolution,
Southern Society, City Life and Women’s Rights
Worth: 65 Points
Assigned: Thursday Feb 2, 2017Due: Friday, March 8, 2017
By yourself, or with a partner, you must choose the following: If you work with a partner, you must do 3 of the options below. If you work alone, you do only 2 below. You can only do 1 letter; and 1 brochure of the 2 possible choices. (2=25pts ea. Or 3=16.7pts each)
You must submit a Works Cited on a separate page (10pts). (Remember this is to include only sources you quote from). You must have 4 separate sources if you work alone, 6 if you work with a partner.
Your choices must be in a report cover, with a cover page(5pts). The cover page must have the following: Packet Grande; Your name, Social Studies 8, Period ___, and date. (Name of partner should be after your name if you have a partner.)Option #____; Name of Option; Option #____; Name of option. If you have a partner,you would add your third option. Option #3 __;Name of Option. Everything must be folded to fit inside that report cover. You do not need to laminate anything. The report cover can NOT be a binder!!!! Make sure to add pictures.
OPTIONS
1)Choose eightkeyterms from the keyterm list. Create a pocket book and decorate it to reflect the key terms. Each pocket side should have 4 cards, with one key term on each card. On one side of the card, title your key term. Below it, write the following information: What it is. Why it is important. How it relates to today. On the other side of the card, please include a picture or hand drawn, colored illustration of each key term. The pocket itself should have pictures on it, and have your name, title of the option, and period on the front of the pocket. You must have supporting evidence to show either why it’s important or how it relates to today. Everything should be typed and single-spaced.
2)Construct a chart exhibiting the differences between the three main regions of the time: Northeast, South and the West. 1.Compare the following characteristics: economy, education, government, labor force, agriculture, geography & climate.2.Everything should be typed.(You can use the “table function” in Word; make 4 columns, 6 rows, and then put the characteristics, one on each row; one column for each region.)3. Lastly, you must type a short paragraph where you will explain what you think is the most important difference between these three regions and why. Be sure to include supporting evidence (quotes) from one of your sources.4. In your chart, you should have at least 3 sentences per characteristic, per region.
3)Create a biography poster about Andrew Jackson. Create your poster into a shape which relates to Andrew Jackson. Design this carefully before you cut out the shape. 1. Place a picture of Andrew Jackson on the poster. Include his full name on the poster. 2. Write 3, 10 sentence paragraphs about his life, make sure you use supporting evidence here. 3. Include 4 other pictures on your poster to help describe or identify different aspects of Jackson’s character or person, that which he is famous for. Put 3 quotations from Jackson’s writings, what he stood for, believed in and fought for. In another paragraph, using the first person point of view, complete the following five open-ended sentences:
- I am most proud of the following three accomplishments in my life…
- When I look back on my life, I am saddened by…
- When people remember me, I want them to say…
- If I could have changed anything in my life, it would have been…because…
- The person who influenced me the most in my life is ______because she/he taught me….
(You must complete these sentences as if you were Jackson.)
The shape must be folded to fit into 8 ½ x 11 pocket folder.
4)You are a Native American leader who has been forced to decide between complying with the U.S. government’s Indian Removal policy by migrating to Indian Territory, or fighting for your right to live where you choose. Write three journal entries (with dates) describing the agonizing decision process and set it using the facts of the time. Write about events that might sway your decision one way or the other. Make sure you also illustrate it by hand drawn, colored pictures. Each journal entry must be a full page in length, have lots of content about the changes in Native American life since the “white man” came.
5)Historical fiction became quite popular around the time of the 1820s. Create a short story that uses fictional characters to portray a historical event discussed in Chapters 8-13. Your short story should include pictures. Pictures should be labeled. It is to be typed and put into a little book(8 ½ x 11, folded into 4s. You can type the story single-spaced, and then cut and paste it into your little book.
6)Create a pamphlet examining the changes that occurred from 1790-1860, during the time of the Industrial Revolution. You must use atleast five different inventions that came about, and place them double-sided (front and back) on the pamphlet. Include drawings or pictures of each invention. Make sure to include the invention date with each invention. You must also use about 8-10 sentences to explain this invention, as well as who invented it. Include supporting evidence. Some examples of inventions: spinning jenny, water frame, textile mill, interchangeable parts, mass production, factories, steamboats, railroads, canals, roads, telegraph and Morse code, steel plow, mechanical reaper, sewing machine, iceboxes, iron cook stoves, clocks, and/or water pumps. Everything must be typed, a picture per invention, supporting evidence and include what that invention has evolved into today.
7)Come up with an idea for a 2017 invention that would make people’s lives easier in today’s world. This is done in 2 parts: 1: VIDEOExplain why the invention you have created is convenient, explain why your invention is useful, and describe how it could improve people’s lives. Make thisvideo about how your invention would make life more comfortable or convenient. 2. EXPLANATION SHEET: Include a picture of your invention and a detailed explanation, in writing: on a separate sheet of paper, about how your invention works, how it can better the lives of those who would get it. This must be 1 page long, typed and double-spaced, NOT including the picture. Please read the following information or you WILL lose points:
***You mustpresent your video to class on Feb 24th. You may have friends from other classes in your video and use music, etc.; but you must be in the video yourself.Make sure to present a background paragraph tying in the Industrial Revolution (ch 11) with your invention today. You are to begin your video with this history information, either by using big posters that you videotape, or by presenting this by each participant in the video.
8)Prepare a persuasiveessay on the topic: Resolved: the focus on cotton was or was not good for the southern economy in the early 1800s. Use the library, internet, and textbook to research reasons why dependence on one staple crop such as cotton may or may not have been good for the economy. Use this information to write a persuasive essay on your arguments. This must be a two full-page, typed double-spaced essay. Make sure to include supporting evidence.
10)Write a letter to a government official pointing out the unsanitary living conditions, health risks, crime and poor public services associated with urban life in the early to mid-1800s. Include specific problems that urban residents might have faced at that time and suggestions you have for improvement that are appropriate to the time period. Please include a date on your letter, reflecting the time. This letter must be two pages, typed, and double-spaced.
11)Create two collages: one that includes common, everyday women from the early to mid-1800s and one that includes common, everyday women from the year 2017, and also write an essay. Your collages will be focused on women’s roles in society, then and now. Use images/pictures from the internet, magazines and newspapers to complete your collages. I would suggest including images of famous women on your collages. When you have finished your collages, you will write an essay focusing on your two collages. Your essay should explain why you picked the images/pictures you did for your collages, what you think about women’s roles from back then, and what you think of women’s roles from today. Finally, discuss your opinion on the following question: In present day, are womentreated equally in the work place, or are males still the dominant force in the work place? Your collages should fit into Packet Grande, but if you are having trouble doing that, please see me. Your essay must be typed, double-spaced and two pages in length.
12. Create a monthly newspaper set sometime in 1850. You must have 3-4 news stories (with pictures); 8 letters to the editor. There should be 2 letters per issue of the day, one for an action the paper endorsed, one against; Total 4 issues. These letters are based on “pretend” editorials your paper printed in previous editions. You must also have 8 advertisements for products/events/for sale items in the time period. The newspaper should be 3-4 double-sided, typed pages, stapled together 81/2 x 11 sheets of paper. Stories should be in columns, as well as letters; ads can be everywhere you can put them. Your newspaper should have a name which should go at the top of the first page across the paper. The columns should appear below the title and throughout the paper. (Your quotes can be italized, with quotation marks, about real events or people and what they actually said).
****NOTE:
Your Packet Grande must have all the sources you quoted directlyin your Works Cited. You must have parenthetical citations after your quotes. You must have a minimum of 4 sources in your works cited, 2 books (including the textbook) and 2 internet sources.
Key Term List
Packet Grande Keyterms
James MonroeSouthern Agricultural Economy
The Era of Good FeelingsEli Whitney/Cotton Gin
Monroe DoctrineSlavery
Andrew JacksonPlanters
Henry ClayCotton Belt
Missouri CompromiseSouthern Factories
American SystemYeomen
Cumberland RoadWhite Southern Culture
Erie Canalthe Urban South
The Election of 1824Free African-Americans
John Quincy AdamsSlave Life and Culture
Jacksonian DemocracyNat Turner’s Rebellion
Democratic PartyImmigrants
Spoils SystemNativist
NullificationThe Know-Nothing Party
The Second Bank of the United StatesCities
McCulloch vs. MarylandMiddle Class
The Whig PartyUrban Problems
Indian Removal ActTemperance Movement
Treaty of Dancing RabbitEducational Improvements
Worcester vs. GeorgiaHorace Mann
FactoriesAbolition
Samuel Morse/Telegraph /Morse Code Sojourner Truth
Isaac Singer/Sewing MachineWomen’s Rights
Trail of TearsSeneca Falls Convention
Industrial RevolutionDeclaration of Sentiments
Samuel SlaterSusan B. Anthony
Eli Whitney/Interchangeable PartsElizabeth Cady Stanton
Mass ProductionLucretia Mott
Muskets
Richard Arkwright/Waterframe
James Hargreaves/Spinning Jenny
Francis Cabot Lowell/Lowell System
Trade Unions
Transportation Revolution
Robert Fulton/Steamboats
Clipper Ships
Peter Cooper/Railroads
Canals
Turnpikes
New Roads
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