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State 1

Background: State 1 is a large state that is mostly rural. It is a slave state and the economy is dependent on cotton. Most of the citizens are individualists and proud to be an independent state. They fear a national government because they fear it will evolve into the same type of control they experienced with the king.

Students: Zacko & Jonah

State Name: State of the Slave

Motto: Sweet Home Save Lives

Rights:

The right to food and a home
After 13 you are free
Right to be safe
Slaves have the right to be free after age 13
After 18 citizens may marry

Rules:

Citizens must feed and shelter the homeless
Children under 13 belong to their parents
No one may be beaten or killed
Free upon 13th birthday
Parents may not decided who their child marries after age 18.

Posted at 12:43 PM PST December 7, 2007 | Comments (0) |

Creating a New State

The 6 Super Deaf Power class (7/8 grade) are recreating politics as it was back in 1781. The task was for teams of students to create their own states. Students were divided into teams and given some background information on their state. They created a state name, motto, rights and rules of their state. They also wrote a state song. Next week they will try to conduct business and solve problems as they but follow the criteria set by the Articles of the Confederation. The following blogs are excerpts of their work.

Posted at 12:37 PM PST December 7, 2007 | Comments (0) |

This Week in Social Studies

Every morning the dolphins greet each other and talk about how they feel. They share their activities using vocabulary: yesterday, today and tomorrow. They watch each other and turn-take appropriately.

The 6 SDP are working on their post American Revolution states. Divided into teams they created a state name, flag and money. They created state rights and rules to support those rights.

Blue has been working on the phrase "insure domestic tranquility" looking at what constitutes a peaceful place.

V-Art is learning how to read a timeline. They ran around on a giant timeline depicting WSD's history.

Posted at 7:12 AM PST December 2, 2007 | Comments (0) |

Money Talks

What can money tell us about a country? This is one question students explored this week. Students looked at the coins I brought back with me from Australia. They noticed that Queen Elizabeth's portrait was on the front of each coin. They determined that Australia had ties to Britian. The back of each coin had images of a platypus or a kangaroo. An image of an aboriginal man was on the back of a$2.00 coin. All of these images gave students information about life in Australia.

Posted at 5:41 AM PDT October 5, 2007 | Comments (0) |

Koala & Kangaroo

The Koala hates to have her lunch interrupted.

Mother bathes while the baby kangaroo watches.

Posted at 11:14 AM PDT September 29, 2007 | Comments (0) |

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