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Last of the week of the grading period

7th Grade

You need to be working on your Travel Brochures. They are due on Wednesday. I have given you the expectations/rubric. It is a great opportunity to raise a low grade, or a bad opportunity to hurt a borderline grade. Which it is, is up to you.

8th

We have the Constitution Test on Wednesday. You need to know the Preamble, the 7 Articles, and the 27 Amendments. The Articles and Amendments need to be learned in order. You can utilize Youtube for the School House Rock Preamble song. Also if I were you I would break the Amendments up into groups of 5 and learn them that way. It is easier to break them up in smaller chunks and learn them that way.

Good Luck
Mr. Clark

All classes

7Th and 8Th grade, we will play review golf tomorrow to make sure we are ready for the test we will now take on Tuesday. 7Th grade, I was unable to host an online study session tonight so I will back up the test till Tuesday.

Sorry I was not able to post anything about the session until now, but I just walked in the door a few minutes ago.

Hope your studying is going well and we will look at the material tomorrow and answer any last minute questions on the study guide or just from the chapter.

Mr. Clark

8th Grade

All sections of the notes should be done by the end of the day. Tomorrow I will have a study guide for you covering Chapter 7. We will play review golf on Monday and test on Tuesday. Constitution Test is on Wednesday the 16Th. Do not put this off. You have know about it for a week now. You should be well on your way to having that committed to memory.

Section 4 notes and section assessment due tomorrow.

Mr. Clark

7th grade notes

Here is the last section of notes for this chapter

Kenya
Chapter 16
Section 3
Peoples of Kenya
• Where do Kenyans live?
– Highlands surrounding Mt. Kenya
– Coastal region
• Shared Culture
– More than 40 ethnic groups
– Religion and language tie most of these groups together
– Very family oriented (family values)
• Kenya’s Ethnic Groups
– Kikuyu- Kenya’s largest ethnic group
• Live in shambas (small family owned farm)
• Live in round homes
• Grow food and cash crops like coffee
– Maasi- another farming ethnic group
• Seminomatic- some time wander as nomadic and some time settled as farmers
Life in Rural Kenya
• Women mostly grow food
• Men grow cash crops or go to cities to find work
• Kenya gained independence from Britain in 1963
• First president was Jomo Kenyatta
– Social program named Harambee (pull together)
– Used harambee for education, politics, and farming
• Women’s Self-Help Groups
– Women used the idea of harambee to form groups to solve community problems
– Pool money and resources to better life for the communities women
Life in Urban Kenya
• Capital- Nairobi
• One of the largest cities in East Africa
• Industry and Manufacturing
• Working in the City
– Population- 1 million in 1985, 2 million in 2000
– Men go to cities as women stay in rural area
– Most walk to city for work, sometimes up to 10 miles each way
• City Life
– Men in the city practice harambee as well
• Pool money to help their ethnic group
• Return to village on weekends

8th Grade

You should be into Section 3 of Chapter 7 today. Do not forget about the Constitution Test or the Chapter 7 test on the horizon. These will both be great opportunities for grade improvements. the quarter is running out and opportunities to improve your grade are dwindling. Use the grades you have left to bump your grade up and not down.

Mr. Clark

7th Grade Notes

Here are Chapter 16 Section 2 notes

Tanzania
Chapter 16
Section2
Early Reforms After Independence
• Tanzania was created when Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged in 1964
• Challenges for the New Nation
– Independent yes, but very poor and uneducated
– 12 medical doctors for 9 million people
– 120 different ethnic groups
• A National Language
– Since Swahili was most common language spoken in Tanzania, it’s president made it the official language.
– Lingua Franca- Language used for communication among people who speak different first languages.
• One Party System
– Since there were so many ethnic groups in Tanzania, they allowed only one political party, to avoid factions and hatred
– Could be multiple candidates, but only from one party
• Economic Changes
• Uhuru na kazi- freedom to work
• only hard work will end poverty
• Ujamaa-togetherness or being a family
• Work together
• Share resources
• Cooperation would boost production
• Progress and Continued Reform
– By 1985
+ national language
+ very little ethnic conflict
+ Education and literacy rates greatly improved
- Still very poor
- Ujamaa had failed
- Crop production decreased throughout the nation
- A New Era in Economics
- Elimination of the Ujamaa program
- Encouragement of new farming methods
- New seed technology
- Cash crops
- Asked for foreign aid (money)
- Privatization-sale of government owned industry to private companies
- Telephone company
- Air lines
- Result- economy is improving quickly
- Attempts at Political Reform
- Multiparty System- 2 or more political parties
- began this system in 1992
- No change in power led people to believe that the political system was still flawed

7th Grade Notes

Here are 16.1 notes

Ethiopia
Chapter 16
Section 1
Major Religions of Ethiopia
• Christianity and Islam
• Establishment of Christianity in Ethiopia
– Missionaries from Alexandria brought Christianity to Ethiopia
Ethiopian Christians were cut off from other Christians making it easy for Islam to move in
• Spread of Islam into Ethiopia
– Muslim Arabs, over time, controlled trade routes into Ethiopia.
– Eventually Islam over took Christianity
– A Unique form of Christianity
– cut off from other Christians, and surrounded by Muslims, Ethiopian Christians formed Geez
– Geez- a new form of Christianity with its own language and traditions
– Lalibela- capitol of Christian Ethiopia for 300 years
– Churches were below ground and carved out of solid rock
– Christian-Muslim Interaction
– Historically, they have gotten along well
– Skirmishes have occurred once in a while
– 35% Christian
– 45% Muslim
• Contrasts in Daily Life
– Must Ethiopians live in rural areas
– 10% live in cities
• Rural Ethiopia
– Little electricity and running water
– Few cars
– 1st level economic activities
• Farming
• Herding and Fishing
• Woodworking and Beekeeping
• Urban Ethiopia
– most have access to modern conveniences
– Universities and museums & modern hospitals
– Cars
– Trading
– 2nd level economic activities
• Manufacturing & production