First Semester Essay:   WV Studies Contrasting Governments

 

            It is time to write our first semester essay on government.  Your essay will be a descriptive essay contrasting the Federal Government (ch. 5) with the State Government (ch.6) .  It will consist of five paragraphs.  The first paragraph will be your introduction started by your thesis statement then an overview of how you will contrast the executive, legislative and judicial branches.  The following three paragraphs will contrast each of the three branches of the two governments one at a time.  The final paragraph will be your conclusion. In your conclusion you should highlight the similarities of the branches further contrasting with your previous paragraphs.  Information can be utilized from your notes on chapters five and six or you can use information from the internet, etc. 

 

You must complete the chart on the back of this paper worth 50 points.

Your essay will be worth 100 points.

Your essay cannot be written in first person.  ( no, “I am going to tell you about”  “I think”  “You can conclude” ,  stuff like that.

The following rubric will be used to grade your essay.

Rubric  First Sem. Essay.   Use of first person will automatically take off 30% from your total grade.

1st paragraph-  Introduction  5 sentences minimum, grammar correct, well stated thesis, accurate support sentences-  20 pts.  3 to 5 grammar mistakes, thesis somewhat problematic, some support sentences are not accurate  15 pts.  Inaccurate thesis,  more than 5 grammar mistakes,  support sentences do not support thesis  10 pts.    5 sentence minimum not met-  5 pts.

2nd paragraph-  First branches contrasted  5 sentences minimum, grammar correct, well stated topic sentence, accurate support sentences-  20 pts.  3 to 5 grammar mistakes, topic sentence somewhat problematic, some support sentences are not accurate  15 pts.  Inaccurate topic sentence,  more than 5 grammar mistakes,  support sentences do not support thesis  10 pts.    5 sentence minimum not met-  5 pts.

3rd  paragraph-  Second branches contrasted  5 sentences minimum, grammar correct, well stated topic sentence, accurate support sentences-  20 pts.  3 to 5 grammar mistakes, topic sentence somewhat problematic, some support sentences are not accurate  15 pts.  Inaccurate topic sentence,  more than 5 grammar mistakes,  support sentences do not support thesis  10 pts.    5 sentence minimum not met-  5 pts.

4th  paragraph-  Third branches contrasted  5 sentences minimum, grammar correct, well stated topic sentence, accurate support sentences-  20 pts.  3 to 5 grammar mistakes, topic sentence somewhat problematic, some support sentences are not accurate  15 pts.  Inaccurate topic sentence,  more than 5 grammar mistakes,  support sentences do not support thesis  10 pts.    5 sentence minimum not met-  5 pts.

5th paragraph-  Conclusion – Further contrasting by highlighting the similarities of the three branches  of state and federal government 5 sentences minimum, grammar correct, well stated topic sentence, accurate support sentences-  20 pts.  3 to 5 grammar mistakes, topic sentence somewhat problematic, some support sentences are not accurate  15 pts.  Inaccurate topic sentence,  more than 5 grammar mistakes,  support sentences do not support thesis  10 pts.    5 sentence minimum not met-  5 pts.

 

 

 

 

Complete the chart -  First Sem. Essay Contrasting governments  State and Federal governments.

Thesis statement ( write your thesis statement in the next cell                                                   >
2nd paragraph -  branch contrasted  -  list -  > and contrasts.    Topic sentence:	3 to 4 differences:
3rd  paragraph -  branch contrasted  -  list -  > and contrasts.   Topic sentence:	3 to 4 differences:
4th  paragraph -  branch contrasted  -  list -  > and contrasts.   Topic Sentence:	3 to 4 differences:
Conclusion  list the similarities that you will state in your conclusion.   Topic Sentence:	3 to 4 similarities

Chapter 4 assessment.

Chapter 4 Assessment Part 3              WV and the Global Economy

Directions:  Pretend you are a young adult out of school and complete the following.

1.      (7 pts.) Create a checking account for yourself and put amount of money that you have in it.

Bank:___________________________ Amount of Money______________________

Write a check from your account for a bill that you might have.

Subtract from your total above and list your new balance__________________________

2.      (7pts.) Create a savings account for yourself and put an amount of money you have in it.

Bank________________________________ Savings amount___________________

Your bank pays 3% on your account, how much would be in your account at the end of the following year.   Amount at the end of the year in your account (with interest for the year)________________________________

3.      7pts.  Buy a Certificate of Deposit -   Amount______________________ for CD

Your bank pays 6% each year for the Amount, the CD comes due in 5 years, How much money do you have at the end of the 5 years__________________________.  (show your math)

4.      (9pts.) Pretend you are a young adult out of school and working.

What is your career?______________________________________

Select an amount of net income from the range $30,000 to $60,000 per. Year.

Considering the 20% rule, excluding a mortgage, how much debt could you take on based on your above income?

________________________________________________.

 

 

Ch. 4 Assessment Part 1         History of the Global Economy

Directions:  For each box of the timeline write two to three complete sentences about an event or events of the history of the global economy.  (see your timeline)   30 points.

The 14th Century- 1301 to 1400	The 15th Century-  1401 to 1500
The 16th Century- 1501 to 1600	The 17th Century-  1601 to 1700
The 18th Century-  1701 to 1800	The 19th Century-  1801 to 1900

Chapter 4 assessment part 2              WV and Global Trade.

Directions:  Complete the following.

1.       Why did WV become more involved in global trade in the 1980’s?  (answer in complete sentence, or sentences)

 

 

2.       List 5 countries that WV exports products produced in WV to and the total amount of those exports for the year 2010.

 

 

 

3.       In complete sentences, list 5 examples of foreign investment in WV.

 

 

 

4.       In complete sentences or a graphic organizer, connect yourself to WV and global trade.

 

 

How Old
When we read about what scientists say about the age of the earth like the formation of coal, how do they know?

Do a web-search of radiometric dating to find out.

Early Industry

This is a display in the museum of ceramics.  Observe the workers, what does this say about the relationships of the early workers in the glass industry.  Why do you think this would be the way?

Economics

What type of sand is used to make glass?  Can it be found in West Virginia?  If so, where?  go to the link to find out  http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2117

Glass Industry

Many of the glass artisans would make objects for themselves from the end of a batch of glass.  Either they had made their quota or the amount of molten glass left was not enough for production.  What do you think the items are in the picture?

Ecomomics

Raw materials -  Take the information from the picture and turn it into a bar graph.

 Virtual Field Trip
Today students we are going to Blenko Glass in Milton West Virginia.  Founded by William J. Blenko in 1921 the company continues to make glass today.  The methods used today date back hundreds of years.  Immigrants like Blenko (from Britain)  brought the skills, knowhow, and technology from Europe with them.  Watch as highly skilled local glass artisans make a handblown glass water bottle.  Answer the questions.

IMG 0057 from Chris Colegrovve on Vimeo.


4.  Why is the mouth of the bottle reheated?

5.  What is the bottle put into at the end do you think?





IMG 0058 from Chris Colegrovve on Vimeo.

1.  What is on the end of the pipe?

2.  Why does the skilled artisan blow on the pipe?

3.  What color does the water bottle turn?

 Glass Industry

 

Go to this link and view the picture.  Compare this furnace with the one pictured here.  Write a five sentence paragraph comparing  and contrasting the two furnaces.
http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/media/21882  

Glass Industry

 Michael J. Owens.

Owens was born in Point Pleasant in Mason County, the son of Irish immigrants.  He worked with his father in a Mason County coal mine when he was nine years old.  After getting hurt in a slate fall in the mind, his family moved to Wheeling where he became a furnace tender for the Hobbs-Brockunier glass works.  By the age of fifteen he had become a skilled glassworker.  The owner of a glass factory in Toledo took notice of Owens and made him manager of the plant. 

While there, Owens perfected machinery for blowing tumblers, light bulbs, and lamp chimneys.  He then perfected machinery for the process in making ________________________.

In 1909 he opened a state-of-the-art bottle factory in _________________ WV.

Seven years later, he opened a factory in Charleston becoming the worlds largest producer of ____________________________________.

Write a 5 sentence paragraph describing the effects of Owen's inventions on the glass industry.  (think-workers, price, competition, etc.)

go to e-wv for answers. 



 



Glass Industry and the Geographic Theme of Place.
View the video with your group and do the research.

IMG 1009 from Chris Colegrovve on Vimeo.

WV Birthday

Blenko glass hosted an annual birthday celebration for WV.




What does the pictured item below have to do with it and how many did they make this year?

Glass Industry

The picture below shows glass objects made in two very different ways.  By looking at the picture, try to describe the methods used.

 

( go to webtop to show video clips after giving students time to come up with their answers)

 

After viewing the videos write a 5 sentence paragraph comparing your answer to the videos.

Economics

Support Industries-  Industries that make products that support another industry so that it can be successful.
Example-  The Salt Industry-   needed the boat building industry and the barrel making industry for support.

What industries could be supported by the ceramic objects in the picture.  The ceramics industry was big in West Virginia at one time.  

Blenko Glass 

One of the stalwarts of the glass industry in West Virginia, could be found right here in our town.  William J. Blenko migrated from England bringing with him a knowledge of the color and design of English stained glass.  After failed attempts in the glass industry in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Clarksburg West Virginia, Blenko finally opened a successful factory in Milton producing stained and architectural glass.  Business decline brought on by the great depression, caused him to add new production items to his factory.  

    From what you know about Blenko glass, what do you think he started producing and why? 

What do you think Mr. Williams is doing? (Great HHS teacher)

What do you think Mr. McDonald is holding?
Hint:  sesquicentennial  

Lets watch the video

Ms. Hill holds a tong used to place the hot glass pieces in the annealing oven.
What do you think an annealing oven does?  

In the pictures above and below
What are the two sources of glass raw materials?

Saturday- July 20- We finish up our week at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, our task this time is to make a glass Christmas ornament.  (see link) https://www.pittsburghglasscenter.org/about  The process for making this ornament was similar to that of Blenko (see previous post for June 6).  The steps involved using a blow pipe to get the molten glass, rolling it in colors and then reheating it and processing it into shapes.

Adding Color

       

  

blowing the shape

  

Reheating to maintain the right tempature

Artist come to the center and create works of art and also anatomical models of organisms.

Beside the shop where the glass is blown and shaped, the center also has a torch room where final touches can be made, and beads and other objects can be shaped, and a cold room where glass can be worked by polishing, grinding or cutting.

Friday-  We begin our day in Pittsburgh going to the Carnegie Museums endowed by the Pittsburgh industrialists Andrew Carnegie who made his fortune in the steel industry in the area. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie  The museum is a wonderful institution for the city, and a great place to visit and learn.

One display is a recreation of what the coal swamp would have looked like.  These swamps were the materials for our vast beds of coal found in West Virginia today.  What animal is in the for-ground of the swamp? 

The Appalachians 300 million years ago.

In the Afternoon we went to Phipps Conservatory phipps.conservatory.org/ it was an excellent to see the many types of plants found here and around the world.  The exhibits display habitat from around the world.  You get to feel and smell what it would be like in an Indian tropical forest or a desert in the southwest all in one place.   

Phipps uses glass sculptures to enhance its displays. What extinct animal is represented in the picture below? 

Mosser Glass Cambridge Ohio

Thursday-  We leave wheeling and head for Cambridge Ohio to visit Mosser Glass.  Mosser was started by Tom Mosser in the 1960's making pressed glass.   Mosser makes wonderful pieces of glassware and also Medical glass equipment and specialty pieces like the 1927 Ford lenses being produced for a California car restoration business.  

Mosser Glass-  Heating edges of a pitcher to smooth it.
Show pieces made by Mosser

Mold and plunger at Mosser

In the pressed glass process, how does this work?  With your group research and find out.

Many of the molds used at Mosser are made in West Virginia.

Finished lens (see picture 1 )After leaving Mosser we head for Pittsburgh PA to check into our Hotel for the rest of our trip.  We will be visiting museums a conservatory.  Saturday we will be making glass at the Pittsburgh Glass Center. 

Pittsburgh PA

                                      The Monongahela and Allegheny join to form the Ohio  

Wednesday-  Today we travel up river to the very top of the Northern Panhandle.  We start the day across the Ohio River in East Liverpool OH which is across the Ohio River from Newell WV home today of Homer Laughlin China Company.  Homer Laughlin China Company started in East Liverpool and then in 1906 relocated its new factory buildings across the river into West Virginia because East Liverpool's development had filled all the available suitable land.  Anyway, we started in East Liverpool because that is the location of the Museum of Ceramics.

Many pottery factories started in East Liverpool in the 1820's because of its _________________ , the area had the Ohio River, Railroads, available clay and a willing workforce.  Most of the potters came from Stafford England mainly from the town of Stoke-On -Trent.  Potteries were very family oriented, often whole families would work a production line.  Because they were paid by piece work, family control made for efficiency thus more money for the family.

Replica of whole family working in a pottery- Museum of Ceramics. 

Many pottery factories were located in East Liverpool, including Homer Laughlin which as stated above moved much of its works to Newell WV in the early 1900's.  Laughlin's paternalistic tendencies toward his business and workers led him to build the bidge from Ohio to Newell, which the company still owns, and to provide water and sewer for the town.  People still pay their water bill at the factory.  Laughlin also provided free movies for the town and a zoo.  The zoo did not last too long.  Laughlin bought in a companion polar bear for the one he already had.  The companion bear was introduced to its mate in front of a group of school children.  Both bears were male and the horrified children looked on as one bear proceeded to maul the other to death.

The museum had a plethora of exhibits of ceramics from the area from the beginnings to modern times.

Video of the production line at Homer Laughlin

We then toured the Homer Laughlin factory in Newell.  Unlike many of the glass businesses we visited, this company is doing very well.
Why do you think this company is doing so well?

The company pays well and has employees that are 2nd, 3rd, even 4th generation employees.  Raw materials for china are many and come from all over the world.  Some are feldspar, silica, limestone, and calcium carbonate etc.  Many of the modern production lines are completely automated although workers take the finished product from the line and process it.

Raw Materials to make china

Between trips we went to the Point of Beginning.  The point of beginning was the marker for the geography line from which the obligations of the Land Ordinance of 1785 were started.  As you know from class, the land ordinance authorized the survey of the Northwest Territory that congress added to the United States.

What are some of the geographic differences between Ohio and Virginia (later West Virginia) due to this survey?

Tuesday-  Today we travel downriver from Oglebay Resort (Wheeling) where we are staying to Paden City which is on the border of Tyler and Wetzel Counties.  Paden City is home to the Wissmach Glass Company which started in 1903.  Unlike the other glass producers that we have visited so far, that facility produces stained sheet glass.  Like the other places that we have visited, this facility used furnaces to heat and melt glass cullet or they use the basic ingredients, soda ash lime and sand, to make molten glass.  Colors are created by adding certain ingredients like metals.  Glass is dipped from the furnace in iron ladles from two different furnaces giving the sheet its unique color.  No to sheets of glass produced this way is exactly the same.  The glass is poured from the ladles onto a metal table and mixed by two workers with what looks like iron stubby pitchforks.  Then it is raked by the forks into a roller which forms the sheet onto a table below.  Another worker pushes the sheets(about 32 in. by 84 in.) onto a 125 ft. conveyor where the glass cools. At the end of the conveyor two workers cut the sheets to size to be packed for shipping or storage by yet another worker.  They produce 18 patterns and over 5000 different shades and colors.  Sand for the process is acquired from Berkeley Springs WV and Gore VA.  Soda Ash comes from Wyoming and the lime used comes from Greer Industries based near Morgantown.

Mixing two ladles of glass of two different colors preparing to run it through the rollers to make a glass sheet.

Wissmach Glass is shipped to customers around the World to places like the Middle East, Germany Australia, and across the U.S.  Why do you think this would this be the case? List 4 possible reasons to discuss.  

After lunch in New Martinsville WV we went back to Paden City WV to Marble King.  Marble King produces marbles for many uses and they are used in many places.  After a 1958 fire, Marble King moved to a closed glass factory site, today the building is over 100 years old.

Marble King furnace- Marble King marble making machines would be in front of the furnace.  Out of service due to electrical outage due to storm.

Marbles are made mostly of cullet so Marble King gets scrap glass from many sources.

Cullet for marbles Marble King

After having engineering students from WVU come and assess their furnaces, they designed and built a new one changing the system of how they make marbles slightly.  Hurricane Katrina's effect on rising  gas prices caused them to realize a savings of 30%.  Innovative thinking of this sort has led to marbles being purchased for use in scrubbers that remove particulates from power plant emissions, for medical uses, and as inert filler in wine making allowing for a higher quality wine.  Marbles are still used by children for the game marbles.

What might be some other uses of marbles?  List as many as you can with your group and discuss, then discuss with the whole class.

On our return trip to Wheeling we went to Moundsville in Marshall County and saw the penitentiary which operated from 1866 to 1995.  Across the street from the penitentiary is the Grave Creek Mound, which is the largest of its type in the United States.  Beside the mound, is a museum and archaeological facility with many artifacts from the earliest West Virginians to Civil War era artifacts.  Beside the mound is a garden with the agricultural crops that the ancient civilizations raised.

Seven crops can be found in the garden, what do you think they are?

Monday-  After leaving Huntington WV this morning, our first stop was at the town of Williamstown WV.  The first business we visited was Gabbert cullett-  Cullet is glass that has already been made from sand, soda ash and lime.  Companies that use or make glass can use cullet to make new glass or to color clear glass without having to add metals, chemicals etc. to make g eelass from scratch.  At Gabbert, glass is brought in from all over and sorted by color then resold by the pound.  The current owner, Frank Lowe's, customer base has dwindled  over the last 20 years.

Our next visit was to  Fenton Art Glass.    Frank and John Fenton were glassworkers for other glass producers who decided to start their own glass production factory.  Using an investment of $284.86 they began production in 1907. W They pioneered the technique of making iridescent  or carnival glass.  During the 1920's workers from Europe came to Fenton bringing knowledge and techniques not known in this country.  The 1930's brought the development of cranberry glass.  The 1940's saw the innovation of the hobnail design giving the glass a bumpy texture.  This glass became Fenton's bread and butter item.  In the 1970's they developed limited edition items, the 80's saw a partnership with QVC.   Fenton ceased production in 2011, now they only sell and make beads and sell inventory from their storage.
We ended the day at the Oglebay Glass Museum in Wheeling WV.  The museum has a resident glass blower who makes items for the museum gift shop.  Four of our participants got to work with the artisan to make glass items.  The museum displays items only made at glass factories in Wheeling.  Items are from Hobbs- Brockunier, Hobbs, Central, and Northwood glass factories.  Also displayed is china made at the Warwick China Company.

What factors do you think led to the development of the glass and ceramic industries in Wheeling WV?