WV Colored Orphans Home Book Creator instructions.

WV Colored Orphans Home, Instructions for completion of book using i-pad app. Book creator

1.  http://www.wvculture.org/history/africanamericans/wvcoloredorphans02.pdf  Go to this site and display the Historical description (first 2 paragraphs) and read with the students, have them ask questions as a basis of discussion.  (purpose is so the understand what the home was and where it was.

2.  Students will then go to the book creator app. on their i-pads and go through the tutorial if they are unfamiliar with the app.

3.  Then they will begin their books,  First they will complete the cover. On the cover they will have a title for their book, a picture of the orphanage, and one other item of their choice.

4.  On page 2-3 students will define and give examples of Jim Crow Laws and segregation.  students should have text, pictures, a famous quote on the topic and 2 other items of their choice.

5.  On pages 4-5 students will describe the WV Colored  Orphans  Home. This will be accomplished using a search engine.  On these pages students should have,  3 pictures, 3 paragraphs, and 1 source document.

6.  On pages 5-6 students will compare/contrast the WV Colored Orphans Home with the WV Children's Home at Elkins in Randolph Co. (for white Children) 

7.  On pages 7-8 students will  write 5 statements of conclusion based on the information in their book.

8.  pages 9-10 students will cite their sources and list the page number in their book that links to the citation.

Reconstruction Vocabulary

Social Changes:  Vocab.   Complete frayer models for the following.

Freedmen, Feedman's bureau, disfranchised, Ku Klux Klan.

 

Political Changes:    Fill in the following as we go over it.

          After the Civil War, WV and VA had unfinished business to settle.  One was the amount of debt of VA's debt WV was required to pay.  In 1919, 56 years after the states creation, the US Supreme Court ruled that WV owed VA 14,562,867.  WV, the poor state that it was didn't have that kind of money, so they paid some in cash, then paid the rest in ___________ (notes that are proof of debt that are paid in payments with interest added).

Social Changes:

          After the 15^th Amendment gave freedmen all political rights, former confederate states created laws to limit the vote to certain groups.  _________________ was a tax that was required to vote.  This denied _________________ the vote.  Another way to deny the vote was the______________________.   A third way to deny voting was the _______________________ which required your grandfather to have been registered to vote.

 

Labor Unions:

          In order the fight unionization in WV, companies required workers hired to sign ________________________ (a condition of employment stating not to join a union or be evolved in union activity).  Workers at one company who were found to be involved in union activity would be placed on a ______________________ which was shared with other companies in the state.  Often companies would fight workers with the courts.  They would get a judge to issue an _____________________, then those not in compliance would be arrested.  Striking workers would often be replaced with ____________________ who were often immigrants.

bonds, poll tax, freedmen, literacy test, grandfather clause, yellow-dog contract, blacklist, injunction, scabs.

 

 

Vocab quiz words for Friday Jan. 16

I-pad    Unit Vocabulary                                                                      Name:

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Geology:         Coal is found below the surface of WV in layers or 1. strata .  Layers of coal are also refereed to as 2. seams .  Seams may be inches to several feet thick.  Seam thickness and position relative to the surface determine how the coal will be mined.  The seams of coal were once dead plants in vast swamps.  Low oxygen caused the plant material to turn to 3.peat.   Time, heat, and pressure turned the peat into 4. lignite. From which coal was formed.

History: 

Ancient man used “the burning rock” coal near the surface for many activities.  To mine coal on a vast scale, businessmen developed machines and procedures to accomplish the task.  This 5.mechanization led to the modern machines used today to mine coal.  Coal near the surface is mined by a method called 6. surface mining where the soil and top layers of rock are removed to expose the coal seam from the surface.  Giant machines scoop up the coal.  Today the site is reclaimed making the land useful rather than leaving it as barren moonscape.  Seamed deeper in the earth are mined by 7. shaft mining .  Shafts from the surface allow men and equipment access to the coal.  Once there,miners practice 8. room and pillar mining .  The room is the area left hollow by the mined coal the pillar is left to hold up the earth above the room.  Nature will not leave an empty space, so open areas under ground either cave in or fill with water.  Mining is extremely dangerous.

Culture and immigration:

            Because coal was found in remote areas of WV, the coal company not only built the mine but also many times built a 9. company town  which provided the miner and his family everything necessary for life.  Many companies even had their own company money with which they paid their workers.  It was called 10. scrip  and could only be used at the coal company store.  Because there was not enough native labor, coal companies ofter recruited 11. immigrants from the major port cities of the east coast to come and work in these towns.  Often, company stores charged very high prices because the miners could spend their scrip nowhere else.  This along with dangerous working conditions and long hours (miners worked 6 or 7 days a week for 12 hours each day) led some miners to form unions and go on strike.  But because the company owned your house, often they would send mine guards to pile the miner's stuff in the road and 12. evict the family.  They had nowhere else to go.

Management vs. Labor:

            Another problem miners faced because the got paid for the weight of a loaded coal car, was 13. cribbing .  The coal company scales would be rigged to underweight the car thus cheating the miner out of money.  These conditions caused miners to form 14. labor unions and to go on 15. strike to try to make their situation livable.  The companies fought unions and strikes vigorously using law enforcement and 16. mine guards  to fight the miners.  An example would be the 1902 attack on miners at Stanoford Mountain in Fayette County.  U.S. Marshalls and Mine guards killed 12 strikers miners in the middle of the night.  This violated the miners constitutionally guaranteed rights, but happened anyway. 

Directions:  Describe a method of study you will use for Friday's test below. 

 

 

Study this week. 

Test Friday:                       Prediction:  how many will you miss on the test_________

                                                            Actual grade on the test__________

Coal good and bad activity directions:

Lesson:

Students will use their i-pads to complete the following

Students will research coal in WV 

How is it good for the state?

How is coal harmful to the state?

Students will write their information on a sheet and cite their sources for the information.   Then students will complete posters on white copy paper, one sheet good, one sheet bad.

Best 40 pts.  ( will be selected to go on 8^th grade bulletin board)

Good 30 pts.

Other 20 pts.

Criteria-  Neat, big lettering, color, and pictures ( drawn)

 

 

Study Guide for the test on Dec. 17

Name:

Date:

Class:

 

 

Unit, Secession, Civil War, and Statehood- TEST- Study Guide

 

Directions:  Use the following to prepare for your test.

 

Know the following terms:

Underground railroad	Insurrection	strategy	moderate
Missouri Compromise	sabotage	blockade	Platform
Compromise of 1850	treason	capitol	secede
Popular Sovereignty	martyr	Proclamation	mandate
States’ rights	ordinance	cabinet	strategy

 

1.      Slavery existed in the U.S. Because of ______________ (crop)

2.      Southern State secession was a result of belief in __________________ or a relatively weak National Government.

3.      Famous Civil War Generals from WV-

4.      WV officially became a state because of President Lincoln's ____________________.

5.      Senator Waitman T. Willey summited an application for statehood in the year ________.

6.      With the Missouri Compromise, __________ entered the Union as a free state, to maintain the balance in congress, _____________ entered as a slave state.

7.      John Brown became a martyr to __________________________.

8.      The compromise of 1850 gave the south a _____________________________.

9.      Virginia, at first did not choose secession, but changed its course when President Lincoln _______________________________________________.

10.  Famous Civil War Battles in WV were:

 

 

Argumentative Writing:

11.  How did John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry lead to the creation of WV?

12.  Why did the Confederate army mostly abandon WV?

13.  What was “Lincoln's Dilemma” in creating a new state from VA?

Use this if you lost your paper.

 

Transportation Assessment:

Directions:  Make a drawing for each of the following to demonstrate understanding of how each topic improved the economics of western Va.  Each scene must have 10 items for detail for full credit.  (you may use some words)  10 points for each panel.

Turnpikes:	Stopovers:
Ferries:	Bridges:
Canals:	Flatboats:
Keelboats:	Steamboats:
Early Steam Engines:	The B&O  Railroad:

 

 

Write a paragraph comparing one on the modes of transportation and it economic effect on WV to one today and its economic effect?  ( 30 points)

Pioneer Project Notes and directions.

Pioneer Project Notes:

Pioneers crossed the Appalachian Mts. With a Horse drawn sled, pots and pans and a few tools. They found land with water for their home.

To claim their property they:

Used Tomahawk Rights:  blazing (scraping off the bark) of trees around the border of the property. Corn Rights:  Planting a crop of corn on the land.  Settlement:  Building a shelter and living on the property was the best claim.

The land had to be cleared:  Girdling trees.  Cutting trees, burning trees. Eventually removing the stumps.

Building Homes:  

Lean-to-  

Log cabin-

Cat and clay chimney

Puncheons -  (flooring)

Loft and ladder.

Food and Clothes:

Everything had to be made by hand:

Horseshoes, farm tools, sleds, weaving looms, spinning wheels, and shoes.  Clothing, rugs, candles, soap, bedding.

Men:  buckskin hunting shirts,  Breeches and leggings , large belt, Knife, bullet bag, powder horn, tomahawk, Moccasins, skin cap.

Women:  dresses, dyed with madder indigo butternut, walnut, bloodroot, hickory, polk, sumac, Oak bark, goldenrod.

Wool or Lindsey Woolsey,  and a sun bonnet.

Some with better means had European clothes. 

Food:  deer, elk, bear, squirrel, rabbit, wild turkey.

Fish mussels, turtles and they raised hogs.

Vegetables:  corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, potatoes.

Corn most important-  roast ears, meal, bread, mush. Hominy

Wild berries in season.

Recreation: 

Group Work:  “ House Raising”  Log Rolling, quilting bees, husking bees. 

Neighbors would visit neighbors and complete these jobs together.

Life skills practice:

Boys-  bow and arrow, animal calling

Girls -  Homemade dolls, house chores, cooking, child care.

All-  Horseshoes, foot racing, fighting, shooting contest, sack races.

Health: 

Poor hygiene-  led to problems and diseases

Families were large -  15 to 20 children were not uncommon- but many did not live to adulthood.

Croup, worms, small pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough and diphtheria, consumption(lung disease) rabies

          Cures:  blood of black cat, Onion or garlic juice, salt, pewter scrapings, herbs, Bleeding, warm bear grease, sassafras tea, catnip tea, smartwood tea, sage tea

 

Pioneer Project Directions:

Create a character:

Name______________________________________

Date born:  (from pioneer times)_________________________

Area from before coming to the frontier:________________________

Area in Western Virginia settled:

Water source:___________________________________

Size of claim:____________________________________

20 points

Draw a picture of your Character: (attach)  Must have period correct clothing from time period. (use notes)

20 points.

Describe 3 meals ate by your character.  (20 points)

Breakfast:

Mid-day:

Evening:

 

Describe 3 things found at the Pumpkin Festival that relate to the Pioneer Days.  In complete sentences.  (20 points)

Item one

Item two

Item three

 

Describe health problems suffered by your character.  (at least one for each period of life. (complete sentences)  20 points.

Early Life:

Mid Life:

What killed them:   What age:

 

Then complete your homemade item.  100 pts. (see attached directions)

 

 

Pioneer Project directions:                      Due Dates: 

 

            Pioneer families had to be self-reliant.  They could not go to the store to get any type of supplies.  Everything they used had to be brought with them from the settlements, traded for, or made by hand by themselves out on the frontier.  To survive they needed to use their skills, wits and materials available on the frontier. 

Your task with this project is to make something that the pioneers would have had to make on the frontier, or a model of said object.  You will have to research your object and write about it in your companion essay and cite your source or sources.  ( Mrs. Kirk, in the library can be of great assistance, she has a section in the library on Appalachian culture.) 

Examples-   ( look around the class at previous items)

·         Model Cabins or lean-tos

·         Toys- dolls, animals, carved figures, games.

·         Articles of clothing

·         Candles

·         Soap

·         Natural dye process

·         Cooking or cleaning utensils

·         Other ideas (check with teacher with idea before beginning)

·         No weapons (knives, bows and arrows, etc.)

Articles:  need to be made of materials that would have been found on the frontier.  Nails would have been limited, cloth would have been Lindsey-woolsey, or wool or leather, in short supply.  Glue would have been natural materials (clay, etc.)  Modern materials may be substituted byt in your description you must explain your substitutions. 

3 Paragraph Descriptive Essay:  Paragraph 1-  describe your research, 5 sentence minimum, Paragraph 2- describe how you made your item, 5 sentence minimum. Paragraph 3- describe your materials, where did you get them, did you substitute materials, what would they have used on the frontier. 

Presentation-  Show us the item and tell us about it. 

 

 

Grading rubric:

Item:	Mastery:	Partial Mastery:	Novis:
Finished product 60 pts.	Complete, well made, effort shown in product 60   55   50	Complete, but lack of effort shown in quality of the product.  45  40   35	Incomplete, or poorly made with result showing lack of effort. 30  25  20
Descriptive essay 30 pts.	3 paragraphs, no grammar mistakes, Completely described, citation correct 30	3 paragraphs, grammar 3 to 5 mistakes, description incomplete. Citation incorrect. 20	Incomplete,  more than 5 grammar mistakes, Poor description, no citation. 10
Presentation 10 pts.	1 minute, practiced, item well explained 10	Under 1 minute, unpracticed evident, partial explanation. 7	Incomplete description, explanation incomplete. 5