Annexation of Texas

Students:

• Attended Eucharistic chapel service
• Analyzed a color-coded map on the 1845 Annexation of Texas to the United States
• Received a videomusical answer to the student who asked "Who was Polk?"
• Received a sheet of two primary sources showing opposing viewpoints on the Annexation of Texas

Assignments

For Thursday
1. To Be a Slave

• Read Ch. 3 on "The Plantation"
• Begin working on a pictorial presentation of each reading assignment we've done so far on To Be a Slave, beginning with "Author's Note & Prologue" (on capture in Africa & transport via the "Middle Passage" to America) - Add a subtitle & a brief quotation from the book for each picture.

2. Identifying Points of View (on the Annexation of Texas)

• Answer the questions.
• Draw a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the left margin beside his name and a picture of John Quincy Adams in the right margin beside his name.

For Friday
Have your pictorial presentation caught up with p. 95 by Friday.

For Tuesday - Quiz over Ch. 14 Summary - The Lone Star State