5th Grade Social Studies

Vocabulary for chapter 16 is due on Thursday, May 17, 2012.  (vocabulary words:  territory, annex, acquisition, Manifest Destiny, reservation, expedition, boundary, cede)

The students presented their billboard projects related to the colonies.  They did a wonderful job!  (see pictures below)

 We will continue our studies centered on America's past this week.  Chapter 16 of the TCI curriculum will cover "Manifest Destiny and Settling the West".  The students will be able to answer the question "How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?"

Objectives: 

• Create an annotated map showing the major U.S. territories acquired in the nation's westward expansion.
• Explain why and how the United States acquired key territories, and depict how this affected the people already living in each region.
•  Write a journal entry as a Cherokee leaving his or her homeland for unknown lands west of the Mississippi River.

Each student has been assigned a username and password in order to access the Social Studies curriculum online.   Your child should have the information in his/her agenda book.   

The website address for the students to access the Social Studies curriculum is:  http://learntci.com.