History Chapter 14

The Next to Last Czar of Russia



Alexander II

• Sent Russian soldiers to attack the Turkish empire


• Tried to make Russia more modern, western


• Was killed by two assassins

Alexander III

• Inherited throne and discontented subjects


• Said, "I am not prepared to be czar. I know nothing about the business of ruling."


• Was afraid he would be assassinated


• Took away new freedoms of Russian people


• Gave privileges to noblemen


• almost died when assassins bombed his railroad coach


• Left Russia poor and unhappy. Russia was filled with hungry peasants, proud noblement, and unhappy workers

Festival of Lights

On Monday grades 4 - 8 went to The Living Arts Centre to help assemble and decorate trees. A few students had their photo taken by The Mississauga News. Click the link below to view photos. Great work everyone!

http://www.mississauga.com/photozone

Hamlet

Please join us for a wonderful production of Hamlet on Friday December 11 at 7pm.

History - Chapter 13

Brazil's Republic

Five kinds of people in Brazil

• Decendents of Portugese settlers
• South American Indians
• African slaves
• Poor Europeans
• American cotton planters

Pedro II and slavery

• Admired Abraham Lincoln
• Made slave trade illegal
• Freed slaves
• Finally, made slavery illegal

Complaints against emperor

• Plantation owners didn't like giving up slaves
• Soldiers thought they weren't paid enough
• Farmers, merchants, shopkeepers wanted a constitution

The end of the emperor

• Council of State decided Brazil would be republic
• Pedro II went to Paris
• In 1971, Pedro II's body was brought back to Brazil

reminder

CASUAL DAY TOMORROW!

History Chapter 11

THE IRON OUTLAW

Origins of Australia

• First residents were British prisoners
• Joined by free men and women from Great Britain

Australia as a British colony

• Rich conolnists took the best land
• Bushrangers held up wagons carrying gold
• Most famous bushranger was Ned Kelly

Australia as a commonwealth

• Became commonwealth in 1901
• Australians had right to make laws and elect leaders

CARVING UP AFRICA

Countries that claimed control of African land

• Belgium
• Germany
• Portugal
• Italy
• Great Britain

Effects on Africa

• Border lines divided friendly tribes and put hostile tribes together
• European control replaced authority of the family, the clan and the chief

A Wrinkle In Time

We have started a new literature unit! Students will be reading the novel A Wrinkle in Time. It is the responsibility of students to read assigned chapters for homework. Literature classes take place each Tuesday and Thursday. We will be working on various reading comprehension activities, vocabulary and study guide questions. If homework is assigned on Tuesday, it must be completed by Thursday. If homework is assigned on Thursday, it must be completed by the following Tuesday. To help decorate our room I have asked students to look for pictures and articles of strange events. (ufo's, psychics, etc.) Please bring in items by Monday so we can begin creating the A Wrinkle In Time wall!

A BEKA MATH SPEED DRILLS

We have started A Beka Math speed drills! This is to sharpen students math skills and memory of basic multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Speed drills will go home in Friday envelopes, however, they are to be returned. Marks from speed drills do not contribute to overall math grade.

Homework Club

Times for homework club have changed. 3:45 - 4:15 on Mondays and Fridays.

Remember, Remember...

Congratulations to Sophie, Sara, Jenny and Julia who earned 1000 house points for reciting the Guy Fawkes poem by memory. Way to go girls!!!! Go Theta!

History - Chapter 9 Continued

The Sick Man of Europe

I. Russia wanted to invade Ottoman territory.
A. The czar of Russia called the Ottoman empire “the sick man of Europe.”
B. Russia hoped for help from Great Britain.

II. Russia gained its opportunity when the Ottoman Turks attacked Bulgaria.
A. The Young Bulgarians wanted to be free from the Turks and to have a constitution.
B. During the April Uprising of 1876, the revolutionaries took up arms. Almost twelve thousand Bulgarians were killed.
C. The Czar claimed that Russian Christians had to come to the aid of Bulgarian Christians.
D. Russian troops marched south into Ottoman land. They won the war between Russia and the Ottoman Turks.
E. The Ottoman Empire lost half its land.
F. Russia gained most of Asia Minor for itself.

History - Chapter 9

CHAPTER NINE- TWO MORE EMPIRES, TWO REBELLIONS

The Dutch East Indies

I. The Dutch takeover of the East Indies
A. Began with merchants building trading posts
B. Continued when the Dutch government took over the trading posts (and the islands)
C. Agreement between Dutch and British made Acheh a neutral zone
D. Dutch profited from gold, rubies, sapphires, coal, coffee, tea, rubber and the works of farmers who had grown crops for them
E. Invasion of Aceh because Acheh encouraged rebellion.

II. The Dutch war with Acheh
A. Lasted over thirty years
B. Involved the famous freedom fighter Tjoet Nhak
C. Dutch triumph in 1903
D. Dutch spent all the money they had made on the war

Math Games

Math Man
http://www.mathplayground.com/mathman.html



Multiplication Game
http://www.mathplayground.com/balloon_invaders.html



Geometry Game
http://www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html

SPELLING CITY

Click on the website below for extra practice with spelling list words. Play games and test yourself!!!


Lesson 13

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2018239

HISTORY - CHAPTER 8

Chapter 8 – Becoming Modern

Rails Zones and Bulbs Outline

1. Railroads
a) Sped up travel
b) Took people to cities they might not have settled in before
c) Took grain and other goods to far away places

2. Time Zones
a) Divided the earth into twenty-four zones
b) Made it the same time in each zone
c) Made one hour’s difference between zones

3) Electricity
a) Made it possible for men to work after dark


Japan’s Meiji Restoration Outline

Japan became more “modern.”
a) To prevent civil war, the Tokugawa shogun resigned.
b) Although Japan had an emperor, the daimyo controlled the country.
c) The daimyo brought experts to Japan from France, America, and Great Britain to teach the Japanese Western skills.
d) A new constitution was written.

The samurai rebelled in the Satsuma Revolt.
a) They refused to give up their swords.
b) They gathered under the samurai warrior Saigo Takamori.
c) They fought against the new army of conscripts.
d) The rebellion lasted less than a year.

Guy Fawkes Day - November 5

Guy Fawkes


ONE WAY TO EARN EXTRA HOUSEPOINTS!!!!! Memorize this famous poem.

Remember, Remember. the Fifth of NovemberRemember,
Remember, the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, twas his intent
To blow up the king and Parliament.
Three score barrels were laid below
To prove old England's overthrow.
By God's mercy he was catched
With a dark lantern and a lighted match.
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring.
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King.

THURSDAY FIELD TRIP

Our field trip to Stratford is near! On Thursday students are to come to school at the regular time. Immediately following O' Canada and the morning prayer we will be leaving for Startford. Remember to bring your water bottles/snack, bag or back pack and money for lunch. There is also a gift shop if students want to purchase a souvenir.



Have a look at the Bentley's website to view the menu and prices.

http://www.bentleys-annex.com/bentleys.php



Depending on traffic we should be arriving back at school by 5:45. Please be on time to pick up your child.

Math Games

Practice your multiplication skills and have some fun!!!!! Click on the link below and follow the instructions.



Pumpkin Multiples

http://www.mathplayground.com/multiples.html

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Click the links below to watch the BBC Kids cartoon production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZndWMALOo

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqGEQ-832rI&feature=related

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYAfq_7Xjg&feature=related

HISTORY

Wandering Through Africa (1857)

Cape Town in South Africa was a popular city for the Dutch and British to live and trade in the 1850’s. A Scottish Missionary named David Livingstone arrived in Cape Town and began his travels northward, into the center of Africa. He was in search of rivers and other trade routes that would assist Europeans with trade. Livingstone hoped that these routes would promote the trade of ivory, salt, and other goods, rather than slaves. The more that Livingstone travelled through Africa, the more he began to despise the slave trade.

Livingstone was attacked by a lion in the town of Mabotsa. He survived the attack but his arm was severely injured. In 1858, the government of Great Britain gave Livingstone the official job of finding trade routes in Africa under the title of consul. 15 years passed when Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist for the New York Times went to Africa in search of the missing explorer. Stanley found Livingstone and offered to take home to England, but Livingstone refused. Livingstone passed away two years later, his heart buried under an African tree and his body sent back to England.

HISTORY

The Crimean War (1853-1856)

Four factors helped to start the Crimean War.
1)The Turks allowed European countries to take care of holy places.
2)Nicholas 1 wanted Constantinople.
3)England was afraid of Russia.
4)The French decided to make friends with the English.

The Peace of Paris, which ended the war, had three parts.
1)Sevastopol was returned to Russia.
2)Russia gave Turkish land back to the Turks.
3)Russia could not keep warships in the Black Sea.

HISTORY

Japan Re-opens

The four islands of Japan were ruled by a shogun, a military general who inherited his position. Although Japan had an Emperor, power and rule of the country lay in the shogun hands. For 200 years, that shogun had been from the Tokugawa family. The Tokugawa family kept anyone from Western countries (Europe or the Americas) out because they were afraid that Christian missionaries would convert the Japanese Buddhists to Christianity. They did not need missionairies, Western ideas, or goods. So the shoguns passed laws forbidding the Japanese to travel to foreign lands.

In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet of black ships approached Edo Bay. The United States wanted to trade with Japan. American merchants wanted to buy fine Japanese silks and ceramics, and more importantly, coal. The black ships intimidated the people of Japan, finally pressuring them to let Perry and a few of his men on land. Perry handed over a letter from the President of the US to a Japanese governor named Toda. Perry left and returned one year later in 1854. The Japanese realized their army of samurai were no match against the US and agreed to sign a trade treaty.

HISTORY

The Sepoy Mutiny

Many years before the sepoy mutiny occurred, English merchants formed a group called the East India Company and built trading posts along the coast of India. The East India Company began to take control of various cities in India, including Bengal, Calcutta, and Delhi. Many native Indians, both Muslim and Hindu, who agreed to work for the East India Company became soldiers of the British Army. These native soldiers were called sepoys.

In 1857, the governor of Bengal assembled an army and tried to force the English to leave Calcutta. The sepoys began to rebel all over the northwest of India under the leadership of Emperor Bahadur Shah. The well trained British army defeated the sepoys and captured Emperor Shah, finding him guilty of treason. Queen Victoria took India away from the East India Company and announced that India was a colony of Britain. India was governed by the Queen and Parliament with the help of a head official called the Viceroy of India.

FRENCH

Just a reminder that you need a glue stick, large ziplock bag and red duotang for Madame Stella's french class.

REMINDER

PHYS ED - every Friday for the month of September. Remember to bring your gym clothes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. (WHITE SOCKS)

LITERATURE

A Midsummer Night's Dream

We will begin our literature unit reading A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
A number of useful websites have been posted to the left under Website Links.

ST. Jude's Academy is a nut free school.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

We will be playing tennis during the month of September. Remember to bring your phys ed clothing and sunscreen.

NEOPHYTE WEEK BEGINS SEPTEMBER 1

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