Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Wednesday - Nov 28, 2012

7th Grade English.   Pg 212 - 215 in Text.  Read and highlight the article about the 7 year old girl who contracted Plague in Colorado earlier this year. See Mr. Hawley for copies.

8th Grade English:  Begin reading story on page 268 - Stop the Sun.  We are looking at "Themes" in this next unit of stories we will be reading.

10th Grade English:  I read a story book about Odysseus' journeys home afte the Trojan War.  We will finish this story tomorrow.

History:  We continued our notes on the Development and origins of the American Governmental system.  Here are the notes we took today:

 
n  Three specific ideas of importance still with us today are:

1.  Ordered Government: local governments      based on order and specific division of   powers.

2.  Limited Government: government that is       not omnipotent.

3.  Representative Government: the idea that   government represents the will of the people.

 

These ideas had roots in some early influential documents. . .

1.  Magna Charta (“Great Charter”)

n  In 1215 AD, King John was forced to sign this document by local Barons.  The Barons were seeking to protect themselves from the King’s arbitrary decisions. 

The Magna Charta included such basic ideas as:

n  trial by jury        

n  due process of law         

n  protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty or property

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