Social Studies, 7th Grade Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Steve Fishman
- Term
- 2025-2026 School Year
- Department
- 7th Grade
May 2026
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Upcoming Assignments
Due:
Reading chapter 6
Read up to, but not including, "The Oregon Treaty" on page 114.
Past Assignments
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Storyboard due
Storyboard assignments will be due on Thursday.
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Chapter Review
The Chapter review is Due Tuesday.
- -Define: Manifest Destiny, The Great Migration, Oregon Donation Land Act, Cholera, and Transcontinental Railroad.
- -Questions: 1-11, 13, 14. (all except 12)
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Note check
Digital notes are due by Monday. You can email me or show them to me in class.
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Review questions
Here are the tasks for the first chapter review:
Part 1: Ezra Meeker
Part 2: Manifest Destiny
Part 3: Questions 1-4 (this will require reading the first page of the handout)
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Study for test tomorrow
Here are the topics that might be covered on the test tomorrow (as we discussed in class). These are also the topics due for the review assignment (in your packet) given on Monday.
1. Jason Lee, Daniel Lee, Marcus Whitman, Henry H. Spalding, Father Francois Norbert Blanchet.
2. Northwest Company, Hudson's Bay Company, American Fur Company, Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
4. Questions 1-20
1. Which two countries took part in the inland fur trade in the Pacific NW?
2. What particular kind of wearing apparel became fashionable in Europe and aided the growth of the fur trade? What animal was the main object of the inland fur trade?
3. What was the first fur company to come into the Pacific NW?
4. Many trappers had Canadian backgrounds. Explain who they were.
5. What happened to Fort Astoria during the War of 1812? What happened to that for and the surrounding land after the war ended?
6. What did the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company do in 1812?
7. What was different about the way that fur traders and settlers wanted to use the land?
8. What major change did the Hudson's Bay Company make in the early 1840s?
9. What happened to the American Fur Company after the War of 1812?
10. What was different about the way the Rocky Mountain Fur Company handled its trapping?
11. How did many former mountain men assist missionaries and settlers after the fur trade ended?
12. What protestant congregation sent the first missionaries and settlers after the fur trade ended?
13. How did the emphasis of the Lee mission change?
14. Which Protestant congregations combined their efforts to send the Whitman party to the Pacific NW? In what ways did this group differ from the Methodists in the kinds of persons they chose to send as missionaries?
15. What did Marcus Whitman decide to do when he approached the Rocky Mountains?
16. How closely did the Waiilatpu, Lapwai, and Tshimakain missions cooperate in their work?
17. Why did Marcus Whitman return East? What did he bring with him on his return trip?
18. How many persons were killed in the Whitman massacre? How many escaped and what happened to them?
19. What happened to the killers of the Whitmans?
20. Tell three ways that the Catholic priests conducted their missionary work differently from Protestant missionaries.
Due:
CH 4
- Read to "The Massacre"
- I: John Colter-Daniel Lee
- IV: 11-14
Due:
CH 4
- Read to Missionaries
- I: Finish all for "Fur Trade"
- IV: 5-10
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Jedediah Smith Bonus Assignment
- 10 Sentence paragraph about the accomplishments of Mr. Smith
- HANDWRITTEN
- Use video link for information
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jedediah+smith
Due:
CH 4
- Read to "The New Fort Vancouver"
- I: John McLoughlin-George Simpson
- II: Northwest Company-Hudson's Bay Company
- IV: 1-4
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CH 3
- Finish I, II, IV
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Ch 3
- I: Alexander Mackenzie - York
- IV: 15-17
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Ch 3
- Read to page 56 and stop at the third paragraph ("The heart of North America remained blank...")
- There will be two entry ticket questions at the beginning of class
- One on Nootka Sound and one on George Vancouver and Charles Wilkes
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CH 3
- Read to "Nootka Sound Controversy"
- I: Juan Perez - Don Martinez
- II: Territorial Claim - Journal
- IV: 6-11
Due:
CH 3
- I: Robert Gray-Juan de Fuca
- II: Columbia Rediviva-Northwest Passage
- IV: 1-5
Due:
CH 16
Test Tomorrow
- Review Columbus goal of the new world expedition
- Essays
- How were the ancient empires of Latin America alike? How did they differ?
- How did the Spanish set up the encomienda system? Was it successful? Why or why not?
- How were the Spanish conquistadors, Cortez and Pizzaro alike? How did they differ?
Due:
CH 16
- Finished workbook
- Start "Let's Remember and Let's Consider"
- You will have 10-15 minutes in class to work on it
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CH 16
- Read to "Revolution in South America"
- WB 122
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CH 16
- Read to "Guerilla Warfare in the Jungles"
- WB 120-121
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CH 16
- Read to "Conquest of Peru"
- WB 119
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CH 16
- Read to Spain and the Native Americans
- WB 116-117
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CH 16
- WB 115
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CH 14 Test
- Make sure your workbook is perfect
- Extra study on "Lets Consider" 2-4
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CH 14 Review
- Lets Consider and Lets Remember
- Vocab: Choose 10 words
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CH 14
- Read "Peter the Great" and "Napoleon v Russia"
- WB 98-99
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Ch 14
- Read "Dynasty of the Romanovs"
- WB page 97
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CH 14
- Read "Early Russian History"
- WB 94
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CH 14
- Read to "Early Russian History"
- WB 93
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CH 13
- Finish "Lets Consider" and "Lets Remember"
- Essays questions for Test
- Why did Kush disappear?
- What were the effects of slave trade upon African life?
- How did the European/West African slave trade come about?
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CH 13
- Finish reading chapter
- Finish Workbook
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CH 13
- Read to Sudanic Civilization
- WB 88
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CH 13
- Read to page 308
- WB 87 and top of 88
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Africa Map
- Please include all countries in Africa, including Madagascar
- Each country needs to be labeled
- Make sure touching countries are not the same color
- Use printer paper and make it vertical
- Needs to be at least half the size of printer paper
- No rivers, mountains, or lakes, only the countries
- I have provided a link with an example
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/africa-political-map-with-country-names-isolated-vector-illustration-gm1412428562-461856788
Due:
CH 13
- Read to "Africa's Earliest Civilizations"
- WB 85-86
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CH 12
- Finish review
- Lets Remember and Lets Consider
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CH 12
- WB 83
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CH 12
- Read to "The Great Empires of India"
- Wb 81
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CH 12
- Read to "Origins of Indian Religion"
- WB page 81
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CH 13
- Read to "Aryan Conquerors"
- WB 79-80
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Japan Storybook
- We will begin presentations tomorrow
- Rubric is attached for your viewing
- Two points deducted for every day late
Due:
CH 11
- Vocab (10), Lets Consider, Lets Remember
- Extra study for test
- Era of the Shoguns
- Catholicism comes to Japan
- Essay
- How did the rapid development of Japan in the 20th century come about?
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CH 11
- Finish reading chapter and workbook
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CH 11
- Read to Commodore Perry
- Workbook 76
- Remember, we will be reading our Haikus in class tomorrow!!
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CH 11
- Read to "Traditional Japanese Arts"
- WB page 75
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CH 10 Test
- Reminder, only workbook for test,
- Two out of the following three will be essay questions (5-6 sentences)
- Why do we call China one of the greatest civilizations of the world?
- What difficulties did Christian missionaries face in the spreading the Gospel in China.
- What went into making the Great Wall?
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CH 10
- Finish reading chapter
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CH 10
- Workbook page 69
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CH 10
- Workbook 68
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CH 10
- Workbook page 67
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CH 10
- Workbook page 2
- Read to Sons of Han
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9/11 Assignment
- Three paragraphs handwritten
- First: What was the reason for the attacks according to President Bush?
- Second: What was the reason for the attacks according to Osama Bin Laden?
- Third: With resources viewed in class, which side has more justification
- Five sentences for each paragraph
- Use evidence from from both speeches to support your claims
- Bush speech link
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7S1v1k664&t=8s