Language Arts Assignments

Language Arts Assignments

Blood on the River

Chapters 1 & 2

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5. Video & Video

6. Figurative Language

7. Video about Pulleys
   Make Your Own

8. Mnemonics

Chapters 3-5

1. Global Wind Patterns 
   *See Picture Below

2. No Link

3. West Indies & Canary Islands
   England on the Map
   *See Picture Below

4. Answer: Much of the sickness aboard ships was due to an unbalanced diet, poor nutrition, and spoiled rations.

5. Literacy Rates (Remember to find the difference you subtract)

6. No Link

7. Beauty Standards

Chapters 6-8

1. Guadalupe Island

2. Figurative Language

3. Heat Source

4. John Smith's Life

5. Mona Island

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7. Florida

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Chapters 9-11

1. Figurative Language

2. Old Point Comfort Video

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4. School Tube (Making Glass)

5. Jamestown

6. Figurative Language

7. Figurative Language

8. Jamestown Arms & Armor

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Bonus: Go to this site to learn the reason why James Town was located where is was. Write each reason and then click on it and write a summary of why that reason was important.

Chapters 12-16

1. Audio Recording

2. Map

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4. Indians & Smith

5. Drought & Lost Colony
   Calculate %

6. The Real Story of Pocahontas 

7. History of Jamestown

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Extras:

How to Fire a Musket

Chapters 17-20

1. Pocahontas

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5. Average Age to Marry & Calculate Mean & Median Age & Calculate Median

6. Etymology & Etymology Dictionary

7. Eat Like a Powhatan 

Chapters 21-23

1. Women in Jamestown

2. Definition of Worthy

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6. Figurative Language

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9. Maggots Video

Chapters 24-Afterward

1. John Smith

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4. -Shakespeare's Life
   -Boys who behaved poorly in school were paddled by their teachers.
   -Refer to the timeline linked above.
   -Wrote 38 Plays

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8. See page 224 in your book

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