Prequel to "Bartleby the Scrivener" + Vocab Quiz Celebration + DBQ on TEOGF

Today the 6th/7th Graders:

• Worked awhile on their Prequel to Bartleby the Scrivener
• Got back their Vocab Quiz over Bartleby Part 2
• Did a superb job analyzing Documents-Based Question - "The Era of Good Feelings" - See student annotations here.

Click above or  here and here to see enlarged maps.
Note: Some sources say all four candidates in the Election of 1824 
were 
Democratic Republicans.

Assignments

For Tuesday, 12/1/15-Prequel to "Bartleby" - Account for the following:

• What might have happened in Bartleby's life from birth to his job at the Dead Letter Office?
• What effect might working at the Dead Letter Office have had on Bartleby?
• What might have happened to him between his stint at the DLO and working as a scrivener at the lawyer's office?
• In all of this be considering what life experiences might have made Bartleby the person he is.

For Monday-Quiz over Spelling/Vocabulary - Brands' Biography of Andrew Jackson, Part 1 (1st 18 words) - If you'd like to see how the words were used in the article, click here.



For Future Reference:
Crash Course Video - Age of Jackson
PBS Documentary on Andrew Jackson
Maps-Indian Removal - here (zoom), here (zoom), here (zoom), here, here, here, here