Homework for the week of January 27, 2014; Due Monday February 3, 2014 Definitions due on Friday, January

31 When in the course of certain educations, it becomes necessary to pursue knowledge in the company of ones own home, it is the duty of such educated peoples to conduct their own studies which we shall hereupon refer to as homework. And here is yours. Signeth thou name here______________________________________________

I. Write the definitions for the following in your own words. Please use a dictionary,
online or in the style of Gutenberg to look up each word. We will have 30 minutes to begin this assignment in the classroom. 1. unfair: 2. just: 3. justice: 4. wealthy: 5. property: 6. merchant: 7. trader: 8. suffrage: 9. constitution: 10. abolitionist: 11. fugitive: 12. convention: 13. Bill of Rights: 14. taxes: 15. abolish: 16. prohibit:

17. resolve: 18. indentured servant: 19. slavery: 20. Iroquois: 21. plantation owner:

Listed below is the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

II. Your job this week is to memorize at least a part of the passage from When in
the Course to ...the Pursuit of Happiness (that includes, of course, all the words in between these phrases) so that you can recite it aloud. Really, it is just one and a half sentences You may choose to memorize the entire preamble.

III. Write the Preamble in your best cursive script on a piece of paper of your
choosing. You may choose to make the paper look old and weathered. There are many, many videos on the internet that can show you how to do this. You can even use a feather quill and write by candlelight :)

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of

the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

IV. Math
A. Fractions, as attached. B. Fifth graders will have math assigned nightly.

V. Reading - 2.5 hours per week. Some students are finishing reading group
work

VI. Constitutional convention on Monday morning. You are invited to dress

your part, if you choose to do so.