5 x 5 for 5th Grade
5 Vocabulary
1. Indentured: Any deed, written contract or sealed agreement
2. Mercantilism: Mercantile practices or spirit, commercialism the old economic theory the power of the nation is directly related to the power of the nation's economy/money/commerce/trade
3. Convict: to prove or declare guilty of an offense a person proved or declared of offense
4. Buccinator: The cheek muscle that allows you to sip through a straw
5. Trochlea: The "pulley" that carries one of the six eye muscles allowing you to move your eye diagonally
5 Sentences
1. Today I will do a web quest on indentured servants.
2. The new world is so important to mercantilism because of the raw materials that make the goods.
3. People that were convicts got immediately put on boats to go to the New World after they were done in jail.
4. In "my human body" I will probably use a balloon for the buccinator.
5. In my science book they say that you can see the trochlea but I don't think you really can.
5 Facts & Details
1. The tallest geyser is in New Zealand and has erupted to 1,500 feet!
2. Guinness book of world records holds a record for the largest wildlife cake, which is a bird seed cake
3. The bird seed cake weighed 2,843 pound!
4. Chad Netherland from the USA holds the record for the longest time restraining a plane.
5. Chad held on to it for 1 minute and 6 seconds!
5 Questions
1. What was the effect of new arrivals to the colony? A: Added hardships like housing and food
2. When did the Pilgrims makes full payment on their debt to the Virginia Company? A: In 1627
3. Who were the two Pilgrims who fought a duel? A: Edward Doty and Edward Leister
4. Who was the Pilgrim who was executed after committing a murder? A: John Billington
5. Were there any marriages between Mayflower passengers after arriving in Plymouth? A: Yes John Alden and Percilla Mullins were married (My ancestors)
5 Math
*Sophie and I worked through a tricky math word problem today involving sports scores. We worked through the two relating problems together from the book 5 Minute Math Problem of the Day. She gets credit for answering 5 questions for her 5 x 5.
Activities
Gray's Anatomy 1 page, working on the neck muscles
Math workbooks I page Guinness, I page Sylvan—division with remainders
Web Quest: Indentured Servants
January 2011 Indentured Servants in Colonial America WebQuest
- Follow Link: http://www.ushistory.org/us/5b.asp
A: Read the first two paragraphs. Then read the caption of the image and Copy, Paste & Save As in file AASchool as "Indentured 1"
B: What is the "Heatright System"? A: The "master" or "leader" of the colony need workers for their land and promises the workers a reward of land or money for working for them for a period of time example: 7 years
C: What are "freedom dues"? A: What is given to the indentured servant after their work is done such as Gun, Clothes, food, and land
D: What percent of indentured servants lived to earn their freedom? A: 40%
E: What is the term used to describe the people who earned their freedom dues and were forced west to claim their promised land? A: pioneers
F: What system of labor do wealthy landowners prefer to indentured servants? A: African slavery
- Follow the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7_0dPzGiE
A: Watch Video
B: What is another word for "contract"? A: the indenture
C: Are indentured servants allowed to be married? A: NO!
D: What were most indentured servants back in England? A: Convicts
E: What 3 things have the master of the indentured servants promised to do? A: Give them freedom dues, pay for the voyage to the new world, food and housing
F: What is one of the "labor intensive" crops that the colonies needed people to work? A:tobacco
3. Follow link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html
A: What is the name of the freed black servant who owned property and indentured servants himself in the colony of Virginia? Anthony Johnson
B: According to the article, what is the name of the first black slave in the colony of Virginia and in what year was his sentence made? A: "Antonio the negro" 1625
C: What happens in Jamestown in 1676? A: It gets burned by the indentured servants
D: According to the article, why by the year 1705 had so many colonies legally recognized black men and women and other non-Christian slaves as "real estate"?
A: They didn't want to deal with promising the indentured servants, black people didn't have to be indentured they weren't really human according to whites, they were "animals"
- Follow Link: http://virginiavignettes.org/2007/07/what-part-did-indentured-servants-play-in-early-virginia/
A: Read vignette.
B: Enlarge the image in the top left of the page. Save As in AASchool as "Indentured 2" and Copy and Paste here:
Skating 1 + hour private lesson
Maestro Colonial Book Summary pg 35-end: "As America and Canada's civilization was enlarging, the trade triangle was established with flour, sugar, tar, and iron bars from New English were going to England, slaves, spices, and gold dust were heading from Africa to the islands of the Caribbean, molasses, rum and slaves were sent to New England, forming the triangle. But the colonists in the New World were getting mad. They wanted their own country. King James II did not like it. He still wanted them to be subjects of him. That's where the Revolutionary War began with the Stamp Act, the taxes, and the Boston Tea Party.
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