AMERICAN HISTORY- WEEK 7

AMERICAN HISTORY-WEEK 7

Week 7 assignment due October 28, 2013

In addition to your reading and memory verse for Unit 7, please complete the assignments below.  Prepare to turn them in next week and be ready to discuss in class.

Middle School and High School:

Answer the following questions.  Please remember to answer in the way we talked about in class.

Questions on Marbury v. Madison

1.  What is the relationship between the Constitution and legislative acts?

2.  What is “the province and duty of the judicial department”?

3.  Who must decide if two laws are in conflict?

4.  Marshall said that a law repugnant to the Constitution is what?

Questions on Narrative of the Life of David Crockett:  (Book should be completed this week)

1.  Describe the lifestyle that Crockett lived.

2.  How was his lifestyle different from yours?

3.  What would have attracted you to Crockett’s lifestyle?

4.  What would have kept you in the city?

5.  How was fun mixed with harsh conditions on the frontier?

6.  Describe one humorous incident Crockett relates.

7.  What was the importance of having neighbors on the frontier?

8.  What skills did Crockett have that you don’t have?

9.  How is Crockett’s description different from the perception you had of the frontier?

10.  What did you enjoy about Crockett’s writing style?

We will be reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass starting in Unit 8.