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Global History Summer Assignment

posted Jun 18, 2010 6:44 AM by Sabrina Medina

Global History Summer Assignment

Dear Student:

In preparation for your study of Global History 3 & 4 next year, you will be required to complete the following summer assignment. Resources you can use to complete the two sections of the assignment include:

Your notes and worksheets from Global I and II
The Internet
Your local library
Atlases, dictionaries and other text resources

You must submit both sections of the summer assignment to your new Global History teacher no later than Monday, September 13^th, 2010. Late assignments will not be accepted. On Friday, September 17^th you will take an exam based on the two assignments. This exam WILL count toward your grade for the 1^st Marking Period.

I. Vocabulary Review Section

You must complete the following chart with all the required elements. These include:

· The region of origin or importance for each term

· The most specific historical dates for each term. For example:

o For broad terms like “hunter-gatherer” you can write “The Paleolithic Era” or “Before 10,000 BCE”

o For specific events (like “Magna Carta”) you must provide a specific date (1215).

· A clear and well-written definition. You may also include relevant details and examples in order to clarify your definition.

· THE CHART MUST BE FILLED OUT BY HAND. NO TYPED SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

We have provided you with three examples of completed entries below. Please note that for certain thematic terms like “geography” you will not be able to specify dates or regions.

Person, Place or Thing	Region/ Nation	Specific Dates	Specific Definition and Details
1. Geography	N/A	N/A	Definition: The study of the topographic/political features of the Earth Details: Things like rivers, oceans, mountains, national boundaries, etc.
2. Archeology	N/A	N/A
3. Anthropology	N/A	N/A
4. Cartography	N/A	N/A
5. Topography	N/A	N/A
6. History	N/A	N/A
7. Culture	N/A	N/A
8. Artifact	N/A	N/A
9. Paleolithic Age
10. Nomad
11. Hunter-Gatherers	Worldwide	Paleolithic Era 10,000 BCE	Definition: Nomadic people who hunted and collected their food, mostly before the beginning of agriculture and civilization Details: some hunter gatherers existed after the Neolithic Era: Bantus in Africa, Aborigines in Australia, etc.
9. Neolithic Age
10. Domestication
11. Barter
12. Ziggurat
13. Cuneiform
14. Civilization
15. Irrigation
16. Fertile Crescent
17. Code of Hammurabi
18. Hieroglyphics
19. Polytheism
20. Monotheism
21. Direct democracy
22. Indirect democracy
23. Aristotle
24. Pericles
25. Alexander the Great
26. Hellenistic culture
27. Hinduism
28. Buddhism
29. Animism
30. Judaism
31. Christianity
32. Islam
33. Confucianism
34. Daoism
35. Shintoism
36. Reincarnation
37. Caste System
38. Gupta Empire
39. Han Dynasty
40. Silk Road
41. Centralized government
42. Civil service
43. Trans-Sahara trade
44. Mali, Ghana, and Songhai
45. Byzantine Empire
46. Christian Orthodox
47. Twelve Tables
48. Justinian Code
49. Icon
50. Genghis Khan
51. Kublai Khan
52. Feudalism
53. Charlemagne
54. Crusades
55. Commercial Revolution
56. Magna Carta	England	1215	The charter of English political and civil liberties granted by King John at Runnymede in England. Gave birth to a limited monarchy in England.
57. Bubonic Plague
58. Great schism
59. Hundred Years War
60. Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
61. Terrace farming
62. Renaissance
62. Humanism
63. Perspective
64. Machiavelli
65. Vernacular
66. Secular
67. Utopia
68. Protestant Reformation
69. Peace of Augsburg
70. Guild
71. Catholic Reformation
72. Council of Trent
73. Inquisition
74. Reconquista
75. Suleyman the Lawgiver (Suleiman the Magnificent)
76. Islamic Golden Age
77. Tokugawa Shogunate
78. Treaty of Tordesillas
79. Mongol Empire
80. Ming Dynasty
81. Encomienda system
82. Atlantic slave trade
83. Triangular trade
84. Mercantilism
85. Columbian Exchange
86. Printing Press
87. Martin Luther
88. Capitalism
89. Joint-stock company
90. Christopher Columbus
91. Colony
92. Middle passage

II. Geography Review Section

On the following four pages you will find maps with the following titles:

1. The World

2. Europe, Asia and Africa

3. The Atlantic World

4. The Pacific Rim

Directions:

· You must annotate (mark) each of the maps with the list of countries, continents and other geographic features listed in the chart at the bottom of this page.

· You must annotate the map in PENCIL, not pen. And carefully erase any mistakes you make.

· You may NEATLY write names within a country or geographic region ONLY IF THEY FIT WITHIN IT. Otherwise, you must draw a neat line from the geographic feature to an open space on the map or in its margins and write the name of the feature there. These lines MUST BE DRAWN WITH A RULER OR OTHER STRAIGHT EDGE. Hand-drawn lines are unacceptable.

· You MAY NOT color your maps.

The World	Europe, Asia & Africa		The Atlantic World		The Pacific Rim
· Continents: o Asia o Africa o North America o South America o Europe o Australia/Oceania o Antarctica · Oceans: o Atlantic o Pacific o Indian o Arctic	· The Mediterranean Sea		· USA · France · Great Britain · Cuba · Haiti · Dominican Republic · Canada · Italy · Ireland · Germany · Switzerland · Panama	· Guyana · Spain · Portugal · Liberia · Morocco · Nigeria · Ghana · Benin · Togo · Algeria · Mali · Senegal · Tunisia	· USA · Australia · Japan · China · South Korea · North Korea · Indonesia · New Zealand · Chile · Peru · Mexico · Ecuador · Panama
	· Sudan · Nigeria · Iran · Algeria · South Africa · France · Great Britain · Germany · Saudi Arabia	· Iran · Iraq · China · India · Afghanistan · Israel/ Palestine · North Korea · Indonesia · Bangladesh · Turkey · Egypt

Social Studies/U.S. History Summer Assignment

posted Jun 11, 2010 6:21 AM by Sabrina Medina

MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT

UNITED STATES HISTORY

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2009

For this assignment, you are going to research the following Supreme Court cases:

• Marbury v Madison

• Fletcher v Peck

• McCulloch v Maryland

• Gibbons v Ogden

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Civil Rights Cases

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Northern Securities Co. v United States

• Schenck v United States

• Schechter Poultry Corporation v United States

• Korematsu v United States

• Brown v Board of Education

• Mapp v Ohio

• Baker v Carr

• Engle v Vitale

• Miranda v Arizona

• NY Times v. United States

• Roe v Wade

* United States v Nixon

• Gore v Bush

For each case, create a chart on an index card (3x5) that includes the name and year of the case, the Constitutional principle(s) being tested, the decision of the majority of the Court, and the long lasting significance of the case. Also include any key words or terms that apply to the case.

Use the following as an example:

Name of Case- Marbury v Madison

Year - 1803

Constitutional Principles- Separation of Powers

The Decision- Established the Supreme Court’s right of judicial review

- Strengthened the judiciary in relation to other branches of government

- Judiciary Act of 1789 was declared unconstitutional

Key Words- Judicial Review

Have a great summer!! See you on September 8^th!!

Summer Reading Assignments for Seniors

posted Jun 10, 2010 11:27 AM by Sabrina Medina

MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

J. David Jimenez, Principal

Department of English

Denise Winchester, Assistant Principal

2010 Summer Reading Assignments

June 2010

Dear Rising Senior,

Congratulations on your promotion to twelfth grade!  You’ve done it – achieved success for one more year!  

As you know, every summer you are asked to read and write in preparation for the new school year.  
This year, we’ve set things up a little differently.  For starters, everything you have on this sheet will also be posted on our school’s website, 
both on the English department and the library pages, and we’ve given you more choices for reading.

So here goes – read on to find out what your choices are, and what we want you to do this summer.  
Be sure you read all the instructions for completing the assignment thoroughly before you begin.  

Happy reading!

Sincerely,

Ms. Winchester

Assistant Principal

General Instructions

Ø  All students, no matter what grade level, MUST read the two books listed for their grade.  All students must complete one of the review sheets attached to this assignment. An appropriate review sheet must be completed for each book you read, so you may need to make extra copies.   Complete all parts of the review sheet for each book.

Ø  All students should be prepared to write an essay and/or take an exam about the books they have read in September.

Grade 12 Book Requirements

Read BOTH books listed below.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.

Summer Reading Vocabulary Assignment

10^th, 11^th and 12^th Grade

Make a list of 25 challenging words you come across as you read each book. (25 for Book #1 and 25 for book #2). Complete one chart per book.

Word and Page #	Synonym	Antonym	Sentence using the word

Summer Reading Assignments for Sophmores

posted Jun 10, 2010 9:50 AM by Sabrina Medina

MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

J. David Jimenez, Principal

Department of English

Denise Winchester, Assistant Principal

2010 Summer Reading Assignments

June 2010

Dear Rising Sophomore,

Congratulations on your promotion to tenth grade!  You’ve done it – achieved success for one more year!  

As you know, every summer you are asked to read and write in preparation for the new school year.  
This year, we’ve set things up a little differently.  For starters, everything you have on this sheet will also be posted on 
our school’s website, both on the English department and the library pages, and we’ve given you more choices for reading.


So here goes – read on to find out what your choices are, and what we want you to do this summer.  
Be sure you read all the instructions for completing the assignment thoroughly before you begin.  

Happy reading!

Sincerely,

Ms. Winchester

Assistant Principal

General Instructions

Ø  All students, no matter what grade level, MUST read the two books listed for their grade.  
All students must complete one of the review sheets attached to this assignment. 
An appropriate review sheet must be completed for each book you read, so you may need to make extra copies.  
 Complete all parts of the review sheet for each book.

Ø  All students should be prepared to write an essay and/or take an exam about the books they have read in September.

Grade 10 Book Requirements

Read BOTH books listed below.

Manchild in the Promised Land* by Claude Brown

The painfully honest autobiography of a black boyhood in the Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s.

My Forbidden Face:  Growing Up Under the Taliban--A Young Woman’s Story* by Latifa

Similar to Anne Frank’s diary, sixteen-year-old Latifa tells her story of growing up in war torn Afghanistan

Summer Reading Assignments for Juniors

posted Jun 10, 2010 9:43 AM by Sabrina Medina [ updated Jun 10, 2010 11:32 AM ]

MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

J. David Jimenez, Principal

Department of English

Denise Winchester, Assistant Principal

2010 Summer Reading Assignments

June 2010

Dear Rising Junior,

 Congratulations on your promotion to eleventh grade!  You’ve done it – achieved success for one more year!  

As you know, every summer you are asked to read and write in preparation for the new school year. 
This year, we’ve set things up a little differently.  For starters, everything you have on this sheet will also be posted 
on our school’s website, both on the English department and the library pages, and we’ve given you more choices for reading.


So here goes – read on to find out what your choices are, and what we want you to do this summer. 
 Be sure you read all the instructions for completing the assignment thoroughly before you begin. 

 Happy reading!

Sincerely,

 Ms. Winchester

Assistant Principal

General Instructions

Ø  All students, no matter what grade level, MUST read the two books listed for their grade.  
All students must complete one of the review sheets attached to this assignment. 
An appropriate review sheet must be completed for each book you read, so you may need to make extra copies.   
Complete all parts of the review sheet for each book.

Ø  All students should be prepared to write an essay and/or take an exam about the books they have read in September.

Grade 11 Book Requirements

Read BOTH books listed below.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

This is the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a 
junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s.

Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinones

Growing up in Spanish Harlem, Chino knew he needed three things to survive: a solid friend (his pana), 
a decent nickname--not some lame thing his parents had called him, like Tito or Googie--and a reputation 
that he would rather lose a tooth or get his ribs broken than back out of a fight. 
With the help of Sapo, "the meanest and ugliest kid on the block," Chino manages to make it as 
far as college before his life is endangered. He even attracts the attention of Nancy Saldivia, a beautiful 
Pentecostal girl so genuinely devout that she has earned the high school nickname "Blanca."

2010 Summer Reading Assignments

posted May 17, 2010 9:49 AM by Sabrina Medina

MANHATTAN CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

J. David Jimenez, Principal

Department of English

Denise Winchester, Assistant Principal

2010 Summer Reading Assignments

June 2010

Dear Rising Freshman,

Congratulations on your promotion to ninth grade!  You’ve done it – achieved success for one more year!  
As you know, every summer you are asked to read and write in preparation for the new school year.  
This year, we’ve set things up a little differently.  For starters, everything you have on this sheet will also be posted on our school’s website, both on the English department and the library pages.  Next, we’ve given you more choices for reading, and finally, we have established an extra credit option for those of you who enjoy reading and want the challenge.

So here goes – read on to find out what your choices are, and what we want you to do this summer.  

Be sure you read all the instructions for completing the assignment thoroughly before you begin.  Happy reading!

Sincerely,

Ms. Winchester

Assistant Principal

General Instructions

Ø  Read the two books listed.

Ø  All students must complete one of the review sheets attached to this assignment. Complete all parts of the review sheet for each book.

Ø  All students must be prepared to write an essay or have a test on one or both of the books in September.

Books:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor’s dog, and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case* by Chris Crowe

Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955.

* Non-fiction

FICTION REVIEW SHEET

Title of Book:__________________________________________ Author:___________________________

Reviewed by:___________________________________________ Date:_____________________________

Part I – General Review

1. Brief plot summary (one or two sentences)

____________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Brief description of two main characters (one or two sentences for each one)

____________________________________________________________________________________________

3. I do/do not recommend this book because

____________________________________________________________________________________________

NON-FICTION REVIEW SHEET

Title of Book:__________________________________________ Author:___________________________

Reviewed by:___________________________________________ Date:_____________________________

Part I – General Review

4. Brief summary of book (one or two sentences)

____________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Brief explanation of two important ideas (one or two sentences for each one)

____________________________________________________________________________________________

6. My opinion: “I do/do not recommend this book because…”

____________________________________________________________________________________________

2010 German Exchange Program

posted Apr 14, 2010 12:21 PM by Sabrina Medina

Hello Scholars of Manhattan Center! The German Exchange program sponsored by The Children's Aid Society is a great opportunity open to all MCSM student's between the ages of 16-18. Feel free to contact Matthew Hadsay, the Schoo-to-Career Coordinator from The Children's Aid Society in room #131. He can provide you with the application for the 2010 German Exchange Program, as well as answer any and all questions you might have. The deadline for application submission is April 23, 2010.

THANK YOU ANDRE ESPINAL

posted Apr 13, 2010 6:15 AM by Sabrina Medina

The Aspira Club would like to acknowledge and thank Andres Espinal and his family for collecting five thousand metal pull tabs. His thoughtfulness will allow the Ronald McDonald House to purchase 5 wheelchairs for disabled children. Thank you Andres for your commitment to helping others!!

Attention Juniors and Seniors

posted Mar 8, 2010 9:27 AM by Sabrina Medina

The Manhattan District Attorney's office is looking for participants for the 2010 LEGAL BOUND high school summer internship program. Student's that are interested in a law or criminal justice career should see Ms. McLaughlin for more information.

CASW's In-school youth program

posted Mar 8, 2010 9:25 AM by Sabrina Medina

If you live in the Washington Heights/Inwood Area, you may qualify for CASW's in-school youth progam. Students interested in participating should see Ms. McLaughlin for more details.

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SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2009

Name of Case- Marbury v Madison

Year - 1803

Constitutional Principles- Separation of Powers

The Decision- Established the Supreme Court’s right of judicial review

- Strengthened the judiciary in relation to other branches of government

Key Words- Judicial Review

Summer Reading Assignments for Seniors

Summer Reading Assignments for Sophmores

Summer Reading Assignments for Juniors

2010 Summer Reading Assignments

2010 German Exchange Program

THANK YOU ANDRE ESPINAL

Attention Juniors and Seniors

CASW's In-school youth program

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