11 th Bellringers Weeks 1-18

1. 11thBellringers Weeks 1-18 Mrs. Payne

2. Monday, Week 1 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • no one is sure when or how the first people arrived in what is now called the United States • They may have arrived as recently as 12000 years ago or as long ago as 70000 years.

3. Tuesday, Week 1 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Native Americans have been in North America thirty times longer then europeans have been on the continent. • Actually colonists did not arrive in North America until the late 1500s

4. Wednesday, Week 1 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • The Plains peoples solutions to such basic human needs as food shelter and clothig revealed that they were resourceful and clever. • They must of been very skilled because their tipis and eart lodges were well constructed.

5. Thursday, Week 1 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Children of the Plains people were so used to the harsh weather that they spent hardly no time indoors even on very cold winter days. • Frontiersman Jacob Fowler described Cheyenne children playing the Arkansas River in 1821 in this way The Weather is no cold, the river Frozen up, the ice a great Thickness, and the Indian children Are able to play freely.

6. Friday, Week 1 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Native Americans, who lived in the west, very much enjoyed such sports as horce racing archery and wrestling. But their favorite sport was lacrosse. • During an average game, 70 to 90 barefoot players used webbed sticks to field wooden or deerskin balls across huge fields.

7. Monday, Week 2 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. 1. As many as 30,000 people lived in the four Corners area one-thousand years ago many resided in Chaco Canyon. 2. The Anasazi were fearful of something therefore they left their villages and moved south and east.

8. Tuesday, Week 2 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • The area around Chaco Canyon has many items of interest the ruins climate wildlife and vegetation. • The final report on the decline of the cliff dwellers reached a startling conclusion The Anasazi faced several serious threats, any one of which could have led to their decline.

9. Wednesday, Week 2 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • The village of Roanoke was the one of the first English colonies to be established on the soilhowever this village did not turn out to be that of a successful one.  • The area which was once a village was stripped of its people houses and other shelters were nowhere in site some small cannons, an opened chest, a tall fence built around the perimeter of the former village site, and a single word inscription carved on a fence post, “Croatoan”was left behind were .

10. Thursday, Week 2 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Puritanism an outgrowth of Calvinism was a religious movement in the 16th and 17th centuries. • The Puritans believed that they were different than other people because the lord had selected them for salvation.

11. Friday, Week 2 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • The Puritans stressed self discipline and introspection as ways to determine if they would go to heaven. • The conviction that they had been selected for salvation was enabling the Puritans to endure real bad hardships in the New World.

12. Monday, Week 3 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • In 1620, a small group of Puritans sailed to American and landed in what is now PlyouthMassachusetts. • By following the advise of the Native Americans. Many Puritans survived the hardships of the New World.

13. Tuesday, Week 3 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Many husbands and wifes died that first harsh winter in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, many children were orphaned. • Everyone had his fears during that bitter time, as a result; many people thought about returning to Europe.

14. Wednesday, Week 3 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • In is book Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford described what the Puritans believed and experienced. • The Puritans wrote the mayflower compact to settle disagreements among members of the colony.

15. Thursday, Week 3 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Because the Puritans supported education, all colonial towns almost had schools. • In 1642 the Massachusetts government ordered every town with at least 50 homes to hire someone to teach reading and writing.

16. Friday, Week 3 • Directions: Copy down the following sentences in your “Bellringer” tab. Then, correct the grammatical errors using the editing symbols on your template. • Boys studies latin, greek, and Hebrew to prepare them for college. • My sister Christine and myself didn’t study a foreign language until we were in middle school.

17. Monday, Week 4 • Puritan children read the New England Primer so they could learn to be polite, God fearing adults. • Wow. Its’ a difficult book to read.

18. Tuesday, Week 4 • Young women in contrast were educated at home their studies were not intended top prepare them for college. • Many girls were taught the following subjects reading, sewing, embroidery, cooking, and singing.

19. Wednesday, Week 4 • Because there was no uniform school system, there was religious diversity in the middle colonies. • Ben Franklin commented on the school system when he wrote “we have changed our forms of leadership but we have yet to effect a revolution in education.”

20. Thursday, Week 4 • In January 1697 the Massachusetts General Court declared a day of fasting for the tragedy of the Salem witch trials; the court later deemed the trials unlawful and the leading justice Samuel Sewall publicly apologized for his role in the process.  • In an effort to explain by scientific means the strange afflictions suffered by those "bewitched" Salem residents in 1692, a study published in Science magazine in 1976 cited the fungus ergot found in rye, wheat and other cereals which toxicologists say can cause symptoms such as delusions, vomiting and muscle spasms.

21. Friday, Week 4 • Belief in the supernatural and specifically in the devil’s practice of giving certain humans witches the power to harm others in return for their loyalty had emerged in Europe as early as the 14th century and was widespread in Colonial New England.  • Amid these simmering tensions the Salem witch trials would be fueled by residents suspicions of and resentment toward their neighbors as well as their fear of outsiders.

22. Monday, Week 5 • Most of the colonists in New England emigrated to the colonies, due to religious strife in England, and disagreement with the protestant Church of England. • In the New England Puritan villages, and settlements all aspects of life revolved around the Church. 

23. Tuesday, Week 5 • One type of evidence consisted of spectral evidence which encompassed the testimony of those whom claimed to see an apparition, or shape of the person, afflicting them.  • While some argued that Satan could afflict anyone others argued that Satan needed the permission of the person who’s shape was assumed. 

24. Wednesday, Week 5 • The combination of superstition religious doctrine and subjective evidence all combined to produce an environment where accusations of witchcraft were easy to make and proving. • Regardless of the cause of individual accusations the Salem witch trials serve as an example of the impact of extremism isolationism and lapses in due process.

25. Thursday, Week 5 • While these events are referred to as the Salem witch trials several counties in Massachusetts were involved including Salem Village Ipswich Salem Town and Andover.  • While these were not the first examples of executions for witchcraft in New England the volume of accusations and convictions generated one of the most infamous examples of mass hysteria in America history.

26. Friday, Week 5 • The presence of poppitsointments or books on palm reading or astrology was also considered evidence of guilt. • Finally physical traits such as a mole or blemish known as a witchs teat on the body also factored into decisions of guilt.

27. Monday, Week 6 • In the declaration of independence, Thomas Jefferson lists the reason’s why Americans felt compelled to separate from England. • The document supports the colonists belief that the power of government should lay with those who are governed.

28. Tuesday, Week 6 • The Declaration of independence was adopted by the Contnental Congress on July 4 1776. • 56 men, including John Q Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, signed the document.

29. Wednesday, Week 6 • There is no doubt but that King George was furious at the colonists action. • The King must have been very upset by the part that begin, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts.”

30. Thursday, Week 6 • Imagine what the King said when he received the Declaration of Independence. • IN the document, they make many treasonous charges.

31. Friday, Week 6 • “And for the support of this declaration” Jefferson concluded “We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” • After reading the Declaration of Independence, us sutdents were very moved by the colonists bravery.

32. Monday, Week 7 • There were major advances in science in the 18th century, these resulted in great social change. • Of all the great inventions of that time, many people considered the telescope to be the more important one.

33. Tuesday, Week 7 • According to astronomer William Herschel one way to determine the shape of the galaxy was to count the stars in different directions. • Although Herschel was wrong about the shape of the milky way, him and Isaac Newton had discovered the basic laws of physics.

34. Wednesday , Week 7 • Carolus Linnaeus introduced the binary notation system for naming species. This notation system is still in use today. • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck created a theory regarding invertebrates that sounded well at the time but his theory was later proven wrong.

35. Thursday , Week 7 • Francous-Xavier bichat founded histology the study of living things around 1800. • Bichats and Jenners work helped doctors fight disease on a large scale.

36. Friday , Week 7 • Discussions took place between many great scientists, and some of the tales was productive. • During the eighteenth century, inventions began to appear that used technology in the modern sense of the word the direct application of science to machines.

37. Monday, Week 8 • In his short story The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving reworks a german folk tale about a man who sells his soul to the devil. • Tom makes a deal with the devil so he can become rich.

38. Tuesday , Week 8 • This is the most unique story about the devil because this one is funnier than any story like it. • Tom's wife tries to sell her soul to the devil for a few dollars worth of teapots and spoons.

39. Wednesday , Week 8 • The devil fought with Mrs. Walker, and took all the goods she had brought to trade. • It was a really awful fight, which ended with handsful of the devil's hair scattered all around.

40. Thursday , Week 8 • Tom agreed to turn usurer based on the conduitions set forth by the devil. Soon, may people losing money to Tom. • In fact, without any urging from the devil, Tom hisself stoled money from many of his neighbors.

41. Friday , Week 8 • Tom Walker he caused his own downfall in the end. • "The Devil take me, Tom said, If I have made a farthing!"

42. Monday, Week 9 • In his poem The Raven Edgar Allan Poe describes how a raven frighten the speaker. • Would you want a eerie bird like this to harass you

43. Tuesday, Week 9 • I hope the raven will not drive the speaker crazy with: it’s spooky gaze. • My sister Jilian claims that the speaker will lose his mind in the end.

44. Wednesday, Week 9 • Because the raven is able to make the speaker really nervous, the night is dark and gloomy. • In the Raven, they provide a vivid description of terror.

45. Thursday, Week 9 • When the bird refuses to talk he man in the poem lost his temper. • The Raven describe the mans growing hysteria.

46. Friday, Week 9 • This here poem was so powerful. The bird’s appearance and silence were unnerving. • To recover from our fear we nearly spent half an hour talking about the poem.

47. Monday, Week 10 • Critics agree that Walt Whitman was one of the most talented poets ever there is no doubt but that he helped create modern American poetry. • Whitman could of written traditional poetry, but he was determined to express his ideas without using rhyme and meter.

48. Tuesday, Week 10 • Whitman spent hours daydreaming and wandering around the Museums of New York. He did this on a regular basis. • In some peoples minds, Whitman wasted his time; however his poetry showed that he learned a great deal from these experiences.

49. Wednesday, Week 10 • Some poems, like Whitman’s Song of Myself, have less rhymes than others • Dennis enjoys reading Whitman’s poetry because you can really see how much the poet loves America.

50. Thursday, Week 10 • Walt Whitman’s house is located on Route 110 and west Hills road Huntington New York. • “I ain’t been to Whitman’s house Mari said but I’m planning to go soon.