***A chapter test will be given at the end of the chapter. Students will receive a study guide 2 - 3 days prior to the test. Students will work on these during class and complete for homework. Students must return the studu guides for us to correct answers the day after they were given out. Students receive 100 points for answering the study guide. The test will be the day after we correct the study guides.
First Semester Objectives: First Nine Weeks:
Chapter One: The First Alabamians (pages 2 - 35)
*The Bering Strait--Land Bridge
*archaeologists
*geologists
*erosion
*Land Regions of Alabama: The Highland Rim and The Cumberland Plateau, The Ridge and Valley Province, The Piedmont Province, and The Coastal Plain
*Tourism---Alabama's Golf Trail--The Rosa Parks Museum---Alabama's Constitution Village---The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame--Talladega Motor Sports Speedway
*Industry---manufacturing---cast iron pipe---coal mining--automobile plants
*Business Leaders
*9-11---hijacked---terrorism
*War in Iraq
*Sports Personalities---Hank Aaron---Charles Barkley---Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant---NASCAR's Allison Brothers and Neil Bonnet
*Alabama Architecture---Architectural Styles
*Alabama Writers and Artists---Nelle Harper Lee---Kathryn Tucker Wyndham---Fannie Flagg---Winston Groom---Daniel Wallace----Barbara Parks
*Actors and Actresses---Jim Nabors---Nat King Cole---Alabama---
*Alabama Folk Culture---pottery, quilting
*Alabama: "One Big Front Porch"
+++Answer the questions at the end of each lesson and pages 396 - 397 SAT practice.