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The Pequea Valley eighth grade history class, led by Mr. Nathaniel Beck, teaches early American history by exploring the everyday life experiences of people from 1607-1865. Included in the curriculum is in-depth studies of furniture, fashion, music and other aspects of everyday life to which today's students can relate. For over 50 years, when the class is finished studying the colonial period, students have the opportunity to visit Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. After they complete the federal period many of the students travel to Massachusettes to visit Old Sturbridge Village. This website has been constructed to aid with the quarterly projects the American Life students are required to complete throughout the year. Below you will find brief descriptions of each project and related links. Project papers are in printable pdf format. This information has been gathered and placed on this website for Pequea Valley American Life students.
First Quarter | Second Quarter | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter VETERANS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Frist Quarter Project Papers
(pdf file) Using the information you gather during an interview of a twenty-first century veteran, you will write a brief biographical sketch of that person. Selected articles will be compiled in a magazine. Each article is to be five paragraphs in length (1 1/2 to 2 typewritten pages). The topic of each paragraph you will write is defined for you. Use the following as a guideline for details you might include in your completed article. Project Objectives:
Print the complete first quarter Project Papers (pdf file)
Second Quarter Project Papers
(pdf file) Project Description: You will research the life of an American who lived between 1607 and 1865. This person may be well or little known to our American history. Your task is to investigate thoroughly the impact of this figure on his or her society and to note his or her relevance on our American history. Project Objectives:
Print the complete second quarter Project Papers (pdf file) A Few Historical Figures to Research
Character Presentations
The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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