Comp G

G   Name: _________________  Comp Work           

____2 points My academic goal this week is: (Write in complete sentence.)

____3 points Language Skills:  Genre

• What is genre?
• Write answer in a complete sentence into comp journal.
• You may want to look in our Reading Street book.
• Name 3 genres and their definitions.

____3 points Math:  Geometry 

• Geometry is the study of ________?   Write this in your composition book. 
• What is a polygon?  Write definition and draw one.
• What is a quadrilateral?
• What is a pentagon?
• What is a hexagon?
• What is an octagon?

____10 points Social Studies:  Georgia

• Write 3 facts about this state.
• Draw and color their state flag into your composition book.  
• What # state is it?  
• What year did it become a state?
• Complete state worksheet.

____5 points Famous Person: Ulysses S. Grant or Gloria Steinem or Ghandi

• Who is he or she?  Why is he or she famous?
• Research and find 3 facts about him that are NOT your answer from above.
• Write them in your journal in complete sentences. 

____2 points Art Border: 

• Design a border around your two pages of answers.  The border must be in color and have something to do with the letter “G”.

____5 points Overall Neatness, Spelling & Organization

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–77).  As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Ulysses was, as the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War, and a logical candidate for President in 1868.

Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio leather tanner. He went to West Point against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under Gen. Zachary Taylor.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. He was appointed by the Governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers.

Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Finally, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials.

After retiring from the Presidency, Grant became a partner in a financial firm, which went bankrupt. About that time he learned that he had cancer of the throat. He started writing his recollections to pay off his debts and provide for his family, racing against death to produce a memoir that ultimately earned nearly $450,000. Soon after completing the last page, in 1885, he died.

 

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem was born in Toledo, Ohio on March 25th, 1934. Her father, an antiques dealer, moved the family all over the United States for business. Gloria’s mother, who worked as both a teacher and a journalist throughout her lifetime, suffered a nervous breakdown and after divorcing her husband, Gloria’s father, the family moved to Washington, DC. Gloria received her schooling there while taking care of her mother, and she later attended Smith College, where she studied politics and government.

Gloria Steinem The Journalist

Gloria began her career as a journalist in New York, where she worked hard to hold her own in a field dominated by men. She received notoriety early.

Ms. Magazine And Women’s Right Activist

During the late 60s, Gloria wrote a political column and acted as a contributing editor for New York Magazine. She launched her own magazine, Ms., in 1972, and the magazine’s championing of women’s rights made it a bestseller. The magazine covered a wide range of topics, including sexual harassment and gender bias in the workplace and politics. Gloria published numerous essays and several books. She was also active in political campaigns, speaking out on women’s issues. She co- founded numerous political organizations for women, including Choice USA and the Women’s Action Alliance. She married when she was 66 years old, but she was widowed a few years later. Today, she continues her work to achieve equal rights for women across all domains.

 

Mahatma Gandhi

Revered the world over for his non-violent philosophy of passive resistance, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was known to his many followers as Mahatma, or “the great-souled one.” He began his activism as an Indian immigrant in South Africa in the early 1900s, and in the years following World War I became the leading figure in India’s struggle to gain independence from Great Britain. Known for his ascetic lifestyle–he often dressed only in a loincloth and shawl–and devout Hindu faith, Gandhi was imprisoned several times during his pursuit of non-cooperation, and undertook a number of hunger strikes to protest the oppression of India’s poorest classes, among other injustices. After Partition in 1947, he continued to work toward peace between Hindus and Muslims. Gandhi was shot to death in Delhi in January 1948 by a Hindu fundamentalist.

Early Life

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His father was the dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar; his deeply religious mother was a devoted practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu), influenced by Jainism, an ascetic religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence. At the age of 19, Mohandas left home to study law in London at the Inner Temple, one of the city’s four law colleges. Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. He soon accepted a position with an Indian firm that sent him to its office in South Africa. Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years.