Comp H

           H   Name: _________________  Comp Work           

____2 points My academic goal this week is: (Write in a complete sentence AND 

                                                                                        DIFFERENT than last week)

____3 points Language Skills:  Homophones  

• What are they?  Make a list of 3 different homophones, each with their own definition (which will be 6 or more definitions).  
• Use 2 in complete sentences.  

____3 points Math:  Hundreds  

• Multiplication in the hundreds.  Write and complete these in comp book.  
• Remember to show ALL your work and use the ALGORITHM!

   12   33   29   91   49 490

x 15 x 23    x 22 x 41   x 34 x 40 (zero trick)

____10 points Social Studies: Hawaii

• 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: Herbert Hoover or Harriet Tubman

• Who is she/he?  Why is she/he famous?
• What religion is he and why is that relevant to his job?  (Hoover only)
• 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 “H”.

____5 points Overall Neatness, Spelling & Organization

Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency experience in public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.

Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.

He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China, where he worked for a private corporation as China's leading engineer. 

One week before Hoover celebrated his 40th birthday in London, Germany declared war (WWI) on France, and the American Consul General asked his help in getting stranded tourists back home to the USA. In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. 

After the United States entered the war (which war?), President Wilson appointed Hoover head of the Food Administration. 

In 1928 Hoover became the Republican Presidential candidate. He said then: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." He won the presidency. 

However, within months the stock market crashed, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.  Hoover became blamed for the Great Depression.

Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, one of which he was working on when he died at age 90 in New York City on October 20, 1964.

Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading slaves to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. But she was also a nurse, a Union spy and a women’s suffrage supporter. Tubman is one of the most recognized icons in American history and her legacy has inspired countless people from every race and background.

Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents, Harriet (“Rit”) Green and Benjamin Ross, named her Araminta Ross and called her “Minty.”  Rit worked as a cook in the plantation’s “big house,” and Benjamin was a timber worker. Araminta later changed her first name to Harriet in honor of her mother.

Harriet had eight brothers and sisters, but the realities of slavery eventually forced many of them apart, despite Rit’s attempts to keep the family together. When Harriet was five years old, she was rented out as a nursemaid where she was whipped when the baby cried, leaving her with permanent emotional and physical scars.

Around age seven Harriet was rented out to a planter to set muskrat traps and was later rented out as a field hand. She later said she preferred physical plantation work to indoor domestic chores.

Harriet’s desire for justice became apparent at age 12 when she spotted an overseer about to throw a heavy weight at a fugitive slave. Harriet stepped between the slave and the overseer—the weight struck her head.

In 1840, Harriet’s father was set free and Harriet learned that Rit’s owner’s last will had set Rit and her children, including Harriet, free. But Rit’s new owner refused to recognize the will and kept Rit, Harriet and the rest of her children.

Around 1844, Harriet married John Tubman, a free black man, and changed her last name from Ross to Tubman but the marriage was not good which provoked Harriet to plan an escape.  On September 17, 1849, Harriet, Ben and Henry escaped their Maryland plantation. The brothers, however, changed their minds and went back. With the help of the Underground Railroad, Harriet persevered and traveled 90 miles north to Pennsylvania and freedom.