Sophs- Antebellum America- Slavery

Read the article, The Pre-Civil War South: The South's Economy, and answer the following questions...

1. What negative impact did slavery have on the South's economy?

2. How did the South's urban centers compare to those of the North?

3. Why were southern cities smaller?

4. Why was transportation primitive in the South?

5. How did slave ownership change in the decade before the Civil War?

Ch. 5 Test Review

Child Psychology- 646

Ch. 5 Study Guide

Part I: Objective

Part II: Defining key terms

Part III: Short Answers

All notes

Read Ch. 5

Ch. 5 Objective questions

Topics:

- neonatal period

- Anoxia; meconium

- Braxton-Hicks; labor contractions

- Ferdinand Lamaze; Dick-Read

- Low birth weight; Average birth weight; Small for date

- Presentation (positions of the baby)

- Lanugo; vernix caseosa; fontanels

- Postmature; prematurity

- stages of birth

- Apgar scale

- Electronic fetal monitoring; Assisted delivery techniques

- Natural childbirth; Mediated delivery; Cesarean section

- Postpartum illness

- Kauai longitudinal study

- Imprinting; mother-infant bond State of arousal

- Doula; Midwife

- What starts labor

- Impact on family

- kangaroo care

- electronic fetal monitoring

- 3 degrees of postpartum illness

- first weeks at home with a newborn


Chapter 5 review

Click here to do the online multiple choice, true/false and fill in the blank practice tests.

Report your score to me when you finish each test.

Seniors- Parenting Magazine

Pretend you are a writer for Parenting magazine. Readers of the magazine write in questions to you regarding any parenting issues. Below are several letters to Parenting that you need to review. Only respond to the letter of your choice. Be both creative and informative in your response. Sign your own pen name that relates to the issue discussed.

Options:

1. Dear Parenting,
Help! I'm a 30 year-old woman, and I am expecting my first baby to be born in a few months. I consider myself uneducated about the different methods of childbirth. Could you please inform me of the pros and cons of natural, medicated, and cesarean births. I want what is best for my baby and myself.

Sincerely,
Which way to go?


2. Dear Parenting,
My baby, Emma, was born 4 weeks before her due date. She has already been in the NICU for one week. I am scared and I feel helpless. Besides the NICU, is there anything else I can do to help stimulate growth? I want to get her home healthy and as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Looking for baby miracle grow


3. Dear Parenting,
No one ever told me how hectic my life would be after Ethan was born! He is my first baby, and needless to say, my husband and I were unprepared for a newborn. What can you tell me about the patterns of newborns? What should I expect to change in my life? What advice can you give me about caring for Ethan?

Sincerely,
What did I get myself into?

Sophs- Antebellum America- Westward Expansion

So far in our Antebellum America unit we have covered 1 of the 3 main themes, which is westward expansion. On this blog, you will examine several more topics that involve westward expansion up to 1860. Use the links that are underlined in the questions below to answer the following. Answer each question in complete sentences in a well developed paragraph. Be sure to paraphrase in your own words.

Each answer should be at least 5 sentences in length.
Value- 9 points
Due- Wednesday, November 3

1. John O'Sullivan coined the term, "Manifest Destiny." What does this phrase mean. Read the entire article to understand its importance. How does Manifest Destiny link to westward expansion?

2. President Andrew Jackson issued the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Explain the details of this act. What happened to the Cherokee nation? How does the Indian Removal Act fit with westward expansion?

3. Explain the impact of the California Gold Rush in 1849. How does it link to westward expansion?