Welcome to 8th Grade American Studies
My Family - October 2009
My name is Mrs. Freed and this website is for my students at Holt Junior High. Look around and get acquainted with the site and all it has to offer. You will be able to find many helpful things for my class. Be sure and check back often as I update frequently.
A little about me ~ this is my 11th year teaching and my third year in Holt. I was the technology teacher at Hope, Wilcox, Midway, and Dimondale before coming here as well as working at a school in Lansing. My husband and I have been married for 21 years and have three children, two grown and in college and our youngest is a sophomore in high school at Grand Ledge. I graduated from Spring Arbor University with a BA and a social studies endorsement and I also have my Master's of Arts in Education. I have spent several summers abroad doing mission work and teaching in England, Isreal, and Kenya (twice - the last time was just this past summer of 2010).
The pictures below are links to their sites.
A little about me ~ this is my 11th year teaching and my third year in Holt. I was the technology teacher at Hope, Wilcox, Midway, and Dimondale before coming here as well as working at a school in Lansing. My husband and I have been married for 21 years and have three children, two grown and in college and our youngest is a sophomore in high school at Grand Ledge. I graduated from Spring Arbor University with a BA and a social studies endorsement and I also have my Master's of Arts in Education. I have spent several summers abroad doing mission work and teaching in England, Isreal, and Kenya (twice - the last time was just this past summer of 2010).
The pictures below are links to their sites.
Textbook - Call to Freedom - Click picture to go to online text. Then you need to put in password8 for username and t9j8j for the password.
Iron Thunder
Reading this in class in March/April
My Brother Sam Is Dead
We have finished this book for the year.
Books about American history - Check Them Out!!
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation
When the good ship Sparrowhawk is wrecked near Plymouth in 1626, a 13-year-old indentured orphan passenger is lodged with Elder William Brewster's family until his journey to Jamestown can continue. This is Christopher Sears's account of his stay there, written in journal form in comfortably large print and liberally illustrated with handsome colored woodcuts. His entries offer brief yet penetrating glimpses of Pilgrim life and his own hopes and fears, and his conversational narrative provides easily absorbed information on early American food, housing, religion, clothing, family life, and the local Indians.