1. August 26 Warm Up In your notebook, list 10 essential words that you have used in studying social studies.

2. Social Studies Vocabulary The following vocabulary words are essential to understanding social studies. Copy the chart below and fill this in as we discuss the words. You will be quizzed on these next Thursday. Term Definition.

3. CULTURE Definition: -a people ’ s way of life including their tools, food, language, religious beliefs and government.

4. HISTORY Definition: a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events

5. GOVERNMENT Definition: A group of people who have the power to make and enforce laws for a country or area

6. POLITICS Definition: The activities involved in getting and using power in public life, and being able to influence decisions to affect a country or a society

7. ECONOMY Definition: The relationship between production, trade, and the supply of money or wealth

8. SOCIETY an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, pa triotic, or other purposes.

9. GEOGRAPHY Definition: the study of all the physical features of the Earth ’ s surface, including climate, plant, animal and human life.

10. What fits into these categories? In your notebook create a sideways chart like the one below. HistoryGovernmentPoliticsEconomySocietyGeography Now, using the lists of words below, put them under the correct category. CongressAtlantic Ocean 9/11 Candidateeducation elections CapitalismCape Fear River trade World War IIdemocracy Poverty

11. What fits into these categories? HistoryGovernmentPoliticsEconomySocietyGeography 9/11 World War II Congress democracy Candidate elections trade Capitalism Education Poverty Atlantic Ocean Cape Fear River

12. ARTIFACTS an object that has been intentionally made or produced for a certain purpose

13. PRIMARY SOURCES Definition: Sources of information that are created at the time of the event (diary, journal, etc.) are called primary sources.

14. SECONDARY SOURCES An interpretation of one or more primary sources

15. What kind of source is it? Create a chart in your notebook. Below each category, decide the type of source the examples might be. Textbookdocumentary movie Newspaper articleRoman gold coin Receipt from Targetbirth certificate Pictures wikipedia Youtube videoIndian arrowhead Gatorade bottlediary biography ArtifactPrimary SourceSecondary Source

16. What kind of source is it? ArtifactPrimary Source Secondary Source Receipt from Target Roman gold coin Pictures Indian arrowhead Gatorade bottle Newspaper article Youtube video birth certificate Receipt from Target Diary Textbook documentary movie Wikipedia biography

17. MIGRATION Definition: Movement from one place to another

18. URBAN/RURAL Definition: Urban-city Rural-outside the city

19. INDUSTRIAL Pertaining to industry and manufacturing

20. AGRARIAN Pertaining to farming

21. HUMAN RIGHTS Human rights are rights essential to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.

22. CIVIL RIGHTS Definition: rights given people by law and governments (freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, etc. )

23. IMPACT and SIGNIFICANCE Definition: The effect or importance of events or people on others is the impact or significance.

24. MOTIVE Definition: the reason for doing something, or behaving in a particular way