Ms. Michele Ellenwood - Middle School Social Studies

Hello! My name is Michele Ellenwood and I am the Middle School Social Studies teacher. This is my 20th year with Merryhill School. I started my teaching career in kindergarten, then spent a few years in first grade before moving to middle school. I am the 6th grade homeroom teacher so please email me if you have any questions about what we are learning about. I look forward to teaching your student this year.

Updated Friday 01-10-2025 05:21pm

Classroom Notes

Weekly Objectives

5th Grade

Student can identify the reasons for the plantation economy and workforce through the historical events that took place in Jamestown.

6th Grade

Student can analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.

Student can explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.

Student can explain how global changes in population distribution patterns affect changes in land use in particular places.

Student can explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

7th Grade

Student can compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.

Student can explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.

Student can explain how the relationship between the environmental characteristics of places and production of goods influences the spatial patterns of world trade.

Student can use paper based and electronic mapping and graphing techniques to represent and analyze spatial patterns of different environmental and cultural characteristics.

Student can explain multiple causes and effects of events and developments in the past.

8th Grade

Student will learn the significance of the Market Revolution on American social and economic life.

Student will know the significance of First-wave feminism in the United States.

Student will know the events and attempts to compromise between pro-slave and anti-slave states regarding the Compromises of 1820 and 1850.
Student will analyze the developments and events that led to increased tensions between the North and South regarding
Bleeding Kansas, the Harpers Ferry raid, the Dred Scott Case, the Fugitive Slave Act, and the U.S. presidential election of 1860.