ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What was the impact of European exploration on America’s land and people? How did early exploration and settlement cause competition between nations? What role did religion play in early exploration? How did the Columbian Exchange impact the old world and the new world?
STANDARDS CCR Anchor Standards for Writing No. 4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. ELA 7W. 1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Language Standard 6 Acquire and use accurately grade- appropriate general academic and domain- specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Topics 1. Identifying primary and secondary sources. 2. Analyzing the development of early societies in North America before Europeans explored the continent. 3. Examine the reasons for European exploration. 4. Examine the society in Europe before the transatlantic travel. 5. Analyze the reasons that helped the Spanish to defeat the Aztec and Inca. 6. Examine the treatment of the Native Americans and decide if the encomienda system was fair or not. 7. Examine the impact Christopher Columbus voyage had on the Native Americans. 8. Analyze how different European groups tried to find a North West Passage. 9. The negative and positive effects of the Columbian exchange.
CONTENT Big Idea In the Last Ice Age a glacier formed a land Bridge named Beringia over the Bering strait between Russia and Alaska. This enabled Asian peoples to travel into the Americas in search of food, and they continued to travel south and settle here after the Ice Age. Earliest Native
Americans - Beringia Land Bridge - Last Ice Age -Migration of herds and nomads The Mesoamerican civilizations developed contemporary to, yet isolated from other civilizations in the world as well as rival their splendor and success.
Mesoamerican civilizations - The Olmec & Maya - The Aztec - The Inca The Mesoamerican civilizations developed contemporary to, yet isolated from other civilizations in the world as well as rival their splendor and success.
Spain Builds an Empire -Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztec and Inca empires. - Spanish settlers treated Native Americans harshly, forcing them to work on plantations and in mines.
The Race for Empires. - Events in Europe affected settlement in North America. - Several explorers searched for a northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean.
Beginnings of Slavery - European diseases wiped out much of the Native American population causing colonists to look for a new labour force.
SKILLS Make inferences while reading Support evidence using textual evidence Identify point of view of different historical figures in a text. Making connections and using the text to support connections:
1. Text to text 2. Text to world3. Cause & Effect
Reading Strategies: Informational Chart Context Clues Identifying Main Idea Visualization Activating Prior Knowledge
ACTIVITES - Using primary and secondary sources. - Annotating texts - Classroom discussions - Analyzing documents - Projects
Assignment
Writing Assignment Number 1 Due October 6, 2015 Who had the right to claim the Americas: The Native Americans, or the European Explorers?
TEXTBOOK Text book assignments due the next day after being assigned. Text book assignments include reading activities and and questions.
PERFORMANCE TASK, TESTS and Quizzes A unit test will be given at the end of Unit. First Unit Test will be the week of October 9, 2015. A study guide will be posted for test.
Two Quizzes will be given when a section of the unit is completed.