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Chapter 1- Prehistory to Colonization
oChapter 1 Vocabulary words
Section 1
Nomad, Hunter-Gatherer, Agricultural Revolution, Bering Straight, Clovis Point, Kennewick Man, Archaeology, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Mesoamerica, kiva, pueblo, Maya, Aztec, Cahokia, Iroquois Confederacy, Moundbuilders
Section 2
Astrolabe, circumnavigate, caravel, conquistador, encomienda, Henry the Navigator, sugar cane, Columbus, Treaty of Tordesillias, Amerigo Vespucci, Ponce de Leon, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizzaro, Bartoleme de las Casas, Mestizos, peninsulares, creoles, St. Augustine, Fort Mose, Samuel de Champlain
Section 3
Joint-stock company, privateer, headright, proprietary colony, heretic, Roanoke, Jamestown, Powhatan Confederacy, Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Henry Hudson, Reformation, Puritan, Anglican, Catholic, King Phillip's War, Charles I, English Civil War, Charles II, Lord's Proprietors and the Carolinas, James II, Quakers, William Penn, James Oglethorp and Georgia.
Section 4
Indentured servants, town meeting, triangular trade, mercantilism, Nathaniel Bacon, English Bill of Rights, Navigation Acts
Section 5
Slave Code, Stono Rebellion, rationalism, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, pietism, revival, Cotton Mather, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitehead
Section 1
Nomad, Hunter-Gatherer, Agricultural Revolution, Bering Straight, Clovis Point, Kennewick Man, Archaeology, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Mesoamerica, kiva, pueblo, Maya, Aztec, Cahokia, Iroquois Confederacy, Moundbuilders
Section 2
Astrolabe, circumnavigate, caravel, conquistador, encomienda, Henry the Navigator, sugar cane, Columbus, Treaty of Tordesillias, Amerigo Vespucci, Ponce de Leon, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizzaro, Bartoleme de las Casas, Mestizos, peninsulares, creoles, St. Augustine, Fort Mose, Samuel de Champlain
Section 3
Joint-stock company, privateer, headright, proprietary colony, heretic, Roanoke, Jamestown, Powhatan Confederacy, Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Henry Hudson, Reformation, Puritan, Anglican, Catholic, King Phillip's War, Charles I, English Civil War, Charles II, Lord's Proprietors and the Carolinas, James II, Quakers, William Penn, James Oglethorp and Georgia.
Section 4
Indentured servants, town meeting, triangular trade, mercantilism, Nathaniel Bacon, English Bill of Rights, Navigation Acts
Section 5
Slave Code, Stono Rebellion, rationalism, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, pietism, revival, Cotton Mather, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitehead
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September 11- finish Secrets of the Dead excerpt if necessary and then do these study questions using the chapter loaded above.
Use pages 16-23 in the chapter to answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper. Due on Friday.
Use pages 16-23 in the chapter to answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper. Due on Friday.
- How did the astrolabe and the caravel help the Portuguese sail the globe?
- What are some of the things that Henry the Navigator did to make Portugal such a powerful nation in sea exploration?
- Where did Spain and Portugal start sugar cane crop production?
- Who did they use to grow the sugar cane?
- What was the Treaty of Tordesillas? Who created it?
- Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
- What did Vasco de Balboa do?
- What did Ferdinand Magellan do? What happened to his crew in the Philippines?
- How did Hernan Cortés conquer all of Mexico?
- What were conquistadors supposed to do? Who were some of them?
- Who ended up colonizing the Southwest for Spain?
- Not all Spaniards were happy about the efforts of conquistadors. What did Bartolome de las Casas say about what the Spanish were doing in the New World?
- What is an encomienda?
- How did the peninsulares and criolos take advantage of the Native Americans and Africans in the Americas?
- Where did King Henry IV of France send his explorers? What did Samuel de Champlain do for France?
13 Colonies Map online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3044
September 17
Chapter 1, section 3- English Colonization part 1
Chapter 1, section 3- English Colonization part 1
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September 19
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September 23rd
Go over Slavery and the Making of America and start a vocabulary chart for 1.3, due Wednesday. |
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September 27- Nearpod.com about early New England, the Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials
Go to Nearpod.com and the code to get to the lesson is ILFSJ
Go to Nearpod.com and the code to get to the lesson is ILFSJ
October 2- Ch1, section 4 PPT and notes- fill in the blanks on the notes for the matching powerpoints.
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We will have a test on Ch 1 on October 8
October 4th-
You have a test on Tuesday. You need to know all of these terms and their definitions in your own words. You also need to know where the 13 original colonies are on the map. You may use one index card for open notes during the test. It must be YOUR OWN WORDS.
You have a test on Tuesday. You need to know all of these terms and their definitions in your own words. You also need to know where the 13 original colonies are on the map. You may use one index card for open notes during the test. It must be YOUR OWN WORDS.
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October 14-
I will give your tests to you on Thursday. Today we are starting Ch 2! |
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Watch the video the War that Made America and answer these questions-
1. Which two countries are fighting over the Ohio River Valley? 2. Who was sent as a representative of the British to the Forks of Ohio in 1754? -how old was he? -how many battles had he been in before this? -who was his Native American ally at the battle? -what did Half-King do after the battle? -what kind of trouble did this cause? 3. What are you supposed to do when you parley? -who do the Native Americans normally side with? -who does the Half-King side with? 4. Is George able to convince the French to leave their forts on the Forks? 5. What is Fort Necessity? -what happens there? 6. What happens at Fort Monongahela? |
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October 17
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October 21st
American Prerevolutionary acts timeline-using chapter 2 section two of the online book and the internet I want you to make a timeline of these events and give me a short explanation of what happened and if you think it fits in the Economic, Military or Rights area of causes of the Revolution.
Unscramble these, put them in the right order, explain each event and tell me if it is Economic, Military or Rights or some other kind of cause of the Revolution.
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Quebec Act, Declaration of Independence, First Continental Congress, Gaspee Affair, Lexington and Concord, Coercive Acts, Boston Tea Party, Second Continental Congress, Common Sense Published, Battle of Bunker Hill, George Washington named leader of Continental Army., Olive Branch Petition,
American Prerevolutionary acts timeline-using chapter 2 section two of the online book and the internet I want you to make a timeline of these events and give me a short explanation of what happened and if you think it fits in the Economic, Military or Rights area of causes of the Revolution.
Unscramble these, put them in the right order, explain each event and tell me if it is Economic, Military or Rights or some other kind of cause of the Revolution.
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Quebec Act, Declaration of Independence, First Continental Congress, Gaspee Affair, Lexington and Concord, Coercive Acts, Boston Tea Party, Second Continental Congress, Common Sense Published, Battle of Bunker Hill, George Washington named leader of Continental Army., Olive Branch Petition,
October 24-
1. Go over our timelines from Monday together
2. Explore the Founding Fathers
-there are Seven key men who are instrumental in starting the movement from 13 disjointed colonies to a unified, independent USA. These men are George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. However, there are two more people I’d like you to consider researching, Dr Benjamin Rush and Abigail Adams.
In a group of two or three you are going to make a poster about one of these men that tells us
-where and when they were born and grew up
-what their childhood was like
-what and where their education was like
-what was their life like (job, marriage, kids, travels, challenges)
-what did they do to help start the Revolution, what they did during the Revolution
-were they pro-slavery or anti-slavery
-a quote from them about the Revolution or Liberty.
-a picture
1. Go over our timelines from Monday together
2. Explore the Founding Fathers
-there are Seven key men who are instrumental in starting the movement from 13 disjointed colonies to a unified, independent USA. These men are George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. However, there are two more people I’d like you to consider researching, Dr Benjamin Rush and Abigail Adams.
In a group of two or three you are going to make a poster about one of these men that tells us
-where and when they were born and grew up
-what their childhood was like
-what and where their education was like
-what was their life like (job, marriage, kids, travels, challenges)
-what did they do to help start the Revolution, what they did during the Revolution
-were they pro-slavery or anti-slavery
-a quote from them about the Revolution or Liberty.
-a picture
October 29- American Revolution powerpoint
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October 31- Hamilton!
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November 1 &4
Hamilton workdays-presentations start on Wednesday the 6th. Everyone has to present!
Hamilton workdays-presentations start on Wednesday the 6th. Everyone has to present!
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November 13- America After the Revolution- powerpoint and notes.
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November 15th- The Constitution
constitutioncenter.org/media/files/constitution.pdf Using the Constitution pdf above, fill out this worksheet with a partner. Put both of your names on the worksheet. |
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November 19
Go through this powerpoint, fill out these notes, and then finish with this film. |
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December 2
Foreign Interference in Early America
Foreign Interference in Early America
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December 6 Jefferson in the White House 1. read the section on Jefferson and answer the end of section questions. 2. read this www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/jefferson-s-attitudes-toward-slavery/ 3. Watch the short video on Jefferson and Sally Hemmings and discuss. |
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December 10
The War of 1812 and Tecumseh's Wars. Watch We Shall Remain part two and answer questions. After the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 when the US took possession of the Midwest the Native Americans were in a dangerous position. The Whites were encroaching on their land and they were having to deal with more and more White settlers, aka Long Knives. The tribe that tries to stop the movement into the Ohio Valley is the Shawnee, lead by Tecumseh, and the movie is about him.
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December 12
Finish Tecumseh and start The Presidents notebook project |
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December 16
James Madison and the War of 1812 With a partner, read through this section of the book (6.4) and answer 1-5 at the end. Then let's read through this annotation of The Star Spangled Banner which was written about the War of 1812. www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/07/us/national-anthem-annotated/ |
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January 6
Dolley Madison- our first First Lady.
Dolley Madison- our first First Lady.
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January 8- on one side of the map label each state and the year it joined the union. On the other outline slave states and free states in different colors. If the state started as a slave state but became free, put the year they emancipated African Americans in the state,
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January 10- Making notebooks in class
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January 16- I have a migraine and I am really sorry to miss you today!
Watch The African Americans; Many Rivers to Cross, episode 2,The Age of Slavery On Amazon Prime and take notes on the important people they talk about.At the end think for a minute and then tell me what you think about the information from this episode. | ||||
Every student will be required to research at least two people, events or places in African American History from our state and prepare a short summary about the examples they have chosen and create a neat written card with information about the example from North Carolina History they have researched.
The cards will be displayed on our class bulletin board and will need to be spelled properly and neatly written. The cards are due on January 23. Here are a few links to get you started.
Everyone has to do different people places and things.
The cards will be displayed on our class bulletin board and will need to be spelled properly and neatly written. The cards are due on January 23. Here are a few links to get you started.
Everyone has to do different people places and things.
docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/roundup.html, www.ncpedia.org/exploring-north-carolina-african, https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/black-history-month,
www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/african-american-civil-rights, www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/school-desegregation, northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/civil-rights-movement/, www.ncarts.org/african-american-musicians-north-carolina-made-groundbreaking-contributions-american-music, www.africanamericanmusicnc.com/about-the-music/meet-musicians/, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_racism_in_North_Carolina, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_history_of_North_Carolina, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_people_in_North_Carolina_politics,
www.ncpedia.org/education/hbcu
www.ncpedia.org/education/hbcu
January 23
Finish cards, post them on bulletin board.
Finish cards, post them on bulletin board.
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The Supreme Court in the 19th century We are going to add to our binders with some work on the really important cases heard by the Supreme Court in the 1800s. |
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Quarter 3
January 30- Living in the Industrial Revolution
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February 3
Nationalism and boundaries- go through these powerpoints and fill out the note sheets.
Nationalism and boundaries- go through these powerpoints and fill out the note sheets.
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February 4
African American Heroes Powerpoint and jigsaw activity |
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February 13
Finish Harriet and discuss and complete film review chart. |
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February 21
American People of the 19th century
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March 11 - Unit 3 test testmoz.com/q/2534863
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John Brown www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWS_Jrjh11s
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