Upcoming Unit, Activities and Assessment.
Unit Plan.
Unit Plan.
Unit 1: Early Encounter and Colonial Development
Grade 7
MONTH OF SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER 2017.
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.
10. I can examine the reasons why the colonies were founded.
12. I can examine the origins of early government in the colonies.
13. I can examine why English colonists traveled to New England to gain religious freedom.
14. I can examine the reasons why the English colonies continued to grow despite many challenges.
15. I can compare the development of the Middle, Southern and New England colonies.
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.
Native Americans
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.
The Southern Colonies
- Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America’s.
- Daily life in Virginia was challenging to the colonies.
- Religious freedom and economic opportunities were motives for founding other southern colonies, including Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia.
- Farming and slavery were important to the economies of the southern colonies.
- The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to avoid religious and government were closely linked in the New England colonies.
- Religion and government were closely linked in the New England colonies.
- The New England economy was based on trade and farming
- Education was important in the New England colonies.
The Middle Colonies
- The English created New York and New Jersey from former Dutch territory.
- William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania.
- The economy of the middle colonies was supported by trade and staple crops.
- Colonial government were influence by political changes in England.
- England trade laws limited free trade in the colonies .
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
ACTIVITIES
- Using primary and secondary sources.
- Annotating texts
- Classroom discussions
- Analyzing documents
- Projects
Assignment and Due Dates
701 , 702, and 709
Writing Assignment Number 1
Due October 6, 2017
Christopher Columbus - Hero or Villain?
Should Columbus Day be Abolished as a National Holiday.
707 and 708
Writing Assignment Number 1
Due October 6, 2017.
Famous Explorer
Choose an explorer and write a report using the guided questions about him.
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 24, 2017.
A study guide will be posted for test.
There will be quizzes given when a section of the unit is completed.
Writing Assignment Number 1
Due by October 30, 2017.
Brochure or report inviting people to live in any of the there regions where the 13 colonies started. Or letter about which colony you live in.
Unit 2: The American Revolution.
7th grade
Unit 2: The American Revolution
Duration of Unit: November 6, 2017 to December 22, 2017
Dear Parents,
I am very excited to inform you of the new unit we are about to start in Social
Studies. The theme of the unit is ,The American Revolutionary War. By the end of this unit, it is my hope that your child will have gained knowledge on aspects of the American Revolutionary War and what it meant and means for our country.
Throughout this unit, your child will be engaged in different aspects of the war that
will help them understand the purpose and meaning of the war. For example, there
will be role plays, new paper article writing to discuss event . Students will all will a poem on why the colonist wanted to revolt. Students will also a argumentative essay on Patriot vs Loyalist in the American Revolution. The planning page and first draft will be done in class. Students will be responsible for completing the final draft on their own.
I hope that you share the same excitement I have for this unit as I do. It is
important for students to understand the importance of this war because it set the
tone for the country that we live in. The same document of Independence is still
adhered to by all citizens. Also, the government that was set up by our founding
fathers is still enacted and leading our country. With this information, the students
will have a foundation of the government that will be taught in a future unit during
the year. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact
me through phone or e-mail. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you may have
about this unit.
Telephone number 718 904 5600. E-mail address is K [email protected].
Sincerely,
Ms K. Edwards