Week of 9/30

This week we will be working on another research project in the library with the ELA department. Our objective is to further develop research skills by adding to what we already learned from the last project.

Students will be conducting background research and choosing their person to research. Our focus will then be to formulate a working thesis and from that thesis, three meaningful, related research questions.

9/30 - Research project

10/1 - Research project

10/2 - Research project

10/3 - Research project

10/4 - Research project

Week of 9/23/2019

9/23 - Chapter 2 Review

9/24 - Chapter 2 Test

Introduce ‘Aboard A Slave ship’ for Paideia Seminar

9/25 – Early Out – Fall Fun Day

9/26 - Paideia Seminar ‘Aboard A Slave Ship’

9/27 - Chapter 3, Section 1 Early Colonies have Mixed Success p85-89

Objectives

1. To describe early English attempts at colonizing

2. To explain English financing of a colony

3. To summarize how Jamestown was founded and grew

4. To analyze the conflicts of the Jamestown colonists both

with Native Americans and among the colonists themselves

Week of 9/16/2019

9/16 - Basics of Research – Collaboration with ELA

9/17 - Basics of Research – Collaboration with ELA

9/18 - Basics of Research – Collaboration with ELA

9/19 - Chapter 2, Section 4 p. 76-79

Objectives

1. To analyze the origins of slavery in the Americas

2. To explain the development of the slave trade

3. To describe the middle passage

4. To pose and answer questions about the system of slavery

in the Americas

Read section, notes, section assessment

9/20 - Finish Chapter 2

Week of 9/9/2019

9/9 - Geography Review

9/10 - Geography Quiz/Test

Overview of Chapter 1 – Analyze Iroquois League

9/11 - Chapter 2, ‘Setting the Stage’ p. 59-60

Section 1, Spain Claims an Empire p. 61-66.

Objectives

1. To explain the competition between Spain and Portugal to claim foreign lands

2. To describe Spain’s conquest of Mexico and the Incan empire

3. To explain the reasons for Spanish victories

4. To identify important Spanish explorers

Section assessment

9/12 - Analysis ‘Reasons for Spanish Victories’ p. 65-66 research the effects that European germs, guns and diplomacy had in their dealings with the Indians.

Chapter 2, Section 2, Europe competes for North America p. 67 – 70

Objectives

1. To trace the search for a water route through North America to Asia

2. To explain Spanish reaction to competition in North America and to identify effects of the defeat of the Spanish Armada

3. To describe the search for trade by the French and Dutch

Section Assessment, vocabulary p. 70.

9/13 - Chapter 2, Section 3, p71-75

Objectives

1. To analyze the organization of government and society in

Spanish colonies

2. To describe economic activities of the Spanish colonies

3. To evaluate Spanish treatment of Native Americans

4. To trace the Colombian Exchange

Read section, section assessment, vocabulary p. 75

Week of 9/2/2019

9/2 - Labor Day - No School

9/3 - Geographer’s Craft, map skills, data collection.

Note taking skills, LAPS

9/4 - Introduce Geography Handbook, Landscape of America, 5 themes of Geography, LAPS.

Note taking skills

9/5 - Changes within the earth and impacts. Weather and Climate. Note taking skills

9/6 - Vegetation Regions, Human Geography, Political and Economic Systems