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September 25, 2006
Monday:
1. Lecture on Spanish and English race to claim lands in New World – background on their relationship, as far as powers of the world.
2. Anticipation Guide – pages 64-68
3. Study guide – due tomorrow
4. Ch. 5 test on Wednesday.
Tuesday:
1. Finish Anticipation guide from yesterday
2. Review game to prepare for tomorrow’s test
Wednesday:
1. Chapter 5 Test
2. Illustrate chapter 6
**Why was England able to take over in the race for new land in North America?
Thursday:
1. Return test and discuss
2. Judge illustrations from yesterday
3. Picture analysis pages 70-71 – complete and discuss to introduce chapter
4. Ocean travel – overhead – discuss as a class.
**Warm-up – How could ocean travel be dangerous in the 1500’s-1600’s.
Friday:
1. Briefly discuss life in England with debtor’s prison being overcrowded, Oglethorpe’s John Percival, dirty, rats, etc. Tell students that b/c Oglethorpe is high up in Parliament, he has some options as to how to solve this problem: put problem on the board – “What to do with overcrowded jails?” With a partner, the students write the problem on their paper, and come up with 3-4 options to solve the problem, then 2 consequences for each option (one positive and one negative), then make a decision based on what he should do and why. Discuss as class – then discuss what really happened.
2. Start Outline: pages 72-76 (I, II, III – due Monday)
**Essential question for chapter 6: What were the factors that caused England to set up both Georgia as well as the other 12 English colonies?
Posted by Jakaitis at 04:26 PM
September 20, 2006
Monday:
CONSTITUTION DAY ACTIVITIES
Tuesday:
1. Warm-up – Why did Columbus sail to America so many times?
2. Columbian Exchange w/Columbus reaches America activity (students are looking at what items were brought to Europe from the New World and vice-versa – both good and bad things – discuss as a class
3. Read letter (transparency) to class written by Columbus as he is making one of his journeys to America and discuss
4. Share facts about Columbus
5. Explain RAFT activity to class – due Friday, 9/22
Wednesday :(EARLY RELEASE)
1. Warm-up – Individually, students will compare the efforts of France, Portugal, and Spain to settle the New World. They need to include the issue with the Line of Demarcation. They can make some sort of 3-way Venn diagram to make the comparison or write a paragraph
2. Hand out study guide for the Chapter 5 Test – this needs to be completed by on Monday, 9/25
3. Continue working on RAFT activity – due on Friday
Thursday:
1. Warm-up – What is the right of first discovery?
2. Finish notes that were started on Tuesday
3. Complete French Locations in the New World – looking at where the French settled and why – discuss as a class
Friday:
1. Warm-up – Why might some countries been willing to go to war to keep their claims on areas in the New World?
2. Finish any activity not completed yesterday
3. Turn in RAFTS – share any from volunteers
4. Have students complete “Anticipation Guide” for pages 64-68 and discuss as a class
Posted by Jakaitis at 12:09 AM
September 14, 2006
Progress Reports for the first four and a half weeks will be sent home with your child on Friday.
Posted by Jakaitis at 11:17 AM
September 11, 2006
We have ITBS testing this week – Sept. 11-15, and we will see classes every other day.
Monday/Tuesday:
1. Warm-up: Why did it take so long for explorers to reach the New World? - meaning: Why didn’t they try to come here sooner?
2. Share Chapter 5 Illustrations
3. Concept map of the term “EXPLORER” – definition, 3-4 examples, 4-5 characteristics – students do this alone then class discusses (discuss what would make a person want to be an explorer, why only men were explorers, countries racing to the New World, colonization rules developed along the way, etc)
4. Start Explorer chart – Columbus to DeSoto
Wednesday/Thursday:
1. Warm-up – Why did explorers come to the New World? How did they change life for the Native Americans?
2. Start notes – Marco Polo through the Treaty of Tordesillas – students fill in 2-column notes guide as they listen to the lecture.
3. Finish Explorer chart for homework – due next day of class
Friday: SURPRISE
Posted by Jakaitis at 10:46 AM
September 05, 2006
Monday:
NO SCHOOL – LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
Tuesday:
1. Briefly discuss how rest of chapter 4 goes into the different Indian time periods – weapon development, foods, where/how they lived, etc.
3. Have students complete Indian Groups chart by reading the chapter and filling in as they go
***Warm-up – Why do we have no school on Labor Day?
Wednesday:
1. Quiz using the Indian Groups worksheet
2. Discuss chart with basic notes on advances in civilization
3. Watch last section of Georgia Stories I – prog. 2 (DeSoto)
***Warm-up – What can you learn about a civilization by the homes that they live in?
Thursday:
1. Chapter 4 vocabulary activity – with a partner, students complete story about the people who lived in prehistoric Georgia
2. Chart test – using the Indian Groups chart, textbook, and any other available resources from home, the students are to answer 3 out of 5 questions that relate to how a society develops into a civilized culture such as we live in today.
***What do you think the Native Americans were thinking when DeSoto and his men landed in the New World?
Friday:
1. Warm-up question – as a quick written activity: Christopher Columbus is often credited with “discovering” America, although the land he discovered was already inhabited. Imagine that you are one of the Native Americans who was living in North America when Columbus arrived. You later learn that he has taken credit for the “discovery” of your home. Write a response to his claim.
2. Return vocabulary activity.
3. Turn in “chart test” from yesterday.
4. Illustrate chapter 5.
5. Notebook check – chapters 3 & 4.
Posted by Jakaitis at 10:21 AM
