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Here are you assignments for this week - be sure to check in with me if you are absent.

Monday – Sept 18th –
CONSTITUTION DAY ACTIVITIES

Tuesday 9/19
1.***Quiz on Columbus - DeSoto (explorer chart) and 2 col. notes from last week.***

2. Warm-up – Why did Columbus sail to America so many times?
3. 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.
4. Read letter (transparency) to class written by Columbus as he is making one of his journeys to America and discuss – and share facts about Columbus.
5. Explain RAFT activity to class – due Friday, 9/22

Wednesday 9/20 (EARLY RELEASE) – Social Studies teachers at an in-service

1. Warm-up – on own, students need to 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. This needs to be turned in when completed.
2. Hand out study guide for the chapter – this will be due completed on Monday – Sept. 25.
3. Continue working on RAFT activity – due on Friday.

Thursday 9/21

1. Warm-up – What is the right of first discovery?
2. Finish notes that were started last week.
3. Complete French Locations in the New World – looking at where the French settled and why – discuss as a class

Friday 9/22

1. Warm-up – Why might some countries had 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.

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