Colonial Foundations

Students will be introduced to the vocabulary in Unit 1

Mad libs for Unit 1 - Colonial America 

Students will use a durable learning routine, images draw you in, to think conceptually about unit themes and essential questions.  

Adapted from NEH's Curricular Resource - students compare early maps of the 13 colonies.  

Students will look at various maps in order to understand the geography of the 13 colonies.

Students will read excerpts of Native American speeches in order to understand the impact of European colonization on Native Americans.

Students will do a differentiated activity where they examine Native American speeches in order to understand the impact of European colonization on Native Americans.

Students will compare a primary and secondary source to examine the causes of Bacon's Rebellion. 

Students will examine pie charts to investigate what made the economies of the northern, southern, and middle colonies different. 

Students will do a differentiated activity to analyze what made the economies of the northern, southern, and middle colonies different. 

Students will compare the indentured servitude to slavery through an examination of different primary sources.  

Students will analyze the institution of slavery in colonial America by analyzing a variety of primary and secondary sources.  

Students will explore the reasons that American colonists unified in advance of the French and Indian War.

Students will write an essay in which they discuss some examples of self-governing structures that evolved in the colonies and describe the impact of the Magna Carta and Enlightenment thinkers on the evolution of self-governing structures in the colonies.

Students will recall content learned in unit 1 and organize and align content according to the three unit themes (environment, economy, and government).  Students will then use this content as evidence to answer the unit 1 essential questions.  

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