7th Grade: Unit 9

CQ: How did Sugar feed the slave trade? (C3 Teachers/Learning for Justice)

CQ: How did Sugar feed the slave trade? (C3 Teachers/Learning for Justice)

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Staging the Compelling Question

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Supporting Question 1: 

What Drove the Sugar Trade? (DBQ World) 

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Supporting Question 2: 

How was sugar cultivated in the Western Hemisphere?

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Supporting Question 3: 

What was life like for enslaved people on sugar plantations in the Western Hemisphere?

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Supporting Question 4: 

How did the silver trade create a global system?

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Supporting Question 5: 

How did European colonizers profit from labor systems in the Americas?

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Summative Performance Task

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Taking Informed Action

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