Early US History

Early Leaders

Textbook Modules: 7

Founding our Nation

Goal: Understand why we need a Constitution and what ours says.

Textbook chapters: 5 6

American Revolution Unit

3/12: Revolution 3x Vocab

3/13: Create a timeline of the French and Indian War. Choose 5 key events from the fighting and summarize them in 2-3 sentences. Add a picture for each event. You can make these on paper or on a slideshow. Book pages: 95-98. Duckster's Page.

3/18: Group slideshows on topics in the early American Revolution

3/19:

First Americans & Early Explorers

2/5: Native American Tribes - Read about one tribe of your choosing and summarize what makes/made them unique in two paragraphs. You may use this link or Module 1: Lesson 2in your textbook. Some details you could include: Where they lived, what their lives were like, what their religious beliefs are/were. Focus more on culture than what happened to them later in US history.

2/12: Project Directions

Primary Source options:

-Packet on Middle Passage

-Letter from Christopher Columbus

-Image of John Smith's time in Virginia

-Website of small pox being given to natives (be careful, as only the quotes they use are primary- the rest is secondary)

Activity 20.2 Citation: “The Columbian Exchange.” EconEdLink, 23 Dec. 2015, www.econedlink.org/resources/the-columbian-exchange/.

Colonies readings: Housel, Debra J. Leveled Texts for Social Studies. Shell Education, 2013.

US History book: United States History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

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3/1: Middle Colonies Websearch

3/4: Colonies Simulation