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Compelling Question: What happened when the three worlds met?
Compelling Question: What happened when the three worlds met?
SS050200_unit.final (5).docUnit Overview
Unit Overview
Supporting Questions:
What is history?
What does it mean to “think like a historian?”
What are primary sources?
What are secondary sources?
What are the five themes of geography?
How were the worlds of America, Africa, and Europe alike and different?
How and why did the three worlds meet?
How did Europeans, American Indians, and Africans view the meeting of their three worlds?
Instructional Sequence
Instructional Sequence
Lesson 1: Thinking Like a Historian
Lesson 3: Comparing Southwest Native Americans and Pacific Northwest Native Americans
Lesson 4: Eastern Woodland Native Americans
Lesson 5: A Brief Look at West Africa
Lesson 6: Reasons for Exploration
Lesson 7: A Case Study of Columbus
Performance Task
Performance Task
Using the Lesson 9 short diary entries in which they describe the convergence of Europeans, American Indians, and Africans from the perspective of each of the three groups as a foundation, in groups of three, they will act out a skit including all three perspectives.
Summative Writing Assessment
Summative Writing Assessment
Students will answer the compelling question: What happened when the three worlds met? When different groups of people converged on the same land after 1492, how did Native American, Spanish, African and European people interact with each other? Describe how some groups tried to overpower others.
MC3_Unit_Assessment_Grade_5_Unit_2_Teacher_Booklet.pdfUnit Assessment
Unit Assessment
Teacher Facing
MC3_Unit_Assessment_Grade_5_Unit_2.pdfUnit Assessment
Unit Assessment
Student Facing
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