Unit 2-Revolutionary America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Slavery Paragraphs

• Introduce Unit 2-Revolutionary America
• Activity: Road to the Revolution
• Pass back Unit 1 Exam-Explain test corrections
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 4 Section 1

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 3 Section 4
• Discuss: the French and Indian War
• Discuss: The French and Indian War: the Emergence of George Washington
• Video: The War that Made America
• Map Activity: before and After the French and Indian War
• Unit 1 Review (Anthem Chapters 2 and 3)

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Review: Chapter 3 Section 3
Discuss: the European Enlightenment (Look familiar?)
Read: Quotes from Benjamin Franklin (He was the Man!)
Analyze: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 4

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 3 Section 1
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 3 Section 2
• Evaluate: the Wheatley Poem
• View: Slavery in America

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Chapter Attack: Chapter 2 Section 4
• Discuss: The Middle Colonies and Religious Toleration
• Watch: the Dutch lose New Netherland to the British

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Finish: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Discuss: Role of Religion in the Northern Colonies
• Analyze: Colonial Problems (Antinomian Controversy/Salem Witch Trials)
• Video clip: Salem Witch Trials

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Discussion: Native Americans in Colonial America
• Read: 13 interesting facts about the Pequot War
• Video clip: King Philips War

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda: The Northern and Middle Colonies

• Quiz on Tobacco/Smith and Bradford handouts 
• Geography: 13 Colonies
• Chapter Attack: Chapter 2 Section 3
• Virtual Tour: Plymouth plantation 

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Review: Chapter 2 Section 2 
• Primary Source Reading: Smith and Bradford Describe the Colonies
• Economics Chart: Tobacco in the Colonies
• Video (3min.) Life in Jamestown

Unit 1-Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

• Discussion: America prior to European Exploration and Christopher Columbus
• Howard Zinn video clip on de las Casas
• Introduce the American Anthem textbook and the Chapter Attack
• Chapter Attack-Chapter 2 Section 1
• Contemporary Issue: Columbus Day is out in Seattle public schools

Bring in the signed course expectation sheets if you have not yet.

Unit 1 Colonial America

Today's Agenda:

Lets have some fun!

• US Citizenship and Immigrations Services (Can you pass the exam to be a citizen?)
• History Questions Every Patriot Should be able to Answer