The major question for today was: Why would a country create a colony? What does a colony do for its parent/mother country? Immigrants/Diversity in the Colonies First, we looked at a map (p. 67 of your textbook) that illustrated the different ethnic groups in the Americas. We also used this map to identify which colonies [...]
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We started today by talking again about push factors and pull factors. We looked at some examples for why people would move from one place to another. For example, a person might leave Iraq to move to the United States because the country is violent (war, terrorism, etc). Likewise, a person might leave Newark to [...]
For the past two days, we’ve looked at what happened when the Spanish first encountered the Native Americans between 1500 and 1600. We started by considering the fact that between 1500 and 1600, the population of Native Americans in the Americas dropped from over 40 million to just over 10 million. In about a century, [...]
In class today, we started by discussing who discovered America. There are many possible answers, but we started with two extremes – the Native Americans who first came to the Americas around 20,000 BC and Christopher Columbus who explored the Americas around 1492. Then, we asked the question, “Why was European colonization successful after Columbus?” [...]
In class today, we created a graphic organizer to organize some information about kingdoms in West Africa. Here’s an outline version of most of that information… West Africa Ghana – AD 300 – 800/1200 Control trade with Mediterranean Traded gold and sold Mali – Took over control of trade routes from Ghana Emerges as dominant [...]
In class over the past few days, we created a chart to compare Native Americans from four different regions: the Southwest, the Mississippi River Basin, the Great Plains, and the Eastern Woodlands. Southwest Who: Anasazi, Hohokam, Pueblo Food Source: Mostly farming, a little hunting Dry climate, little rain Used irrigation (ditches, canals) to bring water [...]
Today we had two objectives: Think about what makes a society or group of people a “civilization” Explain how the first Native Americans (Paleo-Indians) developed into complex civilizations like the Olmec, Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas Characteristics of Civilizations We started by discussing characteristics of civilizations. There were a lot of different responses from the different [...]
Today we wrapped up our first classwork activity on a timeline of US history and presented our summaries/illustrations. If you were absent and did not make a presentation, refer to the original classwork assignment post to see how to make up the assignment. This will be your first grade for the year, and you want [...]
