Colonization & Settlement – Everyday Americans, Exceptional Americans

Colonial Life Compare/Contrast

Jessica Kilday — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:12:15 +0000

Students will view three prints, one from each of three colonial regions. They will then answer questions about each of the regions to help them differentiate between the three. As a culminating assessment, students will write a letter from a colonist in one region to a colonist in another region stating the similarities and differences between the two places.

Native American: Regions, Natural, Human, and Capital Resources

Jessica Kilday — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:44:02 +0000

This lesson will focus on the five Native American Tribes in North America (Kwakiutl, Inuit, Pueblo, Lakota, and Iroquois). The student will do research to find out the regions that the 5 tribes lived in, and the natural, human, and capital resources that each tribe used that were geographically dependent in order to survive. The Students will be broken down into expert groups to conduct research on the different Native American tribes. Students will then go back to their home groups teach the rest of the group about their particular tribe. Students will then view the primary sources and answer the close reading questions assigned to each of the pictures as a closure/formative assessment.

Slaves and Indentured Servants

Jessica Kilday — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:30:27 +0000

Students will be given either a narrative by Olaudah Equiano describing his enslavement or a description of the practice of indentured servitude by Gottlieb Mittelberger. Students will be divided with half the class reading one source and half the class reading the other just prior to the lesson on Triangular Trade in the unit on Colonies. After reading the narrative, students will write a brief summary of the author’s message. Students will then answer sourcing and contextualizing questions about the narrative. Finally, after discussing the readings together as a class, students will learn the identity of both authors. Students will return to the paper on which they have been recording their answers and now create a Venn diagram of slaves and indentures servants.

Differences among colonial regions

Jessica Kilday — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:11:45 +0000

Students will explore the differences among the three colonial regions of New England, Mid-Atlantic / Middle, and the Southern colonies. In small groups for each region, students will observe and note details of pictures, maps, and advertisements in order to describe each region. Students will use historical reading skills to conclude how the geography and natural environment influenced the economic specialization of each region with special attention to the early colonial era. This lesson will prepare the learner for the concept of interdependence of the colonies as a result of specialization.

Early English Settlements History Detectives

Jessica Kilday — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:21:12 +0000

The lesson will be a “History Detective” activity. The student will investigate the Early English settlements through a variety of sources such as pictures, journals and documents. They will be asked a series of Historical Reading questions. The lesson will encompass the social studies content aligned with the state standards of Virginia.