Welcome Back! 8/25 Warm Up: Look at the giant green letters underneath the board. These are the 7 themes of US History. In groups, discuss what you think each theme means and which type of historical events would apply to each category. Ex: politics and power=government

Welcome Back! 8/25 If you have a cell phone that connects to the internet, please complete the first day survey. Use the QR code below or at your desks to get there. No QR reader? Find it on my faculty webpage.

8/26 Warm Up Make sure you have turned in your signed syllabus slip to the tray. It is due today!

America 1491: How did the environment affect the societies in the Americas? Friday 8/26 Directions: In groups you will be given the characteristics of the different environments of America in 1491. Each group member should have their own sheet of paper for this activity. Using these features, you must hypothesize what type of society lives there, explaining … Culture/lifestyle Food sources (hunting-gathering, farming, or both) Clothing Housing

Northwestern Native Americans Culture and lifestyle: hunters & fishers; totem poles Clothing: animals (furs and skins) along with raincoats made of bark Houses: mostly plank houses made with cedar

Plateau Native Americans Culture & lifestyle: Nomadic hunter gatherers, fishing Foods: vegetables, fruits, meat & fish Clothing: Bark breechcloth/ panchos. Men would wrap their legs with fur, women had hemp leggings. Housing: dependant on materials available Teepees, tule mat lodges lean-tos & pit houses In the winter permanent villages, warmer months nomadic

Great Basin Native Americans Culture and life style: “desert culture” Nomadic hunter gatherers Clothing: breechcloth and dresses of skins or woven grass Housing: brush shelters, wickiups and lean-tos

California Native Americans Culture and lifestyle: hunting/gathering and fishing. Clothing: Chumash ‘treasure basket’ Housing: grass mat houses, cedar bark lodges, Redwood plank houses, pit houses or earth lodges

Southwest Native Americans Culture and lifestyle: farmers and nomadic hunters Clothing: deer or sheepskin, or wool Housing: adobe (pueblo) houses with hunters living in brush shelters or wickiups

Great Plains Indians Culture and lifestyle: Nomadic hunters Clothing: bison skin Housing: teepees, with permanent earth lodges found by the rivers.

Eastern Woodland (Northeastern) Native Americans Culture and lifestyle: mixed- farming and hunting/gathering, fishing and trapping Clothing: animal skins (buckskins) in the winter Houses: wigwams made of birchbark and longhouses

Southeastern Native Americans Culture and lifestyle: Nomadic hunters, fishers and farmers Clothing: deerskin clothes, rabbit fur and porcupine quills Housing: Caddo beehive thatched grass houses

Sub Arctic Native Americans Culture and lifestyle: Nomadic hunter-gatherer Clothing: made of moose or caribou skin, shirt, pants, robes and moccasins Housing: pit houses, wigwams, teepees, smokehouses, igloos, and lean-tos

8/29 Columbian Exchange Warm Up and Discussion Using the Columbian Exchange handout at your tables, answer the following 3 part question in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper: Which contribution from the Old World made the most impact on the New World and why? Which contribution from the New World made the most impact on the Old World and why? Overall, was the Columbian exchange more of a positive or negative event? Explain. You have to choose just one! *Defend your answers by providing the significance of the contribution and consider the long-term impacts!*

8/31 Warm Up Interpretation: Assessment of Columbus Begin reading and answering the questions on the handout I gave you as you walked in!

Warm Up 8/30 Please take out your lecture notes on Period 1, so that I can check them while you work. Shade and label the four European settlement areas in N. America. Be sure to also label the following: -Quebec -Boston -New Amsterdam -Jamestown -St. Augustine -New Orleans -New Spain