1. 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

2. 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.

3. 8/26 Warm Up Make sure you have turned in your signed syllabus slip to the tray. It is due today!

4. 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 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

16. 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!*

17. 8/31 Warm Up Interpretation: Assessment of Columbus
Begin reading and answering the questions on the handout I gave you as you walked in!

18. 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