1. Unit: Social Sciences, Geography, and Native Americans
MYP Unit Question: How does WHERE we live affect HOW we live?
Focus Question: Have the Iroquois influenced American society?
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
 Welcome! 
Reminders:
Unit 1 Test Thursday!
Focus Activity:
Hand in paragraph HW (pg. 25)
Homework:
STUDY FOR UNIT 1 TEST! Extra help Thurs. morning, 7:15
Road trip

7. In addition to farming, some Iroquois tribes would fish for food
In addition to farming, some Iroquois tribes would fish for food. Nets were used in the springtime, and holes cut into the ice were used in the wintertime.

8. What decisions did the Iroquois Grand Council have to make?
Trade agreements
Going to war
Peace treaties

9. Shell beads used for record keeping, trade, and decoration
Wampum:
Shell beads used for record keeping, trade, and decoration

10. Let’s Make a Decision, Iroquois Confederacy Style!
Members of your enemy, the Algonquin tribe, have been sneaking into your longhouses and stealing the deer and moose meat that your tribe members worked hard to get. Should you go to war or negotiate a treaty?
Each group of tribes should decide what the Iroquois should do, and why. After, we will see if everyone has agreed on how the Algonquins should be stopped!

11. Binghamton University

12. Representative Government
Can you guess which vocabulary word the following definition belongs to?
“A government in which people choose leaders to make decisions for them”
ANSWER:
Representative Government

13. Iroquois and the United States: Similarities
Both are Representative Governments
Women (Iroquois) or citizens (U.S.) choose leaders to represent and make decisions for the entire group
Broken up into smaller groups (tribes or states)
Worked together against a common enemy (Algonquins or Great Britain)

14. Exit Card
How much has the Iroquois culture influenced United States culture? Give specific examples.