1. DAILY US HISTORY The Week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 173
DAILY US HISTORY The Week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 17
MONDAY-A
Objectives- 1) Explain why Middle Colonies had the most diverse populations in colonial America. 2) Identify America’s first town planner
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: indentured servant, dissent, persecute, Puritans
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 3 /Surprise Pop-Quiz /In Class Reading Wampanoag Housing” and Pilgrim Housing/Out Loud in Class Reading “Education in Colonial America”/Summative Review Quiz
Homework- Read Pochohontas Article and Answer the reading check questions
indentured servant -laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America
dissent- disagreement with or opposition to an opinion)
persecute- to treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or practices
Puritans- Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform the Anglican Church
TUESDAY-B
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: constitution, debtor, mission
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/In-Class Out Loud Reading “The Early Colonial Experience”/Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review
Homework- Read “Early Explorers and complete the Reading Check Questions”
constitution -a formal plan of government
debtor -person or country that owes money
mission- religious settlement established to convert people to a particular faith.
Line of demarcation- an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal. (page 47)
WEDNESDAY-A
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: constitution, debtor, mission
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/In-Class Out Loud Reading “The Early Colonial Experience”/Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review
Homework- Read “Early Explorers and complete the Reading Check Questions”
constitution -a formal plan of government
debtor -person or country that owes money
mission- religious settlement established to convert people to a particular faith.
THURSDAY-B
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: None
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/ Housing/Out Loud in Class Reading “Education in Colonial Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review/Summative Quiz on “Early Explorers”
Homework- None
FRIDAY-A
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: None
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/ Housing/Out Loud in Class Reading “Education in Colonial Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review/Summative Quiz on “Early Explorers”
Homework- None

2. DAILY US HISTORY The Week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 173
DAILY US HISTORY The Week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 17
MONDAY-A
Objectives- 1) Explain why Middle Colonies had the most diverse populations in colonial America. 2) Identify America’s first town planner
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: indentured servant, dissent, persecute, Puritans
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 3 /Surprise Pop-Quiz /In Class Reading Wampanoag Housing” and Pilgrim Housing/Out Loud in Class Reading “Education in Colonial America”/Summative Review Quiz
Homework- Read Pochohontas Article and Answer the reading check questions
TUESDAY-B
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: constitution, debtor, mission
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/In-Class Out Loud Reading “The Early Colonial Experience”/Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review
Homework- Read “Early Explorers and complete the Reading Check Questions”
Line of demarcation- an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal. (page 47)
WEDNESDAY-A
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: constitution, debtor, mission
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/In-Class Out Loud Reading “The Early Colonial Experience”/Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review
Homework- Read “Early Explorers and complete the Reading Check Questions”
THURSDAY-B
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: None
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/ Housing/Out Loud in Class Reading “Education in Colonial Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review/Summative Quiz on “Early Explorers”
Homework- None
FRIDAY-A
Objectives- 1) Understand why the Southern Colonies were established. 2) Compare and contrast France’s colony in N. America with the English colonies.
Daily History- Define the following words or phrases: None
Activities- PowerPoint Presentation on Chapter 1, Section 4 /Colonial Chronology Graphic Organizer,/ Housing/Out Loud in Class Reading “Education in Colonial Hard Lockdown Practice/Cell Phone Review/Summative Quiz on “Early Explorers”
Homework- None

3. Essential Question The Week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 17
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
MONDAY
We have been taught throughout our school careers that the Pilgrims came to America to flee religious persecution, we now know that most of them departed from the Netherlands. Why did the Pilgrims want to leave the Netherlands?
TUESDAY
Knowing what you know now, if you were a Puritan living in the Netherlands would you have made the trip to the new World? Why or why not?
WEDNESDAY
Knowing what you know now, if you were a Puritan living in the Netherlands would you have made the trip to the new World? Why or why not?
THURSDAY
Why were slaves more prevalent on farms in the Southern Colonies as opposed to those in the Middle and New England Colonies?
FRIDAY
Why were slaves more prevalent on farms in the Southern Colonies as opposed to those in the Middle and New England Colonies?
Why did the Puritans want to leave the Netherlands?

4. Essential Question The Week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 17
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
MONDAY
We have been taught throughout our school careers that the Pilgrims came to America to flee religious persecution, we now know that most of them departed from the Netherlands. Why did the Pilgrims want to leave the Netherlands?
Answers will vary, but should include the ideas that they did not want their children to be corrupted by the loosed Dutch morals and that there were few economic opportunities available to them
TUESDAY
Knowing what you know now, if you were a Puritan living in the Netherlands would you have made the trip to the new World? Why or why not?
Answers will vary but should include discussion about the fact that the two sips that were supposed to bring the Pilgrims over to the New World were rickety, the voyage was dangerous, over half of the people died during a three month period once they arrived in the New World, and they had no idea what to expect on the far side.
WEDNESDAY
Knowing what you know now, if you were a Puritan living in the Netherlands would you have made the trip to the new World? Why or why not?
Answers will vary but should include discussion about the fact that the two sips that were supposed to bring the Pilgrims over to the New World were rickety, the voyage was dangerous, over half of the people died during a three month period once they arrived in the New World, and they had no idea what to expect on the far side.
THURSDAY
Why were slaves more prevalent on farms in the Southern Colonies as opposed to those in the Middle and New England Colonies?
The farms in the South were mainly cash crop farms and these farms were revenue producing and had the capital to buy slaves and servants. The farms in the other colonies were mainly subsistence farms and they did not have the necessary capital to but slaves. The crops grown in the Southern colonies were generally more labor intensive than those grown in the other colonies.
FRIDAY
Why were slaves more prevalent on farms in the Southern Colonies as opposed to those in the Middle and New England Colonies?
The farms in the South were mainly cash crop farms and these farms were revenue producing and had the capital to buy slaves and servants. The farms in the other colonies were mainly subsistence farms and they did not have the necessary capital to but slaves. The crops grown in the Southern colonies were generally more labor intensive than those grown in the other colonies.
Why did the Puritans want to leave the Netherlands?