1. Imperialism in Oceania
Their Political, Social, and Economic Effects

2. Monday Do Now:
Respond to the following question in your Social Studies Notebook:
What other countries exist in the Pacific Ocean? Name as many as you can. What do you know about their culture and way of life.
(If you don’t know anything, what do you predict they might be like?)

3. Tuesday Do Now:
Respond to the following question in your Social Studies Notebook:
Why was it important for explorers to travel with map makers?
Why is it important to be able to read a map today?

4. Oceania
Oceania: a region of the world centered on the islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean.

5. Ethno cultural Boarders
The regions of Oceania are divided along ethno-cultural boundaries.
Ethno-cultural: relating to ethnic and cultural identities

6. 3 Regions of Oceania
Micronesia

7. 3 Regions of Oceania
Melanesia

8. 3 Regions of Oceania
Polynesia

9. Oceania Map Activity
Directions: Use the table to divide Oceania into three regions along ethno cultural boarders.
Micronesia should be bordered and shaded with the color green.
Melanesia should be bordered and shaded with the color red
Polynesia should be bordered and shaded using the color yellow.

10. Wednesday Do Now: What message is this cartoon giving?
Why doesn’t the artist simply use words?
(5-7 sentences)

11. Thursday Do Now:
Respond to the following question in your Social Studies Notebook:
Imagine you are a cab driver. You pick up a traveler at Honolulu International Airport. The woman says to travel WEST on HI, and then Northeast on H2.
What is a possible destination for the traveler?

12. 500 feet

13. Navigating Oceania
You are embarking on a grand expedition across Oceania while serving the Royal Pacific Fleet for the King of England.
The King has asked you to follow a unique set of directions, and to map your course. He would like you to log where you visit, and the associated Oceania region.

14. Friday Do Now:
Respond to the following question in your Social Studies Notebook:
We’ve learned about some things that have driven Hawaii’s economy. Using what you know, what do you think are things that are driving the economies of other islands in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia? (5-7 sentences)

15. Monday Do Now:
In Oceania, there are six categories of Foreigners: Whalers, Traders, Missionaries, Explorers, Blackbirders, and Beachcombers
Today we will learn about blackbirders.

16. Monday Do Now
Blackbirding: The coercion of people through trickery and kidnapping to work as laborers.
1. Copy down the definition on your worksheet.
2. Use context clues to figure out what the word “coercion” means.

17. Monday Do Now:
Coercion: the practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.
Using this information, explain blackbirding in your own words on your paper.

18. Blackbirders Case Study
Turn your attention to the reading.

19. Tuesday Do Now
If you became stranded on this island, what are some thing you would do to survive? (5-7 sentences)

20. Tuesday Definition:
Beachcombing: an activity concerned with “combing,” or searching, the beach, looking for items of value, interest, or usefulness.
It is a term often used to describe people who live on the beach.

21. Beachcombers
There were many reasons why foreigners became beachcombers in Oceania.
First, some people were simply shipwrecked, and had to look around the beach for things to survive with.

22. Beachcombers
Other crew members on ships were troublemakers, who were abandoned by the ship captain.

23. Beachcomber
Others chose to escape their lives in America or other places around the world and were came to Oceania with the prospects of a better life.

24. Beachcomber
Certain beachcombers decided that life in the ocean simply wasn’t for them, and they abandoned their ships for a life based on land

25. Beachcomber
Others had tried to stage a mutiny, or a revolution on the ship, and were trying to hide from certain punishment.

26. Wednesday Do Now: What message is this cartoon giving?
Why doesn’t the artist simply use words?
(5-7 sentences)