1. Unit: Social Sciences, Geography, and Native Americans
MYP Unit Question: How does WHERE we live affect HOW we live?
Focus Question: How did different culture groups adapt to their environment?
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
 Happy Constitution Day 
Reminders:
Unit 1 Test: Friday, 9/20: extra help Thursday, 9/19 and Friday, 7:15am
Road trip due October 8th
Focus Activity:
Finish teepees
Take a DIFFERENT color crayon from the box
Homework:
Paragraph (pg. 25)
Study!

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

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

8. Binghamton University

9. Unit: Social Sciences, Geography, and Native Americans
MYP Unit Question: How does WHERE we live affect HOW we live?
Focus Question: How did different culture groups adapt to their environment?
Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
 Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day 
Reminders:
Unit 1 Test: Friday, 9/20: extra help tomorrow, 9/19 and Friday, 7:15am
Road trip due October 8th
Focus Activity:
Hand in HW (paragraph)
Read/answer “Iroquois Culture: Using Their Land” (pg. 26)
Homework:
Stop and Check (pg. 29)
Study!

11. 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.

12. 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 (Algonquians or Great Britain)

13. 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!

14. 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

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