Welcome back from
the holiday weekend. I hope you were able to rest, relax and enjoy your
families and friends! This week our focus will be geography of the East
Coast/13 Colonies and the Colonial Slave Trade.
If you missed the quiz on Tuesday, please take it this week.
Extra Help or Make-up
Times: Before school between 8 and
9am; at lunch by appointment, 1st or 2nd period by
appointment.
Monday:
1. Maps and Demographics of the Slave Trade – Students
will begin by analyzing some the geography and staggering statistics of the
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
2. We’ll be reading and from A Young People’s History p.
19-33, on Colonial Slavery. Students will be annotating using the Thinking Like Historians framework that
helps us be critical historical readers.
3. Quizzes returned and reviewed from last Tuesday.
Tuesday:
1. Colonial Geography – We’ll look at British American
political and geographic borders. We’ll
also examine the causes of various colonial settlements. Geography Quiz on Friday
2. Groups of 5 (one student for each category) will share
their Thinking Like Historians
annotations and we will then share out as a whole group. Our purpose is to both
see what we’ve learned from this text and to identify how reading through an
historical lens is a special and different task than simply reading.
HW: Due tomorrow – Do pre-reading vocab for tomorrow’s article.
Wednesday:
1. Geography Review Game – We’ll begin with this interactive game that involves fly
swatters and maps.
2. HW Check – We’ll review pre-reading vocab together.
3.
Stories of the Slaves – In reading groups, students will be reading the
biographies of three African Slaves. How
were their lives and treatment dissimilar to the promises held generations
earlier in the Declaration of
Independence? Which Thinking Like Historians categories are most applicable
to these biographies?
Thursday:
1. SIGH Primary Image Analysis – Slave Ship
2. Review for Quiz
tomorrow – As a group we will organize this week’s notes and geography
details for tomorrow’s short assessment.
Friday:
1.
Brief Quiz: Slavery Vocabulary & Colonial
Geography
2. Video Clip and Discussion: Amistad