Central Dauphin School District

Curriculum Unit Map

Subject: Social Studies / Grade Level: 6th / Topic: United States Colonial Settlement
Priority PA Core Standards:
·  CC.8.5.6-8.C: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
·  CC.8.5.6-8.D: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
·  CC.8.5.6-8.F: Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).
·  CC.8.6.6-8.I: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
PA Academic Standards (if applicable):
8.1.6.A: Explain continuity and change over time using sequential order and context of events.
8.3.6.A: Explain the social, political, cultural, and economic contributions of individuals and groups to United States history.
KEY LEARNING:
Pennsylvania today is a state formed by the many contributions and traditions of our immigrants / UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How did European colonization and trade affect Europeans, Africans and Native Americans? / Texts/Resources/Materials:
Harcourt Horizons Textbook, internet, teacher created materials
CONCEPT: Population / CONCEPT: Relations
Lesson Essential Questions:
Why did various peoples come to settle in the new world?
·  Identify where the different colonists came from and where they settled.
·  Why did they settle there (infer relations between water and settlements)
·  Identify their culture/ways of life (examples: religion, how they make a living – farming, hunting, etc.)
·  Reasons they came the new world.
·  Settlements to include:
Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies / Lesson Essential Questions:
What happens when cultures collide?
·  Interpret the relations between the colonists and the Native Americans.
Vocabulary
Academic Specific:
(examples: analyze, trace, identify)
Identify, interpret, infer / Domain (Content) Specific:
(examples: drama, characterization, theme)
Colonists, settlements, indentured servants, cash crops, colony, citizen
Unit Assessment Plan
Common Summative Activities/Performance Tasks/Assessments (from assessment bank):