Standards
SS.8.A.2.2 Compare the characteristics of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. Examples may include, but are not
limited to, colonial governments, geographic influences, occupations, religion, education, settlement patterns, and social
patterns.
SS.8.A.2.3 Differentiate economic systems of New England, Middle and Southern colonies including indentured servants
and slaves as labor sources. Examples may include, but are not limited to, subsistence farming, cash crop farming, and
maritime industries.
SS.8.A.2.4 Identify the impact of key colonial figures on the economic, political, and social development of the colonies.
Examples may include, but are not limited to, John Smith, William Penn, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John
Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, Nathaniel Bacon, John Peter Zenger, and Lord Calvert.
SS.8.A.2.5 Discuss the impact of colonial settlement on Native American populations.
Examples may include, but are not limited to, war, disease, loss of land, westward displacement of tribes causing increased
conflict between tribes, and dependence on trade for Western goods, including guns.
SS.8.A.2.6 Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the French and Indian War.
Examples may include, but are not limited to, ongoing conflict between France and England, territorial disputes,
trade competition, Ft. Duquesne, Ft. Quebec, Treaty of Paris, heavy British debt.
SS.8.A.2.7 Describe the contributions of key groups (Africans, Native Americans, women, and children) to the society and
culture of colonial America.

Unit 2

Vocabulary

charter / Jamestown / John Smith
House of Burgesses / Plymouth Colony / Mayflower Compact
Squanto / John Winthrop / toleration
Roger Williams / Anne Hutchinson / Thomas Hooker
John Wheel-right / town meeting / King Phillip’s War
Puritans / proprietary colony / royal colony
William Penn / backcountry / tidewater
Bacon’s Rebellion / Lord Baltimore / James Oglethorpe
debtor / indentured servant / slave
plantation / Magna Carta / legislature
English Bill of Rights / habeas corpus / John Peter Zenger
extended family / apprentice / gentry
middle class / Middle Passage / triangular trade
racism / slave codes / public school
dame school / Anne Bradstreet / Phillis Wheatley
Benjamin Franklin / Johnathan Edwards / The Great Awakening
John Locke / Baron de Montesquieu / The Enlightenment

Learning Goal: The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes, course, and consequences of British settlement in the American colonies.

Bell Ringer 10/12/15- Students will complete a Double Bubble comparing Indenture Servant to Slaves in the colonies. Student will them write a 1 paragraph about their findings in the double bubble.

Objective: Students will be able to differentiate the difference between a slave and an indentured servant. Student will also be able to analyze the role slavery played in the colonization of the new world. Students will also be able to analyze how colonial life impacted life today?

Essential Questions:

What role did slaves and indentured servants play in the formation of the United States? If certain events of the colonial era never happened how would your life be impacted life today?

I do: I will go over the scale for Unit 2. I will go over the impact of slavery in the colonies. I will explain power point to students.

We do: We will take Cornell Style notes.

You do: Work effectively and take notes and complete a summary in their notes about what they learned during the lecture.

High Order Question: How is life in the colonies different from life today? What are some similarities and some differences of life back then to life now?

Exit Ticket: Student will write down three things they learned about the slave trade today and one thing they would change if they could go back in time to the formation of America.

Homework: none

10/13/15

Bell Ringer: Students will complete a circle map on religion and write one paragraph about what your finding are.

Objective: Students will be able to evaluate life in the New England, middle colonies and southern colonies.Students will also be able to analyze how colonial life impacted life today?

Essential Question: In what ways was American culture developed and influenced by the colonial period? If certain events of the colonial era never happened how would your life be impacted life today?

I do: I will facilitate the lesson and lecture as students take notes on religion and education in the colonies.

We do: Students will take Cornell notes

You do: Students will work effectively and take good notes and summarize their notes

Higher Order Question: How does the great awakening effect life in America now?

Exit Ticket: List three things you learned in class today, two things you found interesting, and one thing you are not sure about.

10/14/15

Bell Ringer: Students will complete a circle map on religion and write one paragraph about what your finding are.

Objective: Students will be able to evaluate life in the new England, middle colonies and southern colonies. . Students will also be able to analyze how colonial life impacted life today?

Essential Question: In what ways was American culture developed and influenced by the colonial period? If certain events of the colonial era never happened how would your life be impacted life today?

I do: I will facilitate the lesson and lecture as students take notes on the enlightenment in the colonies.

We do: Students will take Cornell notes

You do: Students will work effectively and take good notes and summarize their notes

Higher Order Question: How does The Enlightenment effect life in America now?

Exit Ticket: List three things you learned in class today, two things you found interesting, and one thing you are not sure about.

10/15/15 -10/16/15

Bell Ringer: Students will complete a analyzing activity which will be on PPT.

Objective: Students will examine the cause, course, and consequences of the French and Indian War

Essential Question: How did the French and Indian War draw colonist closer together, but increase friction with Britain.

I do: I will facilitate the lesson about the cause of French and Indian War. I will go over power point and discuss the war.

We do: Well will take Cornell notes

You do: You will summarize your notes

Exit Ticket: Write down three things you learned about causes of French and Indian War

Higher Order Question: If you were new comer to New World what would make you want to stay or leave the colonies. How do you think colonist thought life would be like when they decided to come to the new land?

Exit Ticket: List three things you learned in class today, two things you found interesting, and one thing you are not sure about.

Scale:

LEARNING GOAL: The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes, course, and consequences of British settlement in the American colonies
LEVEL 4: I can evaluate the causes, course, and consequences of British settlement in the American colonies by describing the religious and economic events and conditions that led to the colonization of America.
LEVEL 3: Students will:
a)Evaluate the goals and competition for colonization
b)Compare and contrast Spanish, French, and English colonization in the New World
c)Compare and contrast early settlements in the New World: Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth.
d)Evaluate how Native American populations were impacted by colonial settlement
e)Compare and contrast colonial regions in regards to location and climate, economy, social life, and political and civic life.
f)Evaluate colonial life in respect to the different groups that settled in distinct regions
g)Compare and contrast the colonial experience between large landowners, farmers, artisans, women and Native Americas
h)Evaluate the goals of mercantilism
i)Compare and contrast the colonial experience between slaves and indentured servants
j)Evaluate the experience/perspective of African Americans arriving in the New World
LEVEL 2: Students will:
  1. Define colonization
  2. Describe Spanish, French, and English settlements in the Americas
  3. Identify early English colonies
  4. Understand how colonists and Native Americans interacted
  5. Understand the characteristics of colonial regions
  6. Differentiate the colonial regions gaining understanding of each specific location and climate, economy, social life, and political and civic life.
  7. Describe how colonial life differentiated between large landowners, farmers, artisans, women and Native Americas
  8. Define mercantilism
  9. Understand the triangular trade, slavery, and indentured servitude
  10. Understand slavery and the middle passage

LEVEL 1: With help, a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and process (Level 2 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Level 3).
LEVEL 0: Even with help, no understanding