Teaching Stuff

Colonial America

Time Period: 1492-1754
 
Skill Focus: Analyzing Written Primary Sources







KEY UNITED STATES HISTORY VOCABULARY FOR THE UNIT:

  1. Agricultural Revolution
  2. Columbian Exchange
  3. Mercantilism
  4. Navigation Acts
  5. Salutary Neglect
  6. Half-Way Covenant
  7. The First Great Awakening

DOCUMENTS:

MAPS:

 COURT CASES:

  1. The Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
  2. The John Peter Zenger Trial, 1735

UNIT LECTURE NOTES:

RELEVANT TEXTBOOK CHAPTER(S):

  1. The American Pageant
    1. Chapter 1: New World Beginnings
    2. Chapter 2: The Planting of English America
    3. Chapter 3: Settling Northern Colonies
    4. Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

DAILY SCOPE & SEQUENCE:

  1. September 8/9, 2011: Welcome to Honors United States History I!
    • HW: Complete "Student Information Survey" and Acquire Course Materials 
  2. Day 1/2: Three Worlds Collide in North America
    • Day 1 HW: PowerPoint/Lecture- "An Introduction to Colonial America"
    • Day 2: Read and take notes on Chapter 2 (Reading Quiz after Day 3)
  3. Day 3: The Basis of British Colonial Settlements
    • HW: PowerPoint/Lecture- "Characteristics of the King's Colonies"
    • HW: Reading Quiz next class period based on Chapter 2
  4. Day 4/5: Document-Based Question: "Puritan Values"
    • Day 4 HW: PowerPoint/Lecture- "Mercantilism, The Navigation Acts, and Salutary Neglect"
    • Day 5 HW: Fact Quiz next class period based on days 1-5.
  5. Day 6/7: Salutary Neglect & Its Impact
    • Day 6  HW: Reading Quiz Based on Chapter 4
    • Day 7 HW: PowerPoint/Lecture- "Politics, Education, and The Foundations of Rebellion"
  6. Day 8/9/10: Slave Labor in the King's Colonies
    • Day 8 HW: PowerPoint/Lecture- "The Salem Witch Trials & The Great Awakening"
    • Day 9 HW:
    • Day 10 HW: