The World Before 1492 and Discovery
Unit Calendar Sept 14
Apel Required Readings: each readings must be accompanied with an documents analysis sheet
which can be found on my website.
Fraser
CHAPTER 1 and 2
Taylor American Colonies
Introduction Chapter 1
Cherokee Creation story
Iroquois Creation story
Zuni Creation Story
Genesis-Old Testament
North America on the Eve of
Contact
Trouble with Columbus
New Worlds for All
Columbus, Indians and Human
Progress
Columbus Reading
Virgin soils revisited
Early Colonies-VA/ Chesapeake
Remarks by Chief Powhatan
Laws of Virginia
List of Jamestown settlers
Hariot Report on Tobacco
Harriot on the Algonquin People
Western Planting 1584
John smith The Starving time
Massachusetts
Mayflower passenger list
Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop MCC
Puritan mistreatment of Quakers
A report on the Admin of New
England
Laws of the Mass. Bay colony
Declaration of the Gentlemen of
Boston
The Great Awakening Butler
A Fever in Salem
The Great Awakening: Kidd
The Devil in the shape of a Woman
Thursday 9-4 (Half Day) - discuss course handout description and textbooks—
Assignment due—Sumer assignments
Friday 9-5 (Day 1)-DROP
Monday 9-8 (Day 2) The World of the Native Americans before contact
- How did they get here
o In What ways did they adapt to the new world
o How/why were the peoples different
Do Now: Reading: group work with the creation story documents and document analysis sheets.
Complete the sheets for HW.
HW: Columbus, Indians and Human Progress – Zinn (DAS_ Questions)
Tuesday 9-9 (Day 3) - Summer Reading Test
Due and Zinn question and DAS Creation DAS
HW- North America on the Eve of contact (DAS)
Virgin Soil Revisited (DAS)
Wednesday 9-10 (Day 4) The World of the Native Americans before contact
- How did they get here
o In What ways did they adapt to the new world
o How/why were the peoples different
HW DUE North America on the Eve of contact (DAS)
Virgin Soil Revisited (DAS)
HW- review question pg 57-59 1.1-1.16
New Worlds for All (DAS)
Thursday 9-11 (Day 1) DROP
Friday 9-12 (Day 2) - - What was the real cause of European exploration of the Atlantic?
what Eurasian issue forced the rulers in Europe to seek new avenues to
the East?
HW DUE
review question pg 57-59 1.1-1.16
New Worlds for All (DAS)
HWColumbus Reading (DAS)
Trouble with Columbus (DAS)
Monday 9-15 (Day 3) – Portugal goes first/Where and why?
Columbus and the discovery of the America’s
Columbian Exchange
HW DUE
Columbus Reading (DAS)
Trouble with Columbus (DAS)
Short answer questions 1.17 and 1.18
Short answers can be no more than one page—No thesis is needed- use facts answer the
question directly.
Tuesday 9-16 (Day 4) The Explorer’s Spain, France, Dutch
How did Spain dominate Central America
HW DUE
Short answer questions 1.17 and 1.18
Short answers can be no more than one page—No thesis is needed- use facts
answer the question directly.
HW
HW-
Hariot Report on Tobacco
Harriot on the Algonquin People
Western Planting 1584
(DAS)
Wednesday 9-17 (Day 1) DROP
Thursday 9-18 (Day 2)- TEST
Friday 9-19 (Day 3) English exploration and colonial developmentLink the causal factors that forced the English to begin exploration of the New World
HW DUE
Hariot Report on Tobacco
Harriot on the Algonquin People
Western Planting 1584
(DAS)
HW
Remarks by Chief Powhatan
Laws of Virginia
List of Jamestown settlers
John smith The Starving time
Monday 9-22 (Day 4) Evaluate the regional development of the American Colonies by exploring the
economic voracity of the Southern Colonies
HW DUE
Remarks by Chief Powhatan
HW
Laws of Virginia
List of Jamestown settlers
John smith The Starving time
Mayflower passenger list
Mayflower Compact
Laws of the Mass. Bay colony
Tuesday 9-23 (Day 1) DROP
Wednesday 9-24 (Day 2)_ Evaluate the regional development of the American Colonies by examining the
success and challenges of religious idealism in the Northern Colonies HW DUE
Mayflower passenger list
HW
Mayflower Compact
Laws of the Mass. Bay colony
John Winthrop MCC
Puritan mistreatment of Quakers
A report on the Admin of New England
Thursday 9-25 OFF
Friday 9-26 (Day 3) Evaluate the regional development of the American Colonies by examining the
social diversity that existed in the Middle Colonies
HW DUE
John Winthrop MCC
Puritan mistreatment of Quakers
A report on the Admin of New England
HW
pg. 125-128 questions 2.1-2.23
Monday 9-29 (Day 4) Examine the factors contributing to the system of Mercantalism and the ways in
which economic neglect created distance between the Colonies and the mother country HW DUE
pg. 125-128 questions 2.1-2.23
HW
The Great Awakening Butler and The Great Awakening: Kidd
Tuesday 9-30 (Day 1) DROP
Wednesday 10-1 (Day 2) Analyze factors contributing to Indian resistance in Colonial North America HW DUE
The Great Awakening Butler
The Great Awakening: Kidd
HW
The Devil in the shape of a Woman
A Fever in Salem
Thursday 10-2 (Day 3) Assess the factors that lead to racial slavery in the American colonies
HW DUE
The Devil in the shape of a Woman
A Fever in Salem
HW
Slavery Packet
Friday 10-3 (Day 4) Exam the causation behind the various political conflicts in which political neglect
created a split between the Colonies and England
HW DUE
Slavery Packet
Monday 10-5 (Day 1) DROP
Tuesday 10-6 (Day 2) Test