World History Lesson Plans November 30 – December 4
Monday:
I. Introduce the Age of Discovery (Chapter 14 Section One)
Focus Question: How did the search for spices lead to global exploration?
Objectives:
 Understand European motivations for exploring the seas.
 Analyze early Portuguese and Spanish explorations.
 Describe European searches for a direct route to Asia
Vocabulary: Prince Henry, cartographer, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Line of Demarcation,
Treaty of Tordesillas, Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigate
Instruction:
1. Discuss the factors leading to the Age of Discovery
2. Infographic-page 448-449
3. Biography-Henry the navigator, Ferdinand Magellan
4. Geography Interactive-page447
Homework-Map Activity (The Word During the Age of Discovery
Tuesday:
II. Continue Age of Discovery-Take up homework
Instruction:
1. Map Activity-Global Explorations
2. Introduce Chapter 15-Section One
Focus: How did European colonization of the Americas shape global economies and societies?
How did a small number of Spanish conquistadors conquer huge Native American empires?
Vocabulary-page 472
Homework-Read Chapter 15 Section One and define/identify Terms, People, and Places.
Wednesday:
Instruction:
1. Analyze the results of the first encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans.
2. Explain how Cortes and Pizarro gained control of the Aztec and Incan empires
-Interpret Primary Source (The Massacre in the Temple of Tenochtitlan)
3. Explain the short-term and long-term effects of the Spanish on the peoples of the Americas
-Write a paragraph
Homework: map Activity (Claims in the Americas, 1700s)
Thursday:
Focus: How did Spain and Portugal build colonies in the Americas?
Objectives:
 Explain how Spain ruled its empire in the Americas.
 Analyze the major features of Spanish colonial society and culture.
 Describe how Portugal and other European nations challenged Spanish power.
Instruction:
4. Vocabulary-page 477.
5. Students read Chapter 15 Section two and define /identify Terms, People, and Places on p.
477.
6. Analyzing Viewpoints Worksheet (Juan de Solorzano y Pereyra & Bartolome de las Casas)
Homework Read Section Three and define/identify terms on p. 482
Friday:
Focus: How did European struggles for power shape the North American continent?
Objectives:
 Explain why the colony of New France grew slowly.
 Analyze the establishment and growth of the English colonies.
 Understand why Europeans competed for power in North America and how their struggle
affected Native Americans
Instruction:
1. Outline the development of Jamestown
2. Discuss why the Pilgrims founded Plymouth
3. Compare/Contrast the founding of Jamestown with that of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
4. Discuss the causes, events, and results of the French and Indian War.
5. Infographic-The Columbian Exchange pages 496-497
Homework: Read Section four and complete a map activity (Triangular Trade Routes)