Lesson # 1
Title: Introduction to Cherokee Culture/Early Settlers Culture
Duration: 3 days
Learning Goals Based on
Standards:
Essential Questions:
S.8.1.1 2007
The American Revolution and Founding of the United States of America: 1754
to 1801. Identify major Native American Indian groups of eastern North
America and describe early conflict and cooperation with European settlers and
the influence the two cultures had on each other.
Example: Mohawk, Iroquois, Huron and Ottawa; French and Native
American Indian alliances; French and Indian War; British alliances with
Native American Indians; settler encroachment on Native American Indian
lands; and Native American Indian participation in the Revolutionary War
To what extent did the impact of these two groups have on people, history
and geography?
How did perspectives of Native Americans and European settlers influence
cooperation, conflict, and interdependence?
How are events and people connected to each other?
Students will Know:
What the word culture means.
Describe different aspect of
culture.
The geographic area and features
where the Cherokee people live.
Students will Understand:
The similarities and differences
between the Cherokee culture
and the culture of early setters
coming across the Appalachian
mountains
Students will Do:
Watch film clips of
the Cherokee
Principle People and
the The Over
Mountain People
Journal Entries over
film clips
Map activity
Exit Tickets
Assessment: How will students Journal entries and exit tickets
demonstrate the desired
understandings? (Performance
tasks, quizzes, tests, journals,
homework, observations, etc.)
How
will understanding be judged?
Instructional
Activities/Sequence:
Day 1- Discuss what culture is and what makes up someones
culture then watch the film clip the Cherokee-Principle People
Journal entry about what was presented in the film clip and
students write what they think and feel.
Day 2- Students complete a map activity of where the Cherokee
lived and where settlers were moving too. watch film clip of The
Over Mountain People
Journal entry about what was presented in the film clip and
students write what they think and feel.
Day 3-Students complete a Venn Diagram in groups
Resources:
Films- Cherokee-Principle People and The Over Mountain People
Map of the south eastern United States
Venn Diagram