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Unit of Instruction
Learning Target
I can gather a variety
of primary and
secondary sources
related to questions.
I can locate, identify
and describe major
physical features in
Minnesota.
I can explain the
relationship among
the three branches of
government: making
laws by the legislative
branch, implementing
and enforcing laws by
the executive branch,
and interpreting laws
by the judicial
branch.
Locate, identify and
describe major
physical features in
Minnesota; explain
how physical features
and the location of
resources affect
settlement patterns
Resource/Text
Section/Packet
Pages
Text book chapter 2,
video “Minnesota a
History of the
Land”(DVD)
Text book chapters 2
and 5.
Minnesota State
Government Folderssections 1,2,3,6,7,8,9
Learning Activities
Assessment
Learning the use of artifacts and
other items by archaeologist.
Chapter 2 Test
Identify and locate Lake Itasca and
Bryan Site. Looking at locations of
tribes and trading posts
Mapping activity
Sheets that have informational text
short fill in the blank
worksheets
School House Rock “I am Just A Bill”
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 6 Text
book(formation of
Treaties)
Chapter 10
Importance of the River to shipping
along with the flat prarie and the
train.
Forest for the resources to build and
heat
Chapter 10 test
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and the growth of
cities in different
parts of Minnesota
I can explain how
physical features and
the location of
resources affect
settlement patterns
and the growth of
cities in different
parts of Minnesota.
I can explain the role
that the development
of human capital
plays in determining
one's income.
I can compare and
contrast the Dakota
and Anishinaabe
nations prior to 1800.
I can describe their
interactions with each
other and other
indigenous peoples.
I can understand that
the United States
establishes and
maintains
Chapter 10
Importance of the River to shipping
along with the flat prarie and the
train.
Forest for the resources to build and
heat
Chapter 10 test
Chapter 3 wsht
pgs.18-19
Chapter4 wsht pgs.
29-30
Read about Dakota elders teaching.
Practicing of there skills
Chapter 3 and 4 test
Chapter 3 wsht
pgs.18-19
Chapter4 wsht pgs.
29-30
Chapter 3 wsht
pgs.18-19
Chapter4 wsht pgs.
29-30 Chapter 5 wsht
pgs.40-41
video “Minnesota a
History of the
Land”(DVD)
Group presentation, Chapter tests,
Reviews
Chapter 3 and 4 test
Fur trade posts, intermarriages,
Trade routes throughout the world
Chapter 5 test
Chapter 6 wsht pgs. 5253
Chapter 6 wsht pg 54
Perspective Poem pg 58 to
understand the views of both the
settler and the Native American.
Mapping lands ceded during the
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 6 Vocab
Terms
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relationships and
interacts with
indigenous nations
and other sovereign
nations, and plays a
key role in world
affairs.
I can understand that
the economic
expansion and the
conquest of the
indigenous and
Mexican Territory
spurred the
agricultural and
industrial growth of
the United states; led
to increasing regional
and economic and
ethic divisions and
inspired multiple
reform and
movements.
I can explain regional
tensions around
economic
development, slavery,
territorial expansion
and governance
many treaties made by the
government to gains the Minnesota
lands
Chapter 6 wsht pgs
52-53
Chapter 7 wsht pgs
63-64
Chapter 6&7
Vocabulary lists
Immigration and
recruitment of settlers
to drive the
population.
Chapter 9 wsht pgs
86-87
Chapter 9 Vocabulary
List
I can explain reasons
Creation of a poster which recruits
people to come through the use of
images and description.
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 7 Test
Understanding of why people want to
be a Territory and then a State. The
process of both and the steps for
them.
Chapter 6 Vocab.
Chapter 7 Vocab.
Prestation by Guest speaker “Bill
Bolin”
Chapter 9 Test
Chapter 9 Vocab.
To help with the different
perspectives of how things were for
the settlers and the Dakota.
Discussion of the
causes of the U.S.Dakota War of 1862.
Explanation of why
better to be a state as
opposed to a
territory.
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resulted in a civil war
and a
period of
Reconstruction that
led to the
abolition of slavery, a
more powerful federal
government, a
renewed push into
indigenous nations’
territory and
continuing
conflict over racial
relations. (Civil War
and
Reconstruction: 18501877)
As the United States
shifted from its
agrarian roots into an
industrial and global
power, the rise of big
business,
urbanization
and immigration led
to institutionalized
racism, ethnic and
class conflict and new
efforts at reform.
(Development of an
industrial United
States: 1870-1920)
for the United StatesDakota Warof 1862.
Chapter 10 wsht pgs
97-98.
Chapter 10 Vocab list.
Chapter 11 wsht
pgs.109-110&113-114
Chapter 11 Vocab list
Development of a business from the
late 1800’s to the early 1900’s
With the understanding of the
importance of the railroad to the
State as a whole.
Chapter 10 and 11
tests with
corresponding
vocabulary test.
Presentation of
created business to
explain the
importance of
industry to the state
of Minnesota.
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Post-World War II
United States was
shaped by an
economic boom, Cold
War
military engagements,
politics and protests,
and rights movements
to improve the status
of racial minorities,
women and America’s
indigenous peoples.
(Post-World War II
United States: 19451989)
Chapter 17 wsht 185186
Chapter 17 Vocab list
Video on the “Duck and Cover”
Chapter 17 test
Along with :
Chapter 17 Vocab
http://www.daisyalliance.org/effects- test
of-wmds.html Web site.
Key Words
Kinship
Human Capital
Wigwam
Alliance
Sovereign
profit
Pelt
Voyageur
Westward Expansion
Ratify
Annuity
assimilation
Immigrant
Recruiter
Federalism
Emancipation Proclamation
Secede
Agency
Traditional Dakota
Farm Dakota
Internment Camp
Exile
Subsistence Farmer
Homestead Act
Diversified Farming
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Grange
Cooperative
Regulate
Industrialization
Industrialist
Bushel
Allies
Propaganda
Patriotism
War bond
Axis Powers
Allies
Rationing
Victory Garden
Draft
Communism
Capitalism
Cold War