Each chapter will address and answer an essential question.
Students will keep and interactive student notebook, participate in reenactments, discussions, and debates in order to gain a stronger understanding of our country's rich history!
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Topics Covered This Year
Geography of the United States-Essential Question: What can geography teach us about the United States?
American Indians and Their Land -Essential Question: How did American Indians adapt to different environments in North America?
American Indian Cultural Regions -Essential Question: How and why did American Indian cultural regions differ?
How and Why Europeans Came to the New World -Essential Question: What did explorers take to and from the New World during the Age of Exploration?
Routes of Exploration to the New World-Essential Question: How did exploration of the Americas lead to settlement?
Early English Settlements-Essential Question: What challenges faced the first English colonies?
Comparing the Colonies-Essential Question: How were the three colonial regions alike and different?
Facing Slavery-Essential Question: What was the impact of slavery on Africans?
Life in Colonial Williamsburg-Essential Question: What were key parts of life for Southern colonists in the 1700s?
Tensions Grow Between the Colonies and Great Britain-Essential Question: What British actions angered the colonists in the 1700s?
To Declare Independence or Not -Essential Question: What were the arguments for and against colonial independence from Great Britain?
The Declaration of Independence -Essential Question: What are the main ideas in the Declaration of Independence?
The American Revolution -Essential Question: How did the colonists win the American Revolution?
The Causes of the Civil War-Essential Question: What factors helped drive apart the North and the South in the mid-1800s?
The Civil War-Essential Question: What factors contributed to the outcome of the Civil War?