Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the Spanish, French, and & English motives for exploration in the Americas, and I can describe the settlements established by each.

Critical Vocabulary: Christopher Columbus, Columbian Exchange, Conquistadors, "Gold, God, and Glory," Hernán Cortés, Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, Francisco Pizzaro, Inca Empire, New Spain, Encomienda System, St. Augustine, Pueblo Revolt, Jacques Cartier, Northwest Passage, Samuel de Champlain, Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, Cavelier La Salle, New France, New Orleans, Privateer, Sir Walter Raleigh, Roanoke, Jamestown, John Smith, John Rolfe, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, John Winthrop

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What was the Columbian Exchange? How did it impact European settlement of the New World?
2. Guided Instruction: New World Beginnings Organizer
3. Reflection Question: How did the French and English motives for exploration in the Americas differ from that of the Spanish? How did this impact their relationship with the Native Americans they encountered?

Homework: The English Colonies Reading