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: List the three topics that interest you the most in US History.
2. Guided Instruction: Notebook Organization
3. Independent Learning: North America Map Activity
4. Guided Instruction: New World Beginnings Organizer
5. Reflection Question: Summarize the Spanish, French, & English motives for exploration in the New World.

Homework: 1491 Reading

Tentative Test Date: September 15