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Skills for Student Achievement |
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Performance Standards Addressed |
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September |
Age of Discovery The Americas Map Lessons Development of Civilizations Indians of North America |
· Identify North and South America · List major explorers of the new world · Identify the Inca,Mayen and Aztec civilization ·
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· Homework (workbook) · Map lessons · Quizzes · Chapter tests · Map Charts and Graph workbook |
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October |
· Europe discovers Asia · Europeans come to America · Famous Explorers · Vikings · Reading a compass |
· Identify land and sea routs to Asia and Far East · Identify Leaf and Red Erickson · Identify a compass rose · Know the major explorers of North America |
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November |
· Jamestown founded 1607 · First African arrive · Pilgrims and Thanksgiving · William Penn · Ben Franklin and Philadelphia · Mapping the Earth |
· Identify the major colonies in North America · Identify the hardships of the first colonies · Identify the importance of religion in colonial development |
· Homework · Board work · Quizzes · Chapter test · Map Work ·
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December |
· Founding the Southern Colonies · Tobacco its Importance · Mapping Europe |
· Identify the Southern Colonies · Name the five major southern crops · Identify Longitude and latitude lines ·
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· Homework · Board work · Quizzes · Chapter test · Map Work |
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January |
· Colonies become a nation · The founding fathers · George Washington · Declaration of Independence · Map scale and distance |
Identify the outcome of the French and Indian Wars Identify the complaints of the colonies against England Identify the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party Identify Valley Forge and the British defeat at Yorktown Landform and relief maps · |
· Homework · Board work · Quizzes · Chapter test · Map Work |
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February |
· Building an country · New Government · Constitution · Bill of Rights · Elevation and Contour maps ·
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· Compare the new and old government of U.S. · Review all 27 Amendments to the Constution Homework · ·
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· Homework · Board work · Quizzes · Chapter test · Map Work |
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March |
· Growing Nation · Westward Expansion · War of 1812 · Comparing maps · Highway maps · Transportation · Oregon Trail |
· Identify Daniel Boone and Kentucky · Understand Louisiana Purchase Louis and Clark expedition · Identify Trail of tears · Understand Remember the Alamo · Identify California gold rush of 49 ·
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May |
· Compromise of 1850 · Uncle Tom’s Cabin · Abraham Lincoln · Civil War · Assignation · Reconstruction · Bar Graphs and Charts |
· Identify the attempts to keep the U.S. one nation · Identify the problems of slavery · Understand Gettysburg · Rebuilding the United States · Identify population from a bar graph |
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