We are learning about the colonization of North America, starting with NC.

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Day/Date	Learning Objective	Essential Questions	What did we do in class?	Homework	Downloads/Links
Monday, May 14	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	How and why did England attempt to colonize the area that would become NC?	We finish our RAFT assignments today and begin looking at Raleigh's second trip to the NC area.  This one is to build a colony under the leadership of Ralph Lane-not such a good idea.		The Lane Expedition
Tuesday, May 22			No Social Studies today due to testing.
Wednesday, May 23	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	How and why did England attempt to colonize the area that would become NC?	Raleigh gets one more try to build a colony in the New World.  He chooses John White to lead things up this time.  Did it work out?  Read from the NC History book to find out.		The John White Expedition
Thursday, May 24
Friday, May 25

Day/Date	Learning Objective	Essential Questions	What did we do in class?	Homework	Downloads/Links
Monday, May 14	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	Why did Europeans begin exploring?	Today, we'll be looking at the five W's of European exploration:  who, what, when, where, and why.
Tuesday, May 15			No Social Studies today due to 8th grade Science testing and the schedule changes.
Wednesday, May 16	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).		We do our last bit of explorer review and completely change gears to colonization on North America.
Thursday, May 17	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).		Today, we finish our explorer puzzle and begin looking at England's attempts at putting a colony on the Outer Banks of NC.
Friday, May 18	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).		Sir Walter Raleigh wanted to put a colony in NC.  How'd that work out for him.  Today, we find out.  We'll view a powerpoint about his initial attempts and then, pretend we're reporters sharing the news.		Amadas and Barlowe

Day/Date	Learning Objective	Essential Questions	What did we do in class?	Homework	Downloads/Links
Monday, May 7	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	How did European powers begin exploring North and South America?	Today, we're reading about the history of Europe and how their turned their interest to the exploration of North and South America.  We're reading from the US history book and answering several questions.
Tuesday, May 8	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	Who began exploring the New World for Europe and why did they go?	We took time today to finish yesterday's reading assignment.  We'll go over it tomorrow at the beginning of class.
Wednesday, May 9	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	Who began exploring the New World for Europe and why did they go?	We begin looking at individuals who began exploring the New World.  We'll look at who sent them, and why they went.  We'll take this information and construct a data table to organize it.		Explorers
Thursday, May 10	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	Who began exploring the New World for Europe and why did they go?	We complete the first half of our explorers list and go over it today.  We add 11 explorers to that one to bring to total to 20.
Friday, May 11	7.H.2.1 Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).	Who began exploring the New World for Europe and why did they go?	We completed our explorers list and played a review game to see if we had them all.  Did you win any smarties?

Day/Date	Learning Objective	Essential Questions	What did we do in class?	Homework	Downloads/Links
Monday, Apr 30		How did native groups live in North America?	We have to finish our vocabulary puzzles from Friday. We will focus on the native groups of North America.  We divide them into four cultural/geographic groups and create a table to organize the information.  We'll be using the 8th graders' NC book for this task.		The First People of North America
Tuesday, May 1		How did native groups live in North America?	We didn't get enough time on the North American Culture Groups chart.  We'll come in and get right to work on it on Tuesday.
Wednesday, May 2		How did native groups live in North Carolina?	We share information from the charts we made on the different native groups of North America.  Next, we'll read about NC's native groups and create a Venn diagram about their similarities and differences.		Natives in NC
Thursday, May 3		How did native groups live in North Carolina?	We didn't have time to get there yesterday, so we're finishing our questions and Venn diagram today on the native groups of NC.  Use yesterday's link to download the assignment.
Friday, May 4	7.H.1 Use historical thinking to analyze various modern societies. 7.G.1 Understand how geography, demographic trends, and environmental conditions shape modern societies and regions.		Today is our open-notebook quiz on the early societies that we have been studying.  Hope you notebook is in order.

On-line Textbook:

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