8/20-21 Monday-Tuesday

Guiding Question: 

What motivated European nations to settle in North America? 

Objectives:

Collaborative: Students will understand European Colonization by reading, completing a jigsaw chart and a travel poster with a score of at least 3/4 according to the rubric. 

Independent: Students will demonstrate their current literacy level by completing an iReady diagnostic to the best of their ability. 

Standards:

HSS.8.1 - Understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation 

CCRA.R.1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

How would you react if one day someone who spoke a language you had never heard before & looked like no one you had ever met showed up to your house? 

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 10 minutes: 

- Introduction to European Colonization

Independent (Voice Level 0) 40 minutes: 

- Continue your iReady diagnostic test, your username and password is the same as your alliance account, but without the "@students.laalliance.org" at the end. 

Early Finisher?: Work on your homework assignment in google classroom, read silently, complete homework for another class. 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5) 40 minutes:

- European Colonization Jigsaw 

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

In at least three sentences, summarize how England, France, and Spain's colonies were different. 

Homework: 

European Colonization Webquest in Google Classroom. This is due by Friday at 11:59 p.m.