8/20-21 Tuesday-Wednesday

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 gain a better understanding of European Exploration by completing a webquest with at least 80% accuracy. 

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: 

- Go to Google Classroom and complete the European Exploration Webquest 

If you did not join Google Classroom for history last class, the codes are below: 

PERIOD 3 - Leon's "Harvard": jq64cu

PERIOD 5 - Paredes' CSUN: j5bm1ai

PERIOD 4 - Cobb's Yale: 0duep3d (That is the number ZERO not the letter "o")

PERIOD 6 - St. Regis' "Pepperdine": gjrsov

Early Finisher? Play this iCivics game, complete homework for another class, complete this choose your own adventure game, or read an Achieve article. 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5) 40 minutes:

- European Colonization Jigsaw 

Here is a Criteria for Success & Rubric for the poster assignment

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

On board 

Homework: 

None