Age of Exploration

What is going on in Unit 10!

     In this unit we will be looking at the Age of Exploration, with a specific concentration on the conquest of the Americas. In this unit we will have a test as well as be doing many projects in and out of class. There will be a news paper assignment in which you'll be reporting on the conquest of the Americas as well as the earliest colonies in the Americas. In addition, we will be doing the Spice Trade report. In this exercise students will be doing a presentation on a spice that the explorers sought after during the Age of Exploration and then bringing in a food that contains that spice. For those students that haven't done a Portfolio Presentation this will be the last opportunity. The Portfolio for this Unit is to work in a group and create a board game on one of the assigned chapters in this unit. All the rubrics for all this exercises are listed below. There is a Tutorial link on Day 8 for additional help studying for the test. Standards being assessed in this unit are: 6.4.12, 7.1.12, 7.2.12, 7.3.12B, 8.1.12.B, 8.4.12.C, 8.4.12.D.

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Map Lesson #26 “The World During the Age of Discovery.”
Reviewed Guided Reading and Review sec 1.
Discussion:  Spice trade and explorations and geography of Africa using map and page 376 in text.
Assigned Skits on Slave Trade Due day 7
Assign Portfolio: The Spice Trade Due Last Day of Unit 
Journals are optional for extra credit for this unit
 

Discussion:  reasons for European empires in Asia.
Reviewed Guided Reading and Review sec 2  
Assignment: Read Chapter 15 sections 3 & 4 pages 382-389.
 

Read and answered questions on from the sheet the Unusual Dinner Party
Students assume the role of reporters and prepare questions for East Asian leaders.        
Assigned groups to either ch 15 or 16 for the Educational Board Game

Assignment:Read ch 16 sec 1 and 2
 

Discussed the reasons for European success in the New World and discussed the blending of culture in Spanish control America
Create a Front page to a newspaper hanout Old World Meets the New
Create a list of injustices in the new world by the Spanish and Portuguese
 

Activity: Map Lesson #27 “Claims in the Americas, 1700.”
Looked at hanout "A Massacre in the Temple of Tenochtitlan"
Worked on Game
Assignment:  Read Chapter 16 section 3 pages 401-405
 

Worked on and discussed Guided Reading and Review ch 16 sec 3
Created a chart on the English and French settlements in the New World
Discussion of English-French rivalry in the New World.
Read and discussed "Two Views of the Treatment of Indians"  
Assignment:  Read Chapter 16 sections 4 & 5 pages 405-415 and Guided Reading & Review sec 5
 

Skits on Slave Trade
Work on Game.
Assignment:  Read Page 1005 in ‘99 edition of textbook.  Handout
 

Video:  Newscast From the Past 10/23/1642 (14 minutes)
Game Playing: One person stays with his game, all others rotate as group to play the other games.
Review for Test.
Portfolio Presentations