Friday, September 30, 2016

Lesson on Friday, September 30th, 2016

Aim: How were Native Americans affected by Westward Expansion?

Bell Ringer: Handout 2.1 (Chapter 2, Lesson 1)

Objectives:
1.Students will analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to the challenges in the mid to late 1800s.

Agenda:
1.Bell Ringer (20 min)
2.Journal 20 – Choose one of the following questions: (10 min)
a. What factors helped to encourage settlement of the Great Plains?
b. What factors caused conflicts between new settlers to the West and Native Americans?
c. What were the consequences of the Dawes Act?
3.Discussion: P. 88 'Extended-Response Question’: If you were a settler moving to a new community in the Great Plains, would you stay and make a new life for yourself or would you leave? Write a descriptive essay that supports the reasons for your decision. Use vocabulary words: Vigilance committee, hydraulic mining, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Homestead Act of 1862, Transcontinental Railroad, Mining booms, assimilate, relocate. (10 min) Students are to write their decision and then discuss. Grade will be based on their excerpt and discussion participation.

4.Exit Ticket: Use question #3 with vocabulary words highlighted or underlined. Exit Ticket will count as a quiz grade.
5.Submit 'Westward Expansion Timeline'


Home Learning: Complete Journals 1-20 / EOC packet pages 4-6 will be graded. 

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