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I am pleased to inform you that we are going to learn about the thirteen original colonies this week. Everything that you need to know for each of the assignments this week along with the actual assignments you are able to find on this page. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. :) I hope that you are just as excited for this week of historical events as I am!

- Ms. Kolacia

Introduction to the Thirteen Colonies: We will go over and try to name all Thirteen Colonies and try to place them on a map in order from North to South. Each student will also have their own idividual map of the colonies that they will lable and we will use through out the week. We will also fill out a KWL chart as a class about the Thirteen Colonies we will make this chart together and I will use the Smartboard to display our chart for everyone to see. Each student should write down the KWL chart on their own sheet of paper because we will refer back to this at the end of the segment. In additon to the previous activites, we will explain what activities will be occuring the rest of the week. New England Colonies: Today we will go over the New England colonies we will start by identifying them on our map and coloring in all the New England colonies one color of your choice. We will be in the library for this portion of the class. Then the class will break up in teams of four (I will have your teams picked out before hand.) Each team will have a differnet New England colony. We will use Kid Info to find all the information we need. Each group will need to make a brief PowerPoint with one slide containing a brief history of their colony, colonial life in their colony, and a page with brief facts including when it became a colony and who founded it and any other facts found that your group finds interesting that have not been previously stated. ** ﻿ ** Also, in the PowerPoint you must include a map or picture of your colony as well as at least two other pictures. Each memember of asigned a different task: history, colonial life, brief facts, and PowerPoint creator are a few examples how the tasks may be broken up equally within the groups. Middle Colonies: The first thing that we will do is color the middle colonies on our map with a different color than before. We will as a class will have a laptop cart in the class room and you will individually use Social Studies for Kids: Thirteen Colonies and click on each of the Middle colonies and make a Venn Diagram explaining those specific colonies. Each student will have a 8 1/2in x 11in paper to create their Venn Diagram on. Students may also use their textbook as well as the website given for today's assignment. Each student will turn in a Venn Diagram but they may work with others to assist on their project. Southern Colonies and Slavery: We will identify each Southern colony and color them into our map that we have been working with all week, using a different color. We will go over the major imports and exports of the southern colonies and how it shaped the lives of the colonists that lived there. We will do this together as a class with our History books in a lecture type formate. After this we will go over slavery in the colonies and how the south was its biggest player of all three subsections of the colonies. We will first watch the YouTube Video: //**The History of Slavery In America (part 1 of 3)**//, we will only watch from the beginning to 3:57 of the video. Following the video I will give a brief explination of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the conditions on the ships. As a class we will all get on the floor and reinact the way that the slave ships were 'packed' with the slaves from Africa, to demonstrate how close of couters they actually were in on their four to eight week journey across the Atlantic to the thirteen colonies. After this class demonstration we will have an open disscussion about how it may have felt to be a slave from being taken from your home to a new country where you were treated unfairly. media type="youtube" key="Jc1RbUxQv4E?fs=1" height="228" width="384"
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Events leading up to the Revolution: Today we will be in the Library again for 50 minutes to use the computers along side our history text books to individually create a timeline that represents the important events that lead to the start of the American Revoultion. We will be discussing the American Revolution in depth next week so this activity will be used as a introduction to the topic disscussed next week. Each student will be given a sheet of paper sized 6in.x24in. to create their timeline on. Students have the creative choice to make their time line visually any way they want as long as they have majority of the key events listed on their timeline. Students will end there timeline at the start of the Revolutionary War. We will go over these events and any the students might have missed during our review lesson Monday of next week. To create the timeline students may use the following websites along with their textbook as a helpful guide: Social Studies for Kids: A Timeline of the Revolutionary War Traitors, Seamstresses, and Generals: Voices of the American Revolution American Revolutionary War
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