Thursday, April 29, 2021

Cradle of the Gods Southeastern Turkey


 EQ: What was found at Goblekli Tepe?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • How old was the site?
  • What was the site?
  • Who found the site?
  • Where is the site?
  • When was the site found?
  • Why is the site important?

Evaluate:

  • Answer the 5 W's and H questions. 

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia Day 5

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?
  • How have ethnic differences led to conflict in the Kurdish regions of Southwest Asia?

Evaluate:

Monday, April 26, 2021

Life in the West





EQ: What was life really like in the west?

Engage: Vocabulary

  • forty-niners
  • vaquero
  • missionary
  • reservation
  • Mormons
  • Oregon Trail
  • Santa Fe Trail

Explore:

Explain:

  • What was life like for farmers?
  • What events attracted settlers to New Mexico and California
  • What was life like for a miner?
  • Why were Native Americans forced onto reservations?
  • Why did Asians immigrate to California?
  • Why did Mormons relocate?
  • Who were America's first cowboys?

 

Evaluate:

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Presidents 1824-1849




EQ: Which of these Presidents faced the most challenges?

Engage:

  • None 

Explore:

Explain:

  • Andrew Jackson easily won the popular vote. Why did he fail to win the presidency?
  • What was Jackson’s approach toward the Native population?

Evaluate:

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia Day 4

 

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • What are the cultural elements that unite North Africa and Southwest Asia?
  • How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?

Evaluate:

  • Vocabulary
  1. Mesopotamia
  2. Sinai Peninsula
  3. Silk Road
  4. Mansa Musa
  5. Nubia
  6. Babylon

Extend:

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Westward Expansion Day 5

EQ: How did the California Gold Rush impact the United States?

Explore:

  •  Ken Burns The West Episode 3 

Explain:

  • What impact did the Gold Rush have on westward movement?
  • Why is Kit Carson famous?
  • How did California secede from Mexico?

 

Westward Expansion Day 4

EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Game Day:

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia Day 3

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • How did Christianity become the world's largest religion?
  • How did Islam become the dominant religion in the region?

Evaluate:

  • Vocabulary
  1. Sahara
  2. Giza
  3. Black Sea
  4. Fertile Crescent
  5. Sumer

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia Day 2

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
  • How did Judaism begin?

Evaluate:

  • Vocabulary
  1. fertile
  2. Gaza Strip
  3. Nile River
  4. Dead Sea
  5. Golan Heights

Westward Expansion

 EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Engage:

  1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  2. Manifest Destiny
  3. forty-niners
  4. prospect
  5. empresario
  6. merchant,
  7. Gadsden Purchase
  8. abolition
  9. subsistence farming
  10. Santa Fe Trail
  11. California Gold Rush
  12. Oregon Territory
  13. Mormons
  14. Oregon Trail
  15. Donner Party

Explore:

Explain:

  • What was Manifest Destiny?
  • How did the US acquire the Oregon Territory?
  • How did the US acquire Texas?
  • What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
  • How did the US gain control of the Southwest?
  • Who were some of the famous explorers of the western US?

Evaluate:

Friday, April 09, 2021

Ken Burns The West Episode 2 Empire Upon the Trails


In this documentary we will learn about the discovery of Yellowstone, how Texas became a nation, the Mormon Trail, and the unfortunate Whitman Massacre.

EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 

Engage:

Explore:

  • Ken Burns The West Episode 2 iTunes 

Explain:

  • Who 'discovered' Yellowstone?
  • Why did the Republic of Texas secede from Mexico?
  • Why did the Mormons move to Utah?

Evaluate:

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia

 

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
  • How did Judaism begin?
  • How did Christianity become the world's largest religion?
  • How did Islam become the dominant religion in the region?
  • What are the roots of the conflict in Israel?
  • What conflicts exist within Islamic communities?
  • What are the cultural elements that unite North Africa and Southwest Asia?
  • How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?
  • How have ethnic differences led to conflict in the Kurdish regions of Southwest Asia?

Evaluate:

  • Vocabulary
  1. fertile
  2. Gaza Strip
  3. Nile River
  4. Dead Sea
  5. Golan Heights
  6. Sahara
  7. Giza
  8. Black Sea
  9. Fertile Crescent
  10. Sumer
  11. Mecca
  12. Tigris and Euphrates River
  13. Aswan Dam
  14. West Bank
  15. Mesopotamia
  16. Sinai Peninsula
  17. Silk Road
  18. Mansa Musa
  19. Nubia
  20. Babylon

Tuesday, April 06, 2021

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 2

EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  • What religious beliefs do the people of Russia and Central Asia have?
  • How has religious practices changed since the fall of the Soviet Union?
  • What food and arts are common in Russia and Central Asia?

Evaluate:

Vocabulary: 

  1. gulags
  2. Cold War
  3. atheism
  4. Warsaw Pact
  5. minority
  6. diversity
  7. pogroms
  8. Silk Road
  9. cultural diffusion
  10. persecution

Sunday, April 04, 2021

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 1



EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

Explore:

Explain:

  •  How did Russia's diverse population develop?
  • How did the Soviet Union impact life in Russia?
  • What influences shape modern Asia?

Evaluate:

Worksheet

Vocabulary: 

  1. architecture
  2. Tatars
  3. Slavic peoples
  4. mosque
  5. colonization
  6. Rus
  7. Mongols
  8. Arab Empire
  9. caravan
  10. steppe
  11. glasnost
  12. capitalism
  13. assembly
  14. autocracy
  15. authoritarian