Ken Burns The Civil War: Day 2

  EQ: What were the effects of the 1860 Presidential election?

Engage:

•  Vocabulary

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Election of 1860
3. Democratic Party
4. Republican Party
5. Abolitionist
6. Secession

Explore:

•  Ken Burns: The Civil War Secessionitis

Explain:

1. In 1860, which political party was split over the issue of slavery?
2. Why did some southerners support a movement for secession?
3. Why did South Carolina call for a convention after the 1860 election?
4. What was Abraham Lincoln’s initial political platform?

Extend: 

• PBS Ken Burns in the Classroom The Civil War site

Ken Burns The Civil War: Day 1

  EQ: How did sectionalism help lead to civil war?

 Engage:

•  Vocabulary

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. Bleeding Kansas
4. Dred Scott

Explore:

•  Ken Burns: The Civil War (Prime Video) 

Explain:

1. During the mid-19th century, southerners and northerners both had fears around slavery. What did many southerners fear? What did many northerners fear?
2. What threatened to upset the “delicate equilibrium of power”?
3. In the course of three months how many men died in Bleeding Kansas? How long did the events around Bleeding Kansas continue?
4. In 1857 the Supreme Court refused to free an enslaved person. What was his name? What was the reasoning?
5. At the end of the video, President Abraham Lincoln called the nation “A House Divided.” What did he mean by this?

Extend: 

• PBS Ken Burns in the Classroom The Civil War site

 

Map of Australia

   

EQ: What are some of the major landforms of Australia? 

Engage:

• Geography Now Australia

Explore:

• Topographic Map of Australia

Explain:

      Label the following on the map:

1. Indian Ocean
2. Southern Ocean
3. South Pacific Ocean
4. Tasmania
5. Great Sands Desert
6. Gibson Desert
7. Great Victorian Desert
8. Tanami Desert
9. Hamersley Range
10. Great Dividing Range
11. Flinders Ranges
12. Nullarbor Plain
13. Great Artesian Basin
14. Cape York Peninsula
15. Barkly Tableland

 Evaluate:

• Label and color the map of Australia

Sub-Saharan Africa: Foo

  EQ: What are some of the traditional foods found in South Africa?

Explore:

•  Gordon Ramsey: Uncharted Wilds of South Africa (Disney+)

Explain:

•  What are some traditional foods Gordon discovers on his trip?
• How are traditional foods cooked in South Africa?
• Would you like to eat some of the foods that are made in the show?

Evaluate:

Vocabulary:

• wetland
• cloud forest
• rural
• river basin
• tropical
• desert

Sub-Saharan Africa: Petra

  

EQ: What is the city of Petra?

Engage:

• How a Jordanian Princess is Saving the Ancient City of Petra (11:58) 60 Minutes Australia

Explore:

• Petra's Hidden Origin (45:00) Disney+

Explain:

• Who made Petra?
• Why was Petra abandoned?
• How has Petra remained unchanged for so long?
• When was Petra started?

Evaluate:

Australia: Outback House

EQ: What was life really like in Australia?

 

Engage: Vocabulary

• drought
• global warming
• seminomadic
• continent
• volcano
• vegetation
• Aborigine
• earthquake
• cyclone
• urbanization
• arid
• subsistence farming
• greenhouse effect
• indigenous
• deforestation

Explore:

• Outback House video

Explain:

• What was life like for ranchers?
• Who are the Aboriginal Australians?
• What are the resources of Australia
• How have the people adapted to varying climate and terrain?
• How has human activity damaged the environment in Australia?

 

Evaluate:

Sub Saharan Africa Map

  

 EQ: What countries inhabit the continent of Africa?

Engage:

• Africa Destination World (2:50) Nat Geo Kids

Explore:

• Map of Africa

Explain:

• What countries are in Africa?
• What capital cities are in the nations of Africa?
• What oceans surround Africa?

Evaluate:

• Draw and Label the continent of Africa
• Label all the nations in Africa
• Label all the capitals in the nations in Africa
• Label the Oceans around Africa
• Color the map

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:

• Lure of the West
• Endless Labor on the Farm
• Traders and Fortune Seekers
• Frontier House Part 1 video
• Rushing Toward Riches
• Claiming Native Tribal Lands
• A New Wave of Immigrants
• Texas Ranch House video
• The Mormon Trail to Salt Lake City
• Expanding Into the Southwest
• The Struggle for Freedom in the West
• Opportunities, Gender, and Challenges in the West
• Texas Ranch House Episode 2 video

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:

• Comparison Chart

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Iran

  

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

 Engage:

• Iran: Yesterday and Today Rick Steves
• Vocabulary

1. Arabic
2. Aramaic
3. Hebrew
4. Kurds
5. Berbers
6. Persians

Explore:

• Many Ethnicities and Languages
• Kurdistand: A Nation without a Country

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:

Cut Paper Presidential Portrait

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/painting-the-presidents/

EQ: Which President will you choose to make a portrait of?

Engage:

• Presidential Portraits

Explore:

•   Torn Paper Portrait

Explain:

•  Choose a President from 1824-1859 and look at their picture.

Evaluate:

• Create a torn paper portrait of your chosen President. 

Cities of the Underworld: Southeastern Turkey

  

 

EQ: What was found in Capodocia?

Engage:

• How does ground penetrating radar work?

Explore:

• Cities of the Underworld Secret Pagan Underground S1 Ep 5

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. 

People and Culture of Northwest Africa and Southwest Asia: Turkey

  

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

 Engage:

• Central Turkey Rick Steves (25:03)
• Expedition Unknown S2 Ep13 The Sultan's Heart (Disney+)

Explore:

• Regional Conflict
• Tensions within Islam

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:

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Palestine

  

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

Engage:

• Palestine Rick Steves

Explore:

• Christianity
• Islam

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

Presidents 1824-1849

 

EQ: Which of these Presidents faced the most challenges?

Engage:

• None 

Explore:

• The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: A Rocky Transition as America Grows (1824-1849) Apple TV
• Trail of Tears National Historic Trail National Park Service 

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:

• Worksheet

People of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Israel

  

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

Engage:

• The Best of Israel Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism

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 Day 5

 

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

Explore:

• Ken Burns The West Episode 3 on iTunes
• Gold Rush Game

Explain:

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

Evaluate:

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Egypt

 

Can you decode this hieroglyph? 

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

Engage:

• Decode the Hieroglyphs
• Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
• Hieroglyphic Typewriter

Explore:

• Egypt: Yesterday and Today Rick Steves (55:02)
• Geography Now Egypt
• Geography Now Difference Between Arab Countries

Explain:

• How has Egypt changed since World War II?
• How does Egypt's past influence their present?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves Worksheet
• Ancient Egypt Jeopardy Game 

Westward Expansion Day 4

 

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

 Game Day:

• Oregon Trail Game

Westward Expansion

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

 Engage:

• Oregon Trail Game
• Vocabulary

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:

•  Manifest Destiny
• The Oregon Country
• The Republic of Texas
• The Mexican American War
• The Southwest
• Trailblazers

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:

• Worksheet

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 2

   

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

Engage:

•   Americans Try Russian Holiday Food  (6:54)

Explore:

• Religious Life in Central Asia
• A Revival of Religion
• Food and Arts

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?

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

Evaluate:

Worksheet

7B Vocabulary Assessment

7C Vocabulary Assessment

7A Vocabulary Assessment

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 1

  

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

Engage:

•  Geography Now: Russian Republics (15:48)

Explore:

•  A Land of Diversity
• Soviet Russia
• A Crossroad of Culture

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

Challenges of Expansion

  

EQ: Did the benefits of expansion outweigh the costs?

Engage:

• Following the Frontier Line Interactive Map
•  Westward Expansion and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (2:39)

Explore:

•  Settling the Northwest
• The Union Grows
• New States in the Southeast
• Native American Resistance
• A System to Unify America
• A National Transportation System
• The American System

Explain:

• How did the Northwest Ordinance aid the expansion of the United States?
• Which Northern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• Which Southern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• How did Native Americans react to the early expansion?
• What was the American System?
• How did transportation improve?
• What economic measures supported the American System?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet
• Vocabulary

1. Land Ordinance of 1785
2. Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
3. Erie Canal
4. market revolution
5.  Gibbons v. Ogden
6. National Road
7. Adams-Onís Treaty  
8. pioneer 
9. McCulloch v. Maryland, 
10. Tariff of 1816 
11. meridian 
12. Treaty of Ghent

Russian Empire

                              

EQ: Why did the Russian Empire Fail?

Engage:

•  Review last lesson

Explore:

•  Engineering an Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire (44:52) HistoryVault

Explain:

• What was the nickname of Ivan III?
• When was Moscow founded?
• What empire did Russia borrow religion and architecture from?
• Who ruled over the Russians for three centuries until they were defeated by Ivan III?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

War of 1812

   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#/media/File:War_of_1812_Montage.jpg

EQ:

• What was the impact of the War of 1812 on early history of the United States?

Engage:

• 'The Impressment' picture. What is going on in this picture? What clues do you find?

Explore:

• Great Britain Angers the US
• Tecumseh and His Confederacy
• A Second War for Independence Begins
• War on Land and Sea
• An Era of Pride and Good Feelings
• The War of 1812 PBS (1:53:00)

Explain:

• What caused tensions between the US and Great Britain?
• What caused tensions between the US and Native Americans?
• What finally started the War of 1812?
• What were the major battles of the War of 1812?
• What were the results of the War of 1812?

Evaluate:

• Assessment in Lesson Book
• War of 1812 Scavenger Hunt
• Answer Key
• Map
• Vocabulary: 
• "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Battle of New Orleans
• Confederacy / Confederate States
• Battle of Tippecanoe
• Embargo Act
• Dolley Madison
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
• embargo
• Winfield Scott 
• Fort McHenry
• James Madison
• impressment
• Andrew Jackson
• Oliver Hazard Perry 
• Non-Intercourse Act
• War of 1812 
• Tenskwatawa
• Francis Scott Key
• Treaty of Ghent
• Tecumseh
• war hawk
• William Henry Harrison

Geography of Russia

   

EQ:

• How does geography effect life in Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

• Geography Now Russia (32:54)

Explore:

• Physical Features
• Political Map
• Climate
• Vegetation and Biomes

Explain:

• What are the major physical features of Russia and Central Asia?
• What countries make up Russia and Central Asia?
• What is the climate like in Russia and Central Asia?
• What is the natural vegetation like in Russia and Central Asia?

Evaluate:

• Map of Russia Checklist

Age of Jefferson: Day 6

 

EQ: How did the United States deal with the Barbary Pirates during Jefferson's Presidency?

Explore:

• Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean Digging for the Truth History Vault

Explain:

• Who are the Barbary Pirates
• What problems did they cause to the US?
• How did Jefferson deal with them?

Evaluate: 

• Class Discussion

EQ: How did the United States deal with the Barbary Pirates during Jefferson's Presidency?

Explore:

• Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean Digging for the Truth History Vault

Explain:

• Who are the Barbary Pirates
• What problems did they cause to the US?
• How did Jefferson deal with them?

Evaluate: 

• Class Discussion

EQ: How did the United States deal with the Barbary Pirates during Jefferson's Presidency?

Explore:

• Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean Digging for the Truth History Vault

Explain:

• Who are the Barbary Pirates
• What problems did they cause to the US?
• How did Jefferson deal with them?

Evaluate: 

• Class Discussion

European Union

   

EQ:

•  What is the European Union?

Engage:

•  The United Kingdom is Leaving the European Union (2:07) 
• Post-Brexit (2:58) March 2021

Explore:

• Europe: From World War 2 to the European Union (23:57) 2014
• European Union Map
• Joining the EU 
• Making Decisions for Many Countries

Explain

• What is the EU?
• What countries belong to the EU?
• How has the EU addressed political and economic challenges?

Evaluate:

• EU Timeline

Age of Jefferson: Day 4-5

   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore

By His Excellency the Right Honorable JOHN Earl of DUNMORE, His Majesty's Lieutenant and Governor General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same.

A PROCLAMATION

As I have ever entertained Hopes, that an Accommodation might have taken Place between GREAT-BRITAIN and this Colony, without being compelled by my Duty to this most disagreeable but now absolutely necessary Step, rendered so by a Body of armed Men unlawfully assembled, firing on His MAJESTY'S Tenders, and the formation of an Army, and that Army now on their March to attack his MAJESTY'S Troops and destroy the well disposed subjects of the Colony. To defeat such treasonable Purposes, and that all such Traitors, and their Abettors, may be brought to Justice, and that the Peace, and good Order of this Colony may be again restored, which the ordinary Course of the Civil Law is unable to effect; I have thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, hereby declaring, that until the aforesaid good Purpose can be obtained, I do in Virtue of the Power and Authority to ME given, by His MAJESTY, determine to execute Martial Law, and cause the same to be executed throughout this Colony: and to ****** the Peace and good Order may the sooner be restored, I do require every Person capable of bearing Arms, to resort to His MAJESTY'S STANDARD, or be looked upon as Traitors to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Government, and thereby become liable to the Penalty the Law inflicts upon such Offenses; such as forfeiture of Life, confiscation of Lands, &. &. And I do hereby further declare all indented Servants, Negroes, or others, (appertaining to Rebels,) free that are able and willing to bear Arms, they joining His MAJESTY'S Troops as soon as may be, foe the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper Sense of their Duty, to His MAJESTY'S Crown and Dignity. I do further order, and require, all His MAJESTY'S Liege Subjects, to retain their Quitrents, or any other Taxes due or that may become due, in their own Custody, till such a Time as Peace may be again restored to this at present most unhappy Country, or demanded of them for their former salutary Purposes, by Officers properly ***** to receive the same.

GIVEN under my Hand on board the Ship WILLIAM by Norfolk, the 7th Day of November in the SIXTEENTH Year of His MAJESTY'S Reign.
DUNMORE

(GOD save the KING.)

 During the battle of Yorktown Joseph Plum Martin experienced this:

During the siege, we saw in the woods herds of Negroes which lord Cornwallis, (after he had inveigled them from their proprietors,) in love and pity to them, had turned adrift, with no other recompense for their confidence in his humanity, than the small pox for their bounty and starvation and death for their wages. They might be seen scattered about in every direction, dead and dying, with pieces of ears of burnt Indian corn in the hands and mouths, even of those that were dead. After the siege was ended many of the owners of these deluded creatures, came to our camp and engaged some of our men to take them up, generally offering a guinea a head for them. 

(p. 174, Chapter 7 The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plum Martin)

EQ:

• To what extent did Jefferson's actions as President reflect his principles?

Explore:

• Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters (1:31:25)
• Foreign Affairs
• Lord Dunmore's Proclamation 
• The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier by Joseph Plum Martin

Explain:

• What ideals did Jefferson bring to the Presidency?
• How did American daily life change in the early 1800's?
• How did Jefferson deal with foreign affairs?
• What did Lord Dunmore's Proclamation do?
• Why were there runaway slaves around Yorktown during the battle?

Evaluate:

• Class Discussion Questions - We will choose questions to answer as a class before we start the video. 

The Age of Jefferson Day 3: The Lowell Girls

  

EQ:

• To what extent did Jefferson's actions as President reflect his principles?

Explore:

• Accomplished Explorers
• Changing Direction of the Country
• Life in the Early Republic
• Massachusetts Mill Workers, Lowell National Historic Park (6:31)
• Mill Times PBS (56:38)

Explain:

• What ideals did Jefferson bring to the Presidency?
• How did American daily life change in the early 1800's?
• How did Jefferson deal with foreign affairs?

Rick Steves Eastern Europe

  

EQ: What are some of the countries in Eastern Europe?

Explore:

• Rick Steves Poland, Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria

Explain:

• What are some of the cities RS visits in Eastern Europe
• What important sites does RS visit?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves' Worksheet
• Vocabulary  
• Day 1 taxes, debt, federation, feudalism, imperialism, denomination, Berlin Wall, propaganda, Greek Empire, legislative, democracy, federalism, welfare system, Roman Republic, 
• Day 2 constitution, parliamentary democracy government, judicial, Cold War, representative, supply and demand, command economy, parliament, Macedonian Empire, representative government, constitutional monarchy, 
• Day 3 European Economic Community (EEC), European Union (EU), executive, markets, Napoleonic Empire, Roman Empire, free trade, division of labor, commonwealth, citizen, commerce

Government and Geography of Europe

  

 EQ: What role do government and economic systems play in the lives of Europeans?

Engage:

• A Dividing Wall Comes Down

Explore:

• Rick Steves' Berlin (25:04)
• Postwar Europe
• Free Market VS Command Economy (2:33)
• The Beginning of the Cold War (11:05)
• The Marshall Plan (2:35)
• The Fall of USSR
• The Break up of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
• Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia and Serbia (4:00)

Explain:

• How did Europe change after the end of World War 2?
• What brought about the fall of the Soviet Union?
• How did ethnic tensions contribute to political change in Eastern Europe?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves' Worksheet

The Age of Jefferson Day 1

  

EQ:

• To what extent did Jefferson's actions as President reflect his principles?

Engage:

• Elbow Room (4:09)

Explore:

• Vocabulary: unconstitutional, judicial review, agrarian, Louisiana Purchase, Corps of Discovery
• Marbury vs Madison and Judicial Review
• Crash Course History Judicial Review (8:01)
• Eyes on the West
• Thomas Jefferson: The Louisiana Purchase and the Constitution Hip Hughes (4:39)
• Closing the Deal
• The Roots of Exploration
• The Journey West

Explain:

• What led to Marbury vs Madison and why was it important?
• How did trouble with Napoleon lead to a land deal?
• How did the Louisiana purchase become official?
• How did the Louis and Clarke expedition begin?

Evaluate:

• Answer Explain questions

Hamilton Versus Jefferson

   

EQ:

• How did the nation's early problems reveal different philosophies about government?

Engage: 

• Crash Course History: Where US Politics Came From(13:56)

Explore:

• The First US Political Parties
• Differing Views About Democracy
• Dealing With Debt
• Hamilton and Jefferson Debate the First Bank (10:14)
• The Business of America
• The Market Revolution (4:05) 
• The National Bank
• France vs Britain
• US Neutrality Violated
• John Adams Takes Office

Explain:

• Why did the first political parties form?
• How democratic was the new government?
• How did Hamilton deal with the nation's debt problem?
• What other economic measures did Hamilton offer?
• How did the national bank become a source of debate?
• How did political differences affect foreign policy?
• Why did the United States and Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty?
• How did party disagreements continue during the Adams presidency?

Evaluate:

• Assessment