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Program info
Year One: Colonization, Settlement, and Communities
(Academic Year)
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The establishment of the original Thirteen Colonies will be the focus of year one. Daily life, new ideas, and the creation of an American Identity will emerge through our examination.
Some of the Inquiry Questions to be addressed will include:
- What was daily life like in colonial America for yeoman farmers, merchants, artisans, planters, indentured servants, slaves and Native Americans?
What roles did women play in colonial economies?
How did Spanish colonization differ from English colonization?
How did ideas about individual rights, popular sovereignty and law develop in different part of the British, Spanish, Dutch and French colonies?
What were the roles of private property, communal landholding, the fur trade, the Protestant “work ethic,” the plantation system, merchants, small farmers, indentured servants and slaves in the economies that arose in the English colonies?
What kinds of relationships, alliances and conflicts developed among Native American societies, European countries and settlers?
What were the causes and results of the French and Indian War?
YEAR ONE SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND READINGS
OCTOBER 12: THE POWER OF STORYTELLING
- Orientation to the Program, Teacher Responsibilities, TAH Responsibilities
- The Power of Storytelling
- Introduction to Digital Storytelling
NOVEMBER 9: AMERICA BEFORE THE EUROPEANS
- Reading: Colin Galloway, The World Turned Upside Down
- Hands On: Primary Sources and Digital Storytelling
JANUARY 18: SPANISH COLONIZATION
- Reading: David J. Weber, What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
- Hands On: Primary Sources and Digital Storytelling
FEBRUARY 22: NOTHERN EUROPEAN COLONIZATION
- Reading: Gary Nash, Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early North America
- Hands On: Primary Sources and Digital Storytelling
APRIL 12: SLAVERY IN THE COLONIES
- Reading: Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First 200 Years of Slavery
- Hands On: Primary Sources and Digital Storytelling
MAY 17: SOCIETY IN EARLY COLONIAL AMERICA TO 1760
- Reading: Jon Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776
- Hands On: Presentation of 1 – 2 minute digital storytelling lesson
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