Tuesday, February 5th

Began our first history unit today! Here was the agenda

• Reviewed the Big Geo Test - students did well!
• Introduced Pre-Columbian America - asked what it meant/referred to - discussion
• Used a 2 sided map (one side modern US/other side N. America circa 1500 with tribes) to show what happened after the voyage of 1492. Everything began to change - slowly but it changed!
• Using Google Docs - groups began to brainstorm what they know about Native Americans/American Indians - you can probably guess what they had to say......not much, stereotypical, etc...
• Ended with a discussion about the google doc and then 4 stories. Each story was about an encounter that either an explorer or an American had for the first time with at group of Native people. Some went well - some did not.