Peggy Brett

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Weekly Overview:

Unit Description:

Urban Migration and Migration West (1865-1930)

Essential Questions:

1. What conditions lured people to migrate to the West?
2. Where did the western settlers come from?
3. How did the American frontier shift westward?
4. What caused changes in the life of the Plains Indians?
5. How did government policies and battlefield challenges affect the Indian Wars?
6. What changes occurred in federal Indian policies by 1900 as an attempt to change Native American culture?
7. What was life like on the Western frontier?
8. How did new technology help settlers overcome barriers in farming the plains?

Resources/Materials:

1. text
2. Guaranteed Curriculum – American History & World Geography
3. Geography in American History Activity Book – America’s Story – Houghton Mifflin Co.

Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs:H-1B-H7 #22, H-1B-H7 #24, G-1A-H1 #1, 9,10,11, G-1B-H2 #12,#25, G-1B-H3 #14, G-1C-H4 #32

Objectives:

1. Describe early changes in lifestyle of the Plains Indians.
2. To explain how American expansion into the West led to the near destruction of Native American societies.
3. Describe major federal assimilation policies and battlefield challenges that affected the Indian Wars.
4. Learn about changes that occurred in federal Indian policies by 1900.
5. Explain how mining, ranching and farming developed into major industries, transforming the West.
6. Describe the impact of new technologies on the settling of the West.

Student Learning Activities:

1. Using a question/answer sheets that students worked on Friday, the class will complete a graphic organizer.
2. Class discussion on Native American assimilation and the opening of Indian Territory.

1. Split-page key terms p. 268
2. Graphic organizer – Western Settlement – Miners, Ranchers, Farmers.
3. Class discussion – Wild West – Fact or Fiction?

1. Review for test – Chapter 7, Sec. 1-3.

Chapter 7 Test

Homework:

Study graphic organizers, class notes and vocabulary for a test on Friday.

Study

Study

Assessments:graphic organizers, class discussion, test

What strategies will I use to address literacy this week? Graphic organizer- policy v. results, Guided Reading Activity, and split page for key terms