Lesson Plans 9.22.14

Essential Question

How did continuing contact between Europeans and Native Americans (including wars with Native American tribes) affect European-colonial relationships and the cultures of each group?

Groups

1. In small groups, students use graphic organizers to research and then share finding about five wars between colonists and Native Americans
1. Pueblo Revolt
2. Beaver Wars
3. Pequot War
4. Chickasaw War
5. King Philip’s War

Reading

1. “A Rhode Island Quaker Sympathizes with the Indians (1675)”
1. Examine cultural changes that impacted both groups
2. Individually rank wars (1 being the war with the greatest impact on cultural change and relationships between Native Americans and colonists, and 5 being the war that had the least impact.)

Discuss

1. Students provide at least one piece of relevant historical evidence to support their conclusions and state whether the impact of cultural change increased or lessened over time.

Homework:

Read A People and a Nation: A History of the United States : Chapter 4