Lesson Plans 9.23.14

Essential Questions:

1. How did increasing political, economic, and cultural changes within the “Atlantic World” impact the development of colonial societies in North America?
2. How were the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment shaped by the “Atlantic World,” and how did these movements shape 18th-century British North American colonial society and subsequent American society?
3. How successfully did Great Britain implement its mercantilist doctrine?

Introductory Activity

1. Students collaboratively define the concept of Anglicization and analyze various components of it and the factors behind its acceleration during this period.

Writing

1. Write a two-paragraph essay in response to the following prompt
1. You are a colonist living in Maryland in 1754.  You see British influence everywhere, even though many settlers, especially in Pennsylvania and Delaware, are from countries other than England.  Write two paragraphs to a friend in England, one explaining which factor was most responsible for this Anglicization and why; and the other describing at least one political, one economic, and one cultural similarity between the colonies and England.

Homework:

Read

• A People and a Nation: A History of the United States : Chapter 4 continued…
• “The Transformation of European Society”, Gary B. Nash pages 56-58 (in your online folder)
• “George Whitefield Fascinates Franklin (1739) and Jonathan Edwards Paints the Horrors of Hell (1741)”, American Spirit Volume 1 (in your online folder)