Lesson Plans 9.25.14

*These lesson plans should have been completed yesterday.
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?

Research

1. Students research  to generate a list of accomplishments and characteristics of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment and categorize the statements.

Philosophical Chairs Prompt/Rules

1. Prompt:
1. Did the Great Awakening or the Enlightenment have a greater impact on the 18th century Atlantic Worlds and American society from the 18th century to the present?
2. Rules:
1. Decide which section you will sit in
2. Listen carefully when others speak and seek to understand their arguments even if you don’t agree
3. Wait for the mediator (Ms. Niles) to recognize you before you speak; only one person speaks at a time
4. You must first summarize briefly the previous speaker’s argument before you make your response
5. If you have spoken for your side, you must wait until three other people on your side speak before you speak again
6. Be sure that when you speak, you address the ideas, not the person stating them
7. Keep an open mind, and move to the other side or the undecided section if you feel that someone made a good argument or your opinion is swayed
8. Support the mediator (Ms. Niles) by maintaining order and helping the discussion to progress

Discuss

1. Principles of mercantilism
2. Trade routes
3. Provisions of the Navigation Acts, the Woolen Act, the Hat Act and the Iron Act
4. Evaluate the benefits and burdens of mercantilism from the colonists POV

Homework:

Read

• A People and a Nation: A History of the United States : Chapter 4 continued…
• “Virginia Resents Restrictions (1671)”, American Spirit Volume 1 (in your online folder)

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?

Analyze

1. Analyze the quotation from 1765 to discuss the benefits or burdens of mercantilism from the perspective of the colonists.

“A colonist cannot make a button, a horseshoe, nor a hobnail, but some snooty ironmonger or respectable button maker of Britain shall bawl and squall that his honor’s worship is most egregiously maltreated, injured, cheated and robbed by the rascally American republicans.”

Study

• Units 1 & 2 Test tomorrow :)

Homework

Review Readings