Bell Work: Please find your assigned seat on the seating chart on the back table and pick up a copy of the Bracketing Dates Pre-Quiz worksheet. Take the.

Wednesday, January 7th

Bell Work: Please find your assigned seat on the seating chart on the back table and pick up a copy of the Bracketing Dates Pre-Quiz worksheet. Take the first few minutes of class to copy down the EQ and complete the Bracketing Dates Pre-Quiz to the best of your ability.

Daily Agenda: January 7th

Bell Work: Bracketing Dates Pre-QuizDiscussion: A New Semester, A New CourseVocab Acquisition: 1.1 and 1.2 SFIsCritical Reading: 1491Summarizer: The Most Important Thing…

Essential Question: What factors distinguished Native American groups in 1491?

Homework: Finish worksheet for the article 1491 (be prepared to discuss the article in a Socratic Seminar tomorrow) and read Brinkley pgs. 2-18.

Welcome to AP U.S. History – Changes for this Semester

More In-Class Readings (Historical Thinking focus) and Socratic DiscussionMore Writing (essay on every test and at least one more per unit)Less written homework, more reading with accountabilityReview Quizzes Twice a WeekHigher Expectations, not harder workMore course review (approximately 6 weeks)

Focus for the semester:

Retention = completing assignmentsApplication = Knowing Facts

Partner Verb Review

Let’s take a few quick minutes to recall what we learned last semester. Each of you have been issued a card with a verb on it. Take a few minutes to think about what person or event you learned about last semester that you can relate to the term. Each of you will be asked to verbally share you conclusion with the class.

Is this what you imagine the Europeans discovered when arriving to the Americas?

Questions to Consider: Silently answer in your notebooks.1. What did North America look like prior to

1492? What would you see? What did the landscape and the people look like? What did they do? Were there any similarities between America and Europe?

2. Guess the populations of the following places in 1500: Paris, London, the British Isles, and France.

3. Now guess the population for North America as a whole, and the biggest city up to this time in North America.

Consider the Following:

Relative Populations in 1491:London – 50,000Paris – 200,000British Isles – 3 millionFrance – 16 million

North American population = c. 15 millionCentral America = 90-115 million people (1/5 of worlds total population and more than all of Europe combined)Cahokia = around 50,000 people

Why do we assume the continent was so sparsely populated?

Wanted to believe that it was unoccupied—less guilt.In the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died from disease.Disease killed as much as 90 percent of the people of coastal New England.

Consider the following European records about the Americas and note the dates:

1. Las Casas (1542): “it looked as if God has placed all of or the greater part of the entire human race in these countries.”2. Sebastián Vizcaíno (1602): “I have traveled more than eight hundred leagues along the coast and kept a record of all the people I encountered. The coast is populated by an endless number of Indians.”3. New England colonist (1630s): “And the bones and skulls upon the several places of their habitations made such a spectacle” that the Massachusetts woodlands “heavily urbanized populations were wiped out.”

Native American Culture:

“By 1000 A.D., trade relationships had covered the continent for more than a thousand years; mother-of-pearl from the Gulf of Mexico has been found in Manitoba, and Lake Superior copper in Louisiana.” The Native Americans inhabited a world in which, unlike Europeans, they expected to meet peoples different from themselves.

Pre-Columbian AmericaAs you read the assigned article, look carefully for the assertions of the author as he challenges some pre-conceived notions about life in the Americas prior to 1492. After identifying each assertion, note how the author supports his position in the text. After finishing the article, complete the back side of the worksheet in preparation of tomorrow’s Socratic Seminar.Note: This is a class set of the article, if you do not finish in class, you can find a digital copy on the “Handouts” page of the class wiki.

Exit Slip:Please complete The Most Important Thing summarizer on the back of your bracketing dates Pre-Quiz and turn it in to the homework bin before leaving.