Month/ Week
Lesson/ Topics
Content
Skills
early humans; migration to the Americas Diversity of Native American cultures along Eastern Coast; interactions among tribes
Maps Timelines
September/ Week 3
The First Americans
Native American Cultures along the East Coast of North America circa 1400 AD
Maps Primary Sources
September/ Week 4
Europe in the Early Modern Age
Maps The Magna Carta
October/ Week 2
Authority to Rule
European Exploration of the Americas
Maps Timelines
October/ Week 4
1492-1600s
Primary Sources: Charters Maps
What is a charter? Authority to claim territory
November/ Week 2
1600s
Protestant Reformation: Church and State
Graphic Organizers Timelines
November/ Week 4
1485-1700s
The Mayflower Compact Maps
December/ Week 2
The Mayflower
1620
Colonies as a Profit Center
January/ Week 2
1600s-1700s
Economic charts
The French Indian War (1754-1763)
Maps Timelines
January./ Week 4 Competition for Colonies
Taxes and Laws, The Stamp Act; Civil Unrest
Timelines Taxation Charts
February/ Week 2
Control and Cost
1700s Enlightenment Thinkers
Inequality; laws and human rights
February/ Week 4
Authority to Govern
The Townshend Acts (1767) The Boston Massacre (1770); The Boston Tea Party (1773) The Intolerable Acts (1774)
imports, duties, taxation without representation
March/ Week 2
Command and Control
Civil Disobedience and Martial Law
March/ Week 4
primary sources
Timelines Taxation Charts
April/ Week 4
The Empire Strikes Back
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