FOURTH GRADE LITERARY ESSAY WRITING UNIT



5th Grade Social Studies: Unit 2a- Colonization of the Western Hemisphere

The Native People: Algonquin and Iroquois people | |

|SHORT TERM GOALS |LONG-TERM GOALS |

|Explain how Algonquin and Iroquois natives developed different cultures in response to the conditions of |Students will understand how economics, people and key events connected to shaping a nation. |

|their different environments. |Students will recognize that a great variety of Native cultures existed in North America at the time that |

|Explain how although the Algonquin and Iroquois considered warfare as a part of life, they were able to |the first Europeans reached this continent. |

|create a peace treaty that ended fighting among their people. |Explain the important role of religion in the way of life of the Iroquois and Algonquin people. |

|Describe the circumstances that led to the formation of the Iroquois League. |Demonstrate the relationship between natural resources of an area and the quality of life of the Algonquin|

| |and Iroquois who lived in that area. |

|DRIVING QUESTION W/REAL-WORLD RELEVANCE: |WEEKLY BENCHMARKS |

|How did the early civilizations of the Algonquin and Iroquois appreciate the value of living in harmony |The Algonquin and Iroquois played an important part in shaping our way of government |

|with nature? |The Algonquin and Iroquois played an important part in shaping our way of culture |

|How did the Iroquois culture influence the creation of the Western Civilizations? | |

|LANGUAGE: VOCABULARY and STRUCTURES |REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES |

|Tribe, great peace treaty, Algonquin: Montauk, Mohican, Delaware and Wappingers. Iroquois: Onondaga, |Visiting the museum of the American Indian |

|Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca and Cayuga, longhouse, wampum, sachem, culture, shaman, tree of great piece, league| |

|of five nations, gender role | |

|CULMINATING PROJECTS AND PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF LEARNING |INFORMAL ASSESSMENTS: |

|Diaroma, collage, poster, village model |Oral quizzes, class discussions, debates |

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|RESOURCES: trade books, New York State Elementary Social Studies Coach, Soaring Scores with DBQs |

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|The Native People: Algonquin and Iroquois People |

|Date | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY |

|WEEK 1: |T.P. The first people to live in what|T.P. The importance of the Iroquois |T.P. The Iroquois were known as the |T.P. The Iroquois and the Algonquin | |

| |is now New York State are native |league (confederacy-league of five |people of the longhouse. The longhouse|have made many contributions to | |

| |Americans. The Iroquois lived in |nations) |was the basic unit of the Iroquois |American society. | |

| |north and central New York and the | |culture. | | |

| |Algonquin lived along the Hudson | | | | |

| |Valley river. | | | | |

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