friday, august 31 1.turn in your homework (put on my desk) 2.turn in your parent letter on my desk...

Friday, August 31

1. Turn in your homework (put on my desk)

2. Turn in your parent letter on my desk if you did not yesterday.

3. Update Table of Contents

Date Title Entry #

8/27 First Day of School Notes 1

8/27 Off the Wall Scavenger Hunt 2

8/29 European Exploration and Colonization timeline 3

8/30 America Before Columbus movie 4

8/31 Motives for Exploration wksheet/notes 5

3. Turn to entry #4 (the movie from yesterday) in your spiral

Early Explorers

Why would people leave home to explore?

Top 7 Reasons People Explored

• 1. Curiosity

• (Wondering what’s out there)

Top 7 Reasons People Explored

• 2. Wealth

• ($ $ $ $ $)

Top 7 Reasons People Explored

• 3. Fame

• (becoming well known and popular for discovering a new place

Top 7 Reasons People Explored

• 4. National Pride

• Make their country more popular, bigger or more famous.

Top 7 Reasons People Explored

• 5. Religion

• Explorers wanted to spread their religion around the world.

Top 7 Reasons People Explored

• 6. Foreign goods

• Something that your own country doesn’t have that you could sell.

Top 7 Reason People Explored

• 7. Faster cheaper trade routes

• For example: Northwest Passage – a faster way to get to Asia

Exploration Quiz

1. When you finish raise your hand and I will come and get it

2. Turn to entry #3 (the timeline) and illustrate 3 of the dates.

European Exploration and Colonization

1497

Cabot searches for the Northwest Passage

1521

Cortez conquers Mx 1565

Spanish found St. Augustine

1609

Hudson searches for the Northwest Passage

1585

First English colony settled at Roanoke

1607

Jamestown founded 1620

Pilgrims landed at Plymouth

1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

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