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