COPY Fifth Grade Social Studies
Chapter 6: "The Middle Colonies"
Please note: The dates regarding homework and classwork are subject to change. Please check the website each day.
Please see the Homepage for a detailed explanation of procedures and expectations.
Social Studies Textbook: The United States: Making a New Nation. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Pages 222-249.
The Big Idea:
What to know:
Chapter 6: "The Middle Colonies"
Please note: The dates regarding homework and classwork are subject to change. Please check the website each day.
Please see the Homepage for a detailed explanation of procedures and expectations.
Social Studies Textbook: The United States: Making a New Nation. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Pages 222-249.
The Big Idea:
What to know:
RESOURCES
Videos:
Vocabulary and review questions:
Presentations:
Videos:
Vocabulary and review questions:
- Quizlet
Presentations:
- PowerPoint
- Prezi
Homework Due Thursday, October 30, 2014: None.
Classwork, Wednesday October 29, 2014:
Classwork, Wednesday October 29, 2014:
- Read page 225, collectively as a class. Students can read different passages out loud and following along as their classmates read.
- Explain to the students that the climate in the middle colonies is warmer than the New England colonies that we just learned about.
- Students will answer the question what attracted settlers to the Middle Colonies?
- Read page 226 collectively as a class.
- Students should think, pair, share the following questions after reading page 226.
- Why did few Dutch people want to settle in America?
- What do you think were some costs and benefits to Jews who chose to settle in the colonies?
- Why did few people for the Netherlands settle in New Netherland?
- Read page 227 collectively as a class.
- Students should write the answer to the reading check (page 227) in their social studies textbooks.
- Students will break up into pairs and read pages
228 and 230. Students will answer the summarizing reading check questions as
they read pages 228-230. Students will also answer the question how were the
Quakers similar to and different from the puritans?
Homework Due Friday, October 31, 2014: None.
Classwork, Thursday October 29, 2014:
Classwork, Thursday October 29, 2014:
- Collectively as a class read page 234 in the social studies textbook.
- Students will think, pair, share for the question why did immigrants come to the Middle Colonies?
- Read page 236 as a class. Answer the question what was the Great Awakening as a think, pair, share.
- Read page 237 in pairs. Students will answer the
questions how did the Middle Colonies differ from the New England Colonies? And
why do you think diversity and religious tolerance led some people to think
that slavery was wrong?
Homework Due Monday, November 3, 2014: None.
Classwork, Friday October 31, 2014:
Classwork, Friday October 31, 2014:
- We will watch a Halloween Brain Pop video that will tell us the history of Halloween.
- We will complete the three Halloween worksheets that correspond with the brain pop video.
Homework Due Tuesday, November 4, 2014: Students will define the following vocabulary words diversity, immigrant, great awakening, religious tolerance, militia. Students will write these five vocabulary words in five different sentences.
Classwork, Monday November 3, 2014:
Classwork, Monday November 3, 2014:
- Students will learn about the life within the Middle Colonies.
- Students will go through the life in the Middle Colonies power point.
- Students will define the vocabulary words for this lesson.
- Discuss what The Great Awakening was. Many people became accepting of different religious beliefs. How does the religious beliefs of the middle colonies different from the religious beliefs of the New England colonies (aka. The Puritans)?
- Talk about how the social life of the Middle Colonies differed from the life of the New England Colonies.
- Discuss with a partner what they already know about who Ben Franklin was and what he accomplished in his life.
- Students will breakup into three prearranged
groups. Students will write five important facts for the section they are
given. Each students should write the facts within their social studies notebooks. The sections are The Great Awakening, Benjamin Franklin, and Social
life/ free time within the Middle Colonies.
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Homework Due Wednesday, November 5, 2014: Election Day!! Be sure to join your family to the election polls! Observe democracy in action! Bring in some sort of proof that you attended the polls and you will receive 100 extra points!
Classwork, Tuesday November 4, 2014:
Classwork, Tuesday November 4, 2014:
- Show each slide of the Lesson 3 Farms and Seaports of the Middle Colonies power point.
- Ask the questions that is embedded within the power point.
- Once the power point has been viewed and discussed break students into groups to complete the colonial jobs activity.
- Students will be put into groups of two. Each group will be assigned a colonial job.
- Students will have to write an eight sentence story about their colonial job.
- Two questions to help the students with this activity are:
- What material would the job need to make their products?
- How do they make their product?
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Homework Due Thursday, November 6, 2014: None.
Classwork, Wednesday November 5, 2014:
Classwork, Wednesday November 5, 2014:
- Students will think, pair, share the following questions.
- Students will be put into groups of two. Each group will be assigned a colonial job.
- Students will have to write an eight sentence story about their colonial job.
- Two questions to help the students with this activity are:
- What material would the job need to make their products?
- How do they make their product?
- Students will finish this assignment from yesterday and present their story to the class.
Homework Due Friday, November 7, 2014: Finish Persuasive letter.
Classwork, Thursday November 6, 2014:
Classwork, Thursday November 6, 2014:
- Students will think, pair, share the following questions.
- Which should you buy, a new tool or some new clothes?
- What would be the result of buying a new tool?
- What would you buy? Explain why?
- Students will write a persuasive letter.
- Imagine that it is 1700 and you want to be an apprentice. Choose the type of work you want to do. Then write a letter to a business worker why he or she should accept you as an apprentice and why you want to go into that field.
- As a class we will write a persuasive letter collectively and then students will start working on their letter individually. Student cannot do the same job as the example job we did as a class.
- Students will work on this individually.
Homework Due Monday, November 10, 2014:
Classwork, Friday November 7, 2014:
Classwork, Friday November 7, 2014:
Vocabulary Words
Chapter 6, The Middle Colonies
Homework: Due Thursday October 31st.
· Using your textbook or dictionary as a resource, look up the definitions of each of the vocabulary words. You will have 6 definitions. Please WRITE THEM IN YOUR SS NOTEBOOK.
· Write a sentence PERTAINING TO SOCIAL STUDIES for each of the words on the list. You will have 6 sentences. Please write these on loose-leaf paper.
· This assignment is for a grade. You will get one extra bonus point for each sophisticated word that you utilize in your sentences. You will lose one point for each spelling or grammar mistake in each sentence. You will lose five points for each social studies vocabulary word that is not used properly or that is not used in a sentence pertaining to social studies.
Define in your social studies notebook:
1. refuge
2. proprietor
3. immigrant
4. religious toleration
5. artisan
6. apprentice
Write in a sentence pertaining to social studies on loose-leaf paper:
1. refuge
2. proprietor
3. immigrant
4. religious toleration
5. artisan
6. apprentice