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Unit 1 Different Worlds Meet

Unit 2 Colonial Settlement

Unit 3 Creating a Nation

Unit 4 The New Republic

Unit 5 The Growing Nation

Unit 6 Civil War and Reconstruction

Unit 7 Modern America Emerges

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Background Information

Early explorers told long tales, or sagas, about their adventures. One of the most popular Viking sagas is about Eric the Red, who lived in Iceland. He led a sailing expedition that found a rich and fertile land he called Greenland. A tale about Christopher Columbus is that his largest ship, the Santa María, hit a reef off the coast of Haiti, destroying the ship. Columbus sailed home on the Niña, with the Pinta following behind.

Unit 1 Different Worlds MeetTell the Tale of an Explorer

Your Task

A national storytelling contest is open to students. You are entered in the category “Early Explorers of North America.” Prepare a presentation that visually helps you tell the saga of one early North American explorer.


Step 1:

Organize into groups of three or four to research an early North American explorer. Find at least three interesting facts about the explorer’s background and journeys.


Step 2:

Organize your research material into an outline. Study the maps of the region, and use the maps to help determine your explorer’s route. What factors might have influenced the route? How did the weather determine the route? Did the political situation of the explorer’s home country have an influence? If so, how?


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Using the PowerPoint template and the maps, charts, and illustrations provided on the Student Presentation Builder CD-ROM, prepare an 8–10 slide presentation that explains your findings. Use at least two maps, charts, or illustrations. Your presentation should be logically ordered, concise, and well designed. Make sure you use proper grammar and punctuation.


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Each group will have ten minutes to deliver its presentation. Each group member must present a part of the presentation.



In colonial Georgia, women had few rights and usually stayed out of the public eye. Even so, some women were respected for outstanding achievements. Mary Musgrove ran a trading post near Savannah. Musgrove was half-Creek and half-English and a broker in the fur trade. She played a major role in maintaining peace between Native Americans and colonists. She served as an interpreter and negotiator and recruited Native American warriors for James Oglethorpe’s battles with the Spanish.

Unit 2 Colonial SettlementCelebrate Colonial Women

Your Task

A Colonial History museum is set to open, but its main exhibit on colonial women is not finished. The director of the museum has asked for your help in finishing the exhibit. Your exhibit should include a presentation on a colonial woman and her contribution to the settlements. This presentation should be detailed enough to tell the story without further explanation.


Step 1:

Organize into groups of three or four. Choose a colonial woman and research her life and contribution to the colonies. Make sure no other groups have chosen your subject.


Step 2:

Organize your research material into an outline. What maps and charts might help you explain the contribution of your subject? How did the geography of the colonies influence her motives? How was she influenced by the politics of the time?


Step 3:

Using the PowerPoint template and the maps, charts, and illustrations provided on the Student Presentation Builder CD-ROM, prepare an 8–10 slide presentation that highlights the life and achievements of your subject. Use at least two maps or charts to illustrate your findings. Your presentation should be logically ordered, concise, and well designed. Make sure you use proper grammar and punctuation.


Step 4:

Load your presentation on a classroom computer and invite other groups to review your presentation. Review several other presentations created by your classmates.



When Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, he relied on papers written by other writers and on one of his own pamphlets. In 1774, Jefferson published A Summary of the Rights of British America, which addressed most of the issues discussed in the Declaration of Independence. He was also influenced by the literary works of Thomas Paine, who in Common Sense outlined the steps needed to declare independence, and by John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government.

Unit 3 Creating a Nation Tracing the Influences on the Declaration of Independence

Your Task

Your local PBS station has asked you to create a documentary on the writing of the Declaration of Independence. To show the producers what you have planned, you are to deliver a presentation that explains the influences of other writers on Thomas Jefferson.


Step 1:

Organize into groups of four or five. Research Thomas Jefferson and the writing of the Declaration of Independence. What other writers influenced him? What countries were these writers from?


Step 2:

Organize your research material into an outline. What maps and charts might help you explain Jefferson’s views and those of writers in foreign countries? How did the geography of the colonies influence the document?


Step 3:

Using the PowerPoint template and the maps, charts, and illustrations provided on the Student Presentation Builder CD-ROM, prepare an 8–10 slide presentation that highlights the influences on Jefferson’s writing. Use at least two maps or charts to illustrate your findings. Your presentation should be logically ordered, concise, and well designed. Make sure you use proper grammar and punctuation.


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Tecumseh is the anglicized version of Tek-am-thi, which is Shawnee for “Panther Passing Across.” Tecumseh forged a Native American confederacy in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. Many colonists, including William Henry Harrison, held him in high regard. In a private report to the War Department, Harrison described Tecumseh as “one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things.”

Unit 4 The New Republic Give Voice to Native American Leaders

Your Task

Imagine you were a Native American leader. Design a presentation that describes the changing times in which the Native American leader lived.


Step 1:

As a class, compile a list of Native American leaders. Organize into groups of three or four and choose a leader and tribe to research. Make sure that no groups research the same leader. Assign different group members to research and work on different aspects of the research.


Step 2:

Organize your research material into an outline. What maps and charts might help you discuss the leader’s life and tribe?


Step 3:

Using the PowerPoint template and the maps, charts, and illustrations provided on the Student Presentation Builder CD-ROM, prepare a 10–12 slide presentation that explains your findings. Use at least two maps or charts to illustrate your findings. Your presentation should be logically ordered, concise, and well designed. Make sure you use proper grammar and punctuation.


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One of the many stories of endurance on the way west to Oregon is that of Janette Riker. In Montana in September 1849, her father and two brothers went hunting and never came back. Left alone to survive the coming winter, she built a hut and heated it with the family stove and firewood that she chopped. She butchered an ox and salted the meat. Finally Native Americans discovered her. They were so impressed that she had made it through the winter alone that they agreed to take her where she wanted to go.

Unit 5 The Growing NationFollowing the Pioneers West

Your Task

Your local historical society is putting together a portrait of the American pioneer. To aid them in their quest, you are asked to imagine that you lived as a pioneer traveling west. Design a presentation that describes the route you are taking and information about your journey. As different groups of pioneers took different paths west, the result from your class should collectively be sufficient to paint a vivid portrait.


Step 1:

Organize into groups of three or four and choose one of the trails west that pioneers followed. Assign different members of your group to research different aspects of the trail such as the geographic path of the trail, biographical information on who used it, and when it was used.


Step 2:

Organize your research material into an outline. Study the maps of the regions through which your trail passes. Use the maps to help determine how the physical geography may have influenced the journey. What other factors might have influenced the journey?


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Unit 6 Civil War and Reconstruction Understanding History’s Impact on Literature


Walt Whitman was born on Long Island in 1819. He worked in a series of odd jobs including newspaper reporter, editor, printer, carpenter, and schoolteacher. Whitman volunteered as a nurse in military hospitals during the Civil War. He continued to work on his Leaves of Grass throughout his life, eventually expanding the pamphlet of 12 poems to more than 300. Whitman, considered by many to be the first true American poet, died in Camden, New Jersey, in 1892.

Your Task

A local Civil War society has asked you to deliver a presentation at its monthly meeting on an author from the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Choose one author who defined the time in which he or she lived, such as Walt Whitman or Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Develop a presentation to show how the author described the world through his or her work.


Step 1:

As a class, make a list of authors who lived during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Organize into groups of three or four and choose one of the authors, making sure that no group chooses the same author. Assign different members of your group to research and work on different aspects of the author’s life, such as where the author was from and what events could have influenced his or her writing.


Step 2:

Organize your research material into an outline. Study the maps where the author lived and traveled. How did the geography affect the author’s work? How did the political situation affect the author’s work? What other factors influenced the author?


Step 3:

Using the PowerPoint template and the maps, charts, and illustrations provided on the Student Presentation Builder CD-ROM, prepare a 10–12 slide presentation that explains your findings. Use at least two maps, charts, or illustrations. Your presentation should be logically ordered, concise, and well designed. Make sure you use proper grammar and punctuation.


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Unit 7 Modern America EmergesMarketing the National Parks


The National Park System started in 1872 during the era of progressive reform with the creation of the first national park, Yellowstone. National parks protect areas of scenic beauty, places of historic or cultural interest, or specific environments and wildlife populations. The National Park System today has more than 350 units, including national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores, recreation areas, and trails. Delaware is the only one of the 50 states that does not have at least one national park unit.

Your Task

Imagine you own an advertising agency and have been asked by the National Park System to design an advertising campaign to market one of the national parks. Prepare a presentation that features the park’s location and history showing why this park is so important to the nation.


Step 1:

As a class, compile a list of national parks. Organize into groups of three or four and choose one of the national parks to research, making sure that no other group chooses the same park. You may choose to contact the National Park System or go to www.nps.gov for more information. Assign different members of your group to research and work on different aspects of the research, such as the park’s history, significance, and attractions of the park.


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Organize your research material into an outline. Study the maps and charts to help you decide the best way to illustrate your park. Perhaps you can obtain a map of the park. How is the park’s tourism affected by the political or physical environment?


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