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In Virginia Studies we will be using the Scott Foresman Virginia Series along with an Interactive Notebook.
Students will have homework assignments in their workbooks, practice worksheets, reading in textbook or interactive notebook. Students will need dividers, a notebook and a 2" binder for Virginia Studies their interactive notes. These notebooks will be kept in the classroom and sent home only when needed. At the end of each chapter please sign and return test. for our year-end review.
1st Nine Weeks Objectives:
Skill: VS.1 (On-going) -Students will develop skills for historical and geographical analysis
a) identify and interpret artifacts and primary and secondary source documents to understand events in history;
b) determine cause and effect relationships;
c) compare and contrast historical events;
d) draw conclusions and make generalizations;
e) make connections between past and present;
f) sequence events in Virginia history;
g) interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives;
h) evaluate and discuss issues orally and in writing;
i) analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events
Skill: VS.2 -Students will demonstrate knowledge of the geography and early inhabitants of Virginia by:
a) locating Virginia and its bordering states on maps of the United States;
b) locating and describing Virginia's Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge
Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau;
c) locating and identifying water features important to the early history of Virginia (Atlantic Ocean, Chesapeake Bay, James River, York River, Potomac River, and Rappahannock River);
d) locating three American Indian (First American) Language groups (the Algonquian, the Siouan, and the Iroquoian) on a map of Virginia;
e) describing how American Indians (First Americans) adapted to the climate and their environment to secure food, clothing, and shelter.
Skill: VS.3 - Students will demonstrate knowledge of the first permanent English settlement in America by:
a)
explaining the reasons for
English colonization
b) describing how geography influenced the decision to settle at Jamestown;
c) identifying the importance of the charters of the Virginia Company of London in establishing the Jamestown settlement;
d) identifying ithe importance of the Virginia Assembly (1619) as the first representative legislative body in English America
e) identifying the importance of the arrial of Africans and women to the Jamestown settlement;
f) describing hardships faced by settlers at Jamestown and the changes that took place to ensure survival;
g) describing the interactions between the English settlers and the Powhatan people, including the contributions of the Powhatans to survival of the settlers
b) describing how geography influenced the decision to settle at Jamestown;
c) identifying the importance of the charters of the Virginia Company of London in establishing the Jamestown settlement;
d) identifying ithe importance of the Virginia Assembly (1619) as the first representative legislative body in English America
e) identifying the importance of the arrial of Africans and women to the Jamestown settlement;
f) describing hardships faced by settlers at Jamestown and the changes that took place to ensure survival;
g) describing the interactions between the English settlers and the Powhatan people, including the contributions of the Powhatans to survival of the settlers