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Social Studies

8th Grade

Hard

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Joseph Anderson

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5 Slides • 4 Questions

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Nat Geo 8th Grade - Chapter 3 Section 1

The Middle Colonies

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Essential Question

  • How did early settlers cope with challenges as they established the first 13 colonies?

  • The Middle Colonies’ population included Europeans from various countries, people from other English, Dutch, and West Indies colonies, and Native Americans. Lesson 3.1 explores the reasons for this diversity and the challenges it brought.

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Objective

  • Understand how diversity influenced events in the Middle Colonies through identifying main ideas and details, analyzing cause and effect, interpreting maps, and comparing and contrasting.

  • Main Idea

  • The Middle Colonies included a diverse mix of cultures and religions as people from different countries began to settle in the region.

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Open Ended

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Reading Check


Use complete sentences and academic language. Cite textual evidence.


What factors contributed to the diversity of the Middle Colonies?

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Open Ended

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Analyze Cause and Effect


What caused William Penn to allow Delaware to form its own assembly?

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Open Ended

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Interpret Maps


Look at the map on page 108 in your textbook. Answer the question.


Locate Delaware on the map.


Why does it make sense that Penn might have difficulty uniting people who settled there with the settlers who lived in the rest of of Pennsylvania?

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Open Ended

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Compare and Contrast


How did William Penn’s purpose for establishing a colony differ from Cornelius Jacobsen May’s?

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Homework

Directions:


Label the 4 colonies that make up the Middle Colonies. Color them in.

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Nat Geo 8th Grade - Chapter 3 Section 1

The Middle Colonies

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