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**Unit 1: Native American Migration → The Great Awakening (4 weeks) **
__ Readings __ : -  Text: Chapters 1-5 -  Zinn’s //A People’s History//…: Chapters 1-3 -  Erdoes & Ortiz’s //American Indian Myths & Legends//: Apache & Lakota Creation Stories -  Bartolomé de las Casas’s //Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies// -  Writings from Thomas Hobbes & John Locke -  Handouts

__Themes__: 1.  Scientific theory about Native American migration to the Americas 2.  How cultural worldviews and imperial motives affected how different groups treated each other 3.  Development of regional economies in the North American colonies __Content__: ·  European context behind American exploration ·  The large-scale intercontinental exchange of peoples, crops, animals, and disease ·  A political, economic, and social comparison of the European colonies established in North America in the seventeenth century ·  History of the slave trade, the Middle Passage, and the creation of community among African Americans in the eighteenth century. ·  Comparison of the eighteenth-century Spanish, French, and English colonies ·  Cultural changes in Indian America brought about by contact with European customs & lifestyles · <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Enlightenment ideas and the backlash against them __Projects__: - <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Early North American Regions Project: Groups will be given one of the North American regions during the 18th Century. Using the textbook and at least two other sources, each group will prepare an outline of the important groups, events, economy, and cultural aspects of the region. Then, each group must prepare some a visual presentation of the region and present it to the class. __ Discussions __ : 1. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Should we pay more attention to native oral tradition as educational, rather than just fascinating curiosities? 2. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Why still Columbus Day? How about De Las Casas Day? 3. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> African Americans had the “One Drop Law” to determine race, while Native Americans have to prove they're “Indian enough”? Why the difference? 4. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Enlightenment question: Are we good or evil? Reflections of this question in U.S. Constitution and form of government.

__Movies__:  **[|Apocalypto]** **- As Mayans face their decline, the rulers order more human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, escapes & runs for his life.**  **[|1492: Conquest of Paradise]** - Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the local, native people.  [|Black Robe]  – Hurons guide a Jesuit priest & a companion through early Quebec.  **[|The Crucible]**- A 17th-century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchcraft.  **The Scarlet Letter** – A woman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony has a child out of wedlock and pays for it with public humiliation.  **[|The Mission]** - 18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.