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Content Area: Social Studies
Index: 6.4D Grade 8 CPI 2
Standard: 6.4 - US & NJ History
Strand: D - Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will describe the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that emerged in Colonial America, including New Netherland and colonial New Jersey.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· The historical events addressed in these activities include the following: · The migration of Dutch and Puritan settlers into northern New Jersey and their subsequent settlement there · The arrival of Quaker settlers in southern New Jersey · The epidemics that decimated the local Native-American tribes, · The stretching of the European settlers across Indian land, · The lives of New Jersey slaves,
Divide class into five committees, one for each of the above topics. After reading these materials, students engage in individual and group writing, discussion, and further research. Committee report to the full class on their topics. Teacher guides class in putting all of the content together into a coherent picture of Early New Jersey.
Students study and compare William Penn’s policies toward the native Indian tribes with that of the settlers in the north of the state. What was Penn’s background? What did his upbringing and his religion teach him about treatment of other people? What does the evidence tell us about the kind of person Mr. Penn was? Students research the relations with Native Americans of the other settlers in Pennsylvania and the surrounding states.
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