Today, students who were finished with the map worked on the Native American Life Grid. They collected information on the political, economic, and social aspects of Native American culture in the area they chose to study. After completing the chart they were asked to interpret the chart by drawing a picture on the back that they feel best represents their Pre-Columbian Native American culture area.
So far, we have collected, organized, and analyzed information. We then gave our interpretation of what life must have been like. Next, we will evaluate- in this case, evaluate means students will develop an opinion as to whether they believe Pre-Columbians really had those aspects of culture to deserve to be called a civilization.
Today we will practice the 5 paragraph essay. Our goal is to answer the question, "Were Pre-Columbian Native Americans worthy of respect?". To learn how to write a proper essay, we will first write a practice essay answering the question, "Are school lunches worth eating?".
We tend to think of American history beginning with the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World in 1492. In reality, it was not a new world, in fact people had been living there for thousands of years. Many civilizations had sprouted and thrived in fertile North America.
