Colonial America

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Everything students needs to know about Colonial America!

WORKBOOK: You need only one for the entire class!

Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!
Lectures with graphic organizers.
Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons.
Lotsa mapping.
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Group analysis and debates.
Projects: Students teach the class.
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of Colonial America” (recall terms).
“Can you talk like a colonial American?” (define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Concludes with the mother of all tests: 516 questions!
[Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]
    Colonial America includes:
  • Exploration: Why the Europeans colonized North America. Thumbnail profile of each explorer. (“Pizarro was not a nice guy.”) “If you were Henry Hudson, what would YOU have done?” The Columbian Exchange.
  • Colonization: Why the English founded colonies in the New World. Geography of colonial America. The Mayflower Compact. Life in colonial America. Games: “Name that colony!” “Name that region!” Which colonies were founded for religious freedom?
  • Key events: The 15 major events in colonial America.
  • Key people: Play “Name that founder!” Interpret famous quotations from John Winthrop’s “City upon a hill” to John Smith’s “He who does not work, shall not eat.”
  • Mercantilism: How England eclipsed Spain.
  • Representative government: Why representative government arose in the Thirteen Colonies. How religion contributed to the growth of representative government. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Great Awakening.

The Test
It consists of 516 questions.
This is the mother of all tests on Colonial America.
If your students can do well on our test . . . the state test should be a breeze!

Simple to use
One book for the whole class.
No learning curve: Lessons are ready to reproduce.

Saves time
All the facts are included:
There is no need to use a textbook or reference books.
Your students will zip through the material.
Each lesson is 20 minutes in and out. Perfect for block scheduling.