Social Studies

Grade 4 * Quarter 3 * Week 1

Unifying Question How do I select and test possible options to make decisions?
When deciding what sources to trust, I need to consider by whom, when, and why the source was developed.

Enduring Understandings
Culture changes when people interact. History is an interpretation of the past.

Describe the settlement of St. Augustine Analyze how conflict affected relationships among early St. Augustine settlers and Native Americans Q3W1D1

Revisit: Grade 4 Timeline of History

Answer: What important events took place in the

Americas in the 1500s? Define the term conflict. Answer:

What conflicts arose between European explorers and

Native Americans during the Age of Exploration? How did Native Americans feel about the arrival of Europeans? How do you think European explorers weighed options when making decisions about where to establish colonies in the New World?

Describe the settlement of St. Augustine Analyze how conflict affected relationships among early St. Augustine settlers and Native Americans Q3W1D1
View: Florida in the 1500s Answer:

How might previous conflicts make it difficult to establish a Spanish colony in this area? What other conflicts may have effected Spanish decisions to settle in Florida?
Read: St. Augustine and the Spanish Empire or Building St.

Augustine by Ellen Cutler. Graphic Organizer: Early Settlements Graphic Organizer. Record information about the earliest settlements in what is now the United States. Discuss: Do you agree or disagree with the Spanish decision to build a settlement at St. Augustine? Use evidence and reasons to support your opinions. Record a Social Studies journal entry from the perspective of either a Native American or a Spanish settler that describes the settlement of St. Augustine.

Describe the settlement of St. Augustine Analyze how conflict affected relationships among early St. Augustine settlers and Native Americans Q3W1D1

Describe the settlement of St. Augustine Analyze how conflict affected relationships among early St. Augustine settlers and Native Americans Q3W1D1

Describe how the settlement of St. Augustine impacted Native Americans. Describe how cultures changed as a result of interactions among Native Americans and St. Augustine settlers.
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Note: Historians have the challenge of determining the

reliability of sources of information. Analysis of Various Sources . Revisit the section of text about the Timucua Indians who lived in the area where the Spanish created the settlement of St. Augustine. Answer: From where do you think the author got this information? Analyze a presentation of primary source watercolors and descriptions of the Timucua such as The Timucua as Depicted by Jacques LeMoyne, 1564, explaining that LeMoynes is considered to be the first European artist to depict Native Americans in what is now the United States.

Describe how the settlement of St. Augustine impacted Native Americans. Describe how cultures changed as a result of interactions among Native Americans and St. Augustine settlers.
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Record evidence of the impact of European settlement on

the Timucua (Impact of the Settlement of St. Augustine). Answer: What bias do you notice in these drawings? Read a secondary source that describes the impact that the settlers of St. Augustine had on the Timucua and Apalachee Native Americans. Add information to your graphic organizers. Create a drawing or tableau demonstrating how European and Native American cultures changed as a result of interactions at the settlement of St. Augustine. Answer: How did you use evaluation strategies to determine the credibility of information when choosing information to use in describing the impact of the settlement of St. Augustine on Native Americans?

Describe how the settlement of St. Augustine impacted Native Americans. Describe how cultures changed as a result of interactions among Native Americans and St. Augustine settlers.
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Describe how the settlement of St. Augustine impacted Native Americans. Describe how cultures changed as a result of interactions among Native Americans and St. Augustine settlers.
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Describe the settlement of Roanoke Analyze the difficulties encountered in the Roanoke settlement
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Note: Historians have few clues to determine what happened to

the first attempt at a settlement in North America by the English. The colony of Roanoke is often referred to as the Lost Colony. We will be analyzing information about the settlement of Roanoke and combining this information with what they know about the settlement of St. Augustine to analyze what we think might have happened to the Roanoke settlement. View: The "Lost" Colony: Sir Walter Raleigh Establishes the English Colony of Virginia or Hard Times in Virginia Record information about the settlement of Roanoke on your Early Settlements Graphic Organizers. Answer: According to historians, what difficulties do we know the settlers at Roanoke encountered? Create a dramatization, tableau, or short skit to demonstrate what you believe happened to the settlement of Roanoke. Analyze: What information did you use to infer what difficulties might have led to the disappearance of Roanoke?