Lesson Topic: Understanding Key Historical Events
Lesson’s Essential Questions:
What were the causes of King Philip’s War? What role did the enslavement of Native Americans play in this war? What were the effects of the war and enslaving Natives for English colonists and Native Nations?
How to structure your lesson
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Check for Prior Learning
What do students already know about…
- Early American settlement
- Conflict between Natives and colonists
- King Philip
- Native enslavement
Optional: Have students fill out the Pre Lesson Worksheet
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New Learning Activity
This lesson should be centered around the Lesson 1 slideshow.
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Check for New Learning
Can students articulate…
- the implications of the war
- how the war impacted English policies and relationships with Native populations
- the progression of native slavery
Ask students…
- What have they learned?
- What do they still want to know?
- What are they not engaged with?
- Optional: Have students fill out the Post Lesson Worksheet
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Closure
In preparation for Lesson 5: Formative Assessment, remind students to organize their notes on King Philip’s War around the role that native enslavement played in colonial expansion. Have students bullet point answers to the Unit’s Essential Questions on a document that they can use as a reference to structure their essay.
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Standards – When and where can you use our lesson?
Common Core:
Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 11–12 texts and topics.
By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11–CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently
Rhode Island:
SSHS.USI.1.2 The impact of European colonization on Indigenous life Argue the ways that European colonization impacted the lifeways and populations of Indigenous peoples.
HP 2: History is a chronicle of human activities, diverse people, and the societies they form.
- 1.9-12: Students chronicle events and conditions by critiquing historical narratives for historical accuracy or points of view
APUSH:
AP US History Unit 2 – Colonial Society, 1607–1754
- 2.5 Interactions between Native Americans and Europeans
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Guiding Questions for Instruction
How should early American history be retaught to include Native enslavement?
How do students understand the role of native enslavement in the King Philip’s War as it relates to colonial expansion?
What was the King Philip’s War like for the different parties (surrendering Natives, Praying Indians, etc.) involved?
Why was King Philip’s War important in the founding of America? What does it illuminate about the founding principles/goals?
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Assessments and Evidence of Understanding
Visual checks – notice student engagement by having them participate in note taking
Verbal checks – have students ask questions in between slides on areas they are confused on
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(Optional) Pre – Lesson Resources for Teachers: