Today I gave the students the questions that we will be considering during our social studies unit on Encounters. Encounters between Europeans and Native Americans. In the Encounters unit, students are creating their projects, we are reading from our textbook and an historical fiction novel called Sign of the Beaver, and we are watching a variety of videos. Here are the questions we are considering:
- Whose land was it? (The Native Americans or the Europeans who claimed it) Why?
- How did the cultural beliefs held by the Europeans and Native Americans affect these encounters?
- How did weaponry play a part in these encounters? Disease?
- How did Native Americans and pioneers survive?
- What's the difference between explorers, pioneers, and settlers?
- How can a society make things right when a big wrong was committed against people in the past? (Like the Cherokee Indians taken from their lands)
P.S. There is no one right answer to these questions, but students need to back up their opinion with information they have learned in the course of the unit. Any one of these topics would make an interesting discussion in your homes. (*Hint*)
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