State Standard:

 

SS8H2 The student will analyze the colonial period of Georgia’s history.
     a)      Explain the importance of James Oglethorpe [pp. 114-129], the Charter of    
           1732 [pp. 115-116], reasons for settlement (charity, economics, and defense),
           Tomochichi [pp. 118-129], Mary Musgrove, and the city of Savannah [pp.
           120-121].
     b)      Evaluate the Trustee Period of Georgia’s colonial history, emphasizing the role
           of the Salzburgers [pp. 121-124], Highland Scots [pp. 124-125], malcontents,
           and the Spanish threat [pp. 124-127] from Florida.
     c)      Explain the development of Georgia as a royal colony [pp. 142-148] with
           regard to land ownership, slavery [p. 146], government [pp. 142-148], and the
           impact of the royal governors [p. 142-148].
 

Monday
9/24/07
 

 

 

 

Tuesday
9/25/07

 

Wednesday
9/26/07
 

 


 

Thursday
9/27/07

 


 

Friday
9/28/07

 
 
Students turned in their Advertisement Assignments at the start of class today. 

We spent the remainder of the class period working on the Georgia Studies Presents..."The Founding of Georgia" assignment.  Students will be working this week to write a play that recreates the founding of Georgia.  They will then record an audio version of the play to be broadcast by podcast. 

This first scene's script was to be completed in class today.
 
Today in class, we continued working on the Georgia Studies Presents..."The Founding of Georgia" assignment.  Students worked on completing the scripts for scenes 2 & 3 today. 
 
At the start of class, it was announced that the Exploration and Colonization Test as well as the notebook check will be this Friday instead of tomorrow.  This was changed due to Cogat testing schedule.

Today in class, we continued working on the Georgia Studies Presents..."The Founding of Georgia" assignment.  Students worked on completing the scripts for scene 4 today.
 
Today in class, we continued working on the Georgia Studies Presents..."The Founding of Georgia" assignment.  Students worked on completing the scripts for scene 5 today.

Groups then reported their progress at the end of class and received a grade on the amount of the assignment they had completed.
 
Notebooks were collected for grading at the start of class. 

We then took the test on exploration and colonization of Georgia.
 
 

 

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