Welcome to Virginia, well, Virginia Studies. This year your student will take a journey back in time to help them understand why Virginia was such a great choice for the first permanent English settlement, why they stayed, and how this state and it's citizens helped shaped the landscape of The United States. We will use many resources throughout the year, but two consistent tools will be:
Unit Study Guides: These are derived from the VA. SOL's and are the backbone for in class instruction. These will be glued into interactive notebooks as well as sent home at the beginning of each unit of study. It is suggested that they study these 5 minutes a night throughout each unit.
Interactive notebooks: Students will rarely bring home their VA Studies textbook. The interactive notebooks will serve as their instructional text. Students will mostly use these in class but may bring them home on occasion.
Upcoming Dates:
OUR VIRGINIA STORY:
Where we've been:
Our story begins with knowing where the story takes place.
-Map skills, and the Five Geographic regions of Virginia.
This journey across the five regions will address not only the geography of our beautiful state, but also the products and industries that keep our economy alive.
-Native inhabitants of Virginia.
In this unit we discuss the three major language groups: Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian.
We investigate what they did throughout the year to survive and how the landscape of Va. provided them with the essentials they needed for survival. We will also examine the relationship between the Native Americans and the English settlers.
- We will explore what led England to send settlers to North America, reasons for colonization, and why they chose Jamestown as the site for the first permanent English settlement. Our continued exploration of colonization in Virginia discusses the problems and successes the early settlers had.
- With Jamestown's success and growth, the colonists needed some "elbow room". With a growing population and a booming cash crop (tobacco) many settlers started heading west. With this westward movement went he capital of Virginia. We explore when and why each location was chosen. We will also examine the Colonial Economy and compare it our economy today. We will learn why the institution of slavery was introduced, and the effect it had on a growing cash crop.
-As the founding fathers of our country are coming into place, we see a growing issue with Mother England. After the French and Indian war the King of England takes steps to recoup the money lost to protect the colony. Many colonists are not happy with his decisions, and enter the age of the American Revolution. We will examine the reasons for this Revolution and the men and documents behind it.
-A New Nation begins. We will focus on the founding fathers and the documents that shaped our New Nation. We will also explore the idea of westward movement after the American Revolutionary War.
-After the American Revolution our country began to grow. This was especially true after Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase from the French. As new states were being added the issue of States Rights and slavery was at the forefront. These issues started what the North called a Civil War and the South called The War Between the States. We learned the reason for war and the Virginia people and places that played important roles in the Civil War.
_ Virginians faced serious problems in rebuilding the state after the Civil War. ·The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union. Industry and technology, railroads, and cities began to grow and contribute increasingly to Virginia’s economy. During Reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia’s government, and men of all races could vote.
However after the Reconstruction Era the freedoms and rights that had been promised to African Americans were slowly taken away after Reconstruction, and it would take years to win them back
-Changing Virginia-During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Virginia changed from a rural, agricultural society to a more urban, industrialized society. The students will learn that after World War II, African Americans demanded equal treatment and the recognition of their rights as American citizens. As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, laws were passed that made racial discrimination illegal. They will also learn about the many individuals made political, social, and/or economic contributions to life in Virginia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
-Virginia's Government
-SOL Review
Where we are now:
Where we are headed:
Unit Study Guides: These are derived from the VA. SOL's and are the backbone for in class instruction. These will be glued into interactive notebooks as well as sent home at the beginning of each unit of study. It is suggested that they study these 5 minutes a night throughout each unit.
Interactive notebooks: Students will rarely bring home their VA Studies textbook. The interactive notebooks will serve as their instructional text. Students will mostly use these in class but may bring them home on occasion.
Upcoming Dates:
OUR VIRGINIA STORY:
Where we've been:
Our story begins with knowing where the story takes place.
-Map skills, and the Five Geographic regions of Virginia.
This journey across the five regions will address not only the geography of our beautiful state, but also the products and industries that keep our economy alive.
-Native inhabitants of Virginia.
In this unit we discuss the three major language groups: Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian.
We investigate what they did throughout the year to survive and how the landscape of Va. provided them with the essentials they needed for survival. We will also examine the relationship between the Native Americans and the English settlers.
- We will explore what led England to send settlers to North America, reasons for colonization, and why they chose Jamestown as the site for the first permanent English settlement. Our continued exploration of colonization in Virginia discusses the problems and successes the early settlers had.
- With Jamestown's success and growth, the colonists needed some "elbow room". With a growing population and a booming cash crop (tobacco) many settlers started heading west. With this westward movement went he capital of Virginia. We explore when and why each location was chosen. We will also examine the Colonial Economy and compare it our economy today. We will learn why the institution of slavery was introduced, and the effect it had on a growing cash crop.
-As the founding fathers of our country are coming into place, we see a growing issue with Mother England. After the French and Indian war the King of England takes steps to recoup the money lost to protect the colony. Many colonists are not happy with his decisions, and enter the age of the American Revolution. We will examine the reasons for this Revolution and the men and documents behind it.
-A New Nation begins. We will focus on the founding fathers and the documents that shaped our New Nation. We will also explore the idea of westward movement after the American Revolutionary War.
-After the American Revolution our country began to grow. This was especially true after Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase from the French. As new states were being added the issue of States Rights and slavery was at the forefront. These issues started what the North called a Civil War and the South called The War Between the States. We learned the reason for war and the Virginia people and places that played important roles in the Civil War.
_ Virginians faced serious problems in rebuilding the state after the Civil War. ·The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union. Industry and technology, railroads, and cities began to grow and contribute increasingly to Virginia’s economy. During Reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia’s government, and men of all races could vote.
However after the Reconstruction Era the freedoms and rights that had been promised to African Americans were slowly taken away after Reconstruction, and it would take years to win them back
-Changing Virginia-During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Virginia changed from a rural, agricultural society to a more urban, industrialized society. The students will learn that after World War II, African Americans demanded equal treatment and the recognition of their rights as American citizens. As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, laws were passed that made racial discrimination illegal. They will also learn about the many individuals made political, social, and/or economic contributions to life in Virginia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
-Virginia's Government
-SOL Review
Where we are now:
Where we are headed: