PLC Meeting 11/2

Attendance: Johnson, Gray, and Roy

Exploration Exam -
The exchange of food, products, diseases, etc in the new world.
How did horses become important to the Native Americans?
The slave trade and what drove the slave trade.
Selling cotton to England in order to sell cotton to the North.

Backward planning has helped teachers with the writing prompts and designing the instruction with the evidence in mind.

Students will be asked to do a Biography of 2 explorers and map out their route.

Common student misconceptions to address- That explorers sailed for their native countries.
The embellishment of the new world by the explorers.  The three Gs of exploration - God, Gold and Glory.  Religion played a major part in exploration.