Historical Fiction Ch. 1

Reminders:

• Current Event 2.2 is due on Monday 11/2. Remember to use Newsela, and put the title of the article at the top of your paper. Don't forget your heading. Click here to review the assignment.
• Geo Quiz 2.2 is happening on Monday. Make sure to  study our Geography page here.
• Last class, we reviewed the directions for your historical fiction book assignment. We will be working on this assignment for the next three weeks, and checking regularly to ensure students are keeping pace with the "Chapter Checkpoints". To keep on pace to finish by the due date, students will need to have a completed rough draft of Chapter 1 by the end of today's class.

Opening Activity:

Directions: Read the short passage below, then review the two maps and answer the question at the bottom of the post. Record this answer in the Opening section of your binder.

Students have 10 minutes to complete this task.

By 1750, the American colonies were bursting with growth. Cheap land, new economic opportunities and religious freedom were big reasons why people came to the colonies. However, the colonies were also appealing because the King and British Parliament (the British Government) pretty much let them govern themselves. Each colony elected it's own assembly and created it's own laws, and this gave the colonists a sense of freedom that they did not have elsewhere.

As the colonies grew in population, many people began dreaming of moving west, across the Appalachian Mountains to a region called the Ohio River Basin. This land was appealing, because it was good farm land and there weren't as many people out there. There were a few problems though:

1. Native Americans had been living on this land for centuries, and colonists who moved there risked trouble with these people.
2. France claimed this land for themselves, and considered the English colonists who moved there to be trespassing.

Write out the following paragraph, completing the missing parts in your own words.

• ​By 1750, the colonies were bursting with growth, because of the cheap land, ___________________________, and __________________________. The colonies were also appealing because the British government let them ___________________________ and _______________________.  As the colonies grew, people began moving west, across the Appalachian Mountains, to the ___________________________. They moved to Ohio because it was good farm land and there weren't many people living there at the time. However, there were two big problems with moving to the Ohio River Basin: (1)________________________, and (2)_________________________.