1. Friday, August 31 1.Turn in your homework (put on my desk) 2.Turn in your parent letter on my desk if you did not yesterday. 3. Update Table of Contents DateTitleEntry # 8/27First Day of School Notes1 8/27Off the Wall Scavenger Hunt2 8/29European Exploration and Colonization timeline 3 8/30America Before Columbus movie4 8/31Motives for Exploration wksheet/notes 5 3. Turn to entry #4 (the movie from yesterday) in your spiral

2. Early Explorers

3. Why would people leave home to explore?

4. Top 7 Reasons People Explored 1. Curiosity (Wondering what’s out there)

5. Top 7 Reasons People Explored 2. Wealth ($ $ $ $ $)

6. Top 7 Reasons People Explored 3. Fame (becoming well known and popular for discovering a new place

7. Top 7 Reasons People Explored 4. National Pride Make their country more popular, bigger or more famous.

8. Top 7 Reasons People Explored 5. Religion Explorers wanted to spread their religion around the world.

9. Top 7 Reasons People Explored 6. Foreign goods Something that your own country doesn’t have that you could sell.

10. Top 7 Reason People Explored 7. Faster cheaper trade routes For example: Northwest Passage – a faster way to get to Asia

11. Exploration Quiz 1.When you finish raise your hand and I will come and get it 2.Turn to entry #3 (the timeline) and illustrate 3 of the dates.

12. European Exploration and Colonization 1497 Cabot searches for the Northwest Passage 1521 Cortez conquers Mx 1565 Spanish found St. Augustine 1609 Hudson searches for the Northwest Passage 1585 First English colony settled at Roanoke 1607 Jamestown founded 1620 Pilgrims landed at Plymouth 1630 Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony #5