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Students discuss contemporary methods of travel and the time it takes to travel to places. They use the Internet to explore 18th century travel. Students work in small group to research the amount of time it would have taken representatives of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to travel from their home colonies and compare to the amount of time it would take by automobile.
Examine the Latin and Greek language and civilization during the 19th century by exploring the mediums available then. Students examine scenes related to Greek and Roman literature and compare and contrast them.
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students answer 11 multiple choice questions regarding late 17th and 18th century America. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Students investigate the concepts related to being a child in the 18th Century. They conduct research using a variety of resources while focusing upon the family of Abigail Adams who had six children. They examine five paintings and write responses based upon observation.
Students discover daily life on George Washington's plantation, Mount Vernon. In this compare and contrast lesson, students examine the life styles at four distinct sites at Mount Vernon to become familiar with the people, places, and objects that were part of 18th century life.
Take a tour of the major art movements that marked the 19th and 20th centuries. This is an excellent resource intended as an art history review. Through examples it covers, Romanticism, Realism, photography, Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Fin de Siecle (turn of the century) sculpture, Fauvism, and German Expressionism. Image-rich and ready to go.
Students arecognize the architecture of another culture, how the architecture of a people records their history, explore artistic elements, explore and use geometric concepts of shape, pattern, and symmetry.
Learners explore life as early settlers in Frederica by pretending to be crafts/tradesmen there and writing letters describing the fort/town to a friend or family member still in Great Britain, debating reconstruction vs. preservation, and discussing plan
Students gather information on the Holocaust. Using document-based questions, they evaluate the different perspectives of primary sources. They are introduced to the topic of antisemitism and its role throughout the 15th through 18th centuries.
The Atlantic slave trade is thoroughly depicted and explained here, in terms of economics and pre-colonization. Plantation life, eighteenth century technology, economics of the time, and dealings with Africa are all covered. Note: Each slide contains a lot of information, several class periods will be needed.