What brought settlers from Europe to North America? By exploring primary sources, such as posters seeking recruits for the new lands, class members take a deeper look at these motivations. To finish, they present their findings to classmates using entertaining skits. 

Concepts

colonial america, spanish colonialism, the english colonies, jamestown, new orleans, st. augustine, plymouth colony, the dutch, american history, early american history

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Analyze images of recruitment posters for immigration to North America
• Develop skits to explain the causes of European migration

Classroom Considerations

• Class members will need basic art supplies for this class

Pros

• Includes rubrics for more consistent grading
• Posters are visually engaging

Cons

• Resource does not reflect the impact of European migration on indigenous peoples

Common Core

RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.9