Last updated: June 4, 2023
Lesson Plan
The Lost Cause: Colonization, Chattel Slavery, and Migration (Grades 9-12) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS
- Grade Level:
- High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
- Subject:
- Literacy and Language Arts,Social Studies
- Lesson Duration:
- 60 Minutes
- State Standards:
- North Carolina World History and American History
I.1.3 Gathering and Evaluating Sources
WH.G.1.1
AH.B.1.3
AH.B.1.5
AH.C&G.1.4
North Carolina English Language Development
ELD-SI.4-12.Narrate
ELD-SI.4-12.Inform
ELD-SS.9-12.Explain - Thinking Skills:
- Understanding: Understand the main idea of material heard, viewed, or read. Interpret or summarize the ideas in own words. Applying: Apply an abstract idea in a concrete situation to solve a problem or relate it to a prior experience. Analyzing: Break down a concept or idea into parts and show the relationships among the parts. Evaluating: Make informed judgements about the value of ideas or materials. Use standards and criteria to support opinions and views.
Essential Question
What were the causes of migration to the Americas? The Low Country? The Mountains?
How do those migrations shape culture?
Objective
I can explain the causes of human migration to different regions.
I can explain how migration shapes the culture of an area.
Background
This lesson is the first of three lessons that help students to identify the causes and effects of human migration (voluntary and forced) to a region.
Preparation
Prepare for this lesson by accessing the materials tab for Powerpoint Presentation, and student questions.
Materials
Students use this worksheet or the Digital Station to examine historical documents and answer questions.
PowerPoint Presentation provides digital versions of historic documents and sources for students to examine and consider in answering the worksheet questions for this lesson.
Download Digital Stations PowerPoint
Lesson Hook/Preview
(Activating Strategy)
Opener discussion questions
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What are common push and pull factors for migration to other places?
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What migrations have we already discussed in class?
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Do you know how your family came to live in this region?
Procedure
(Teaching Strategy)
Lesson will be structured so it can be used as a digital activity, carousel activity, or PPT lesson using the links above.
It will be a series of excerpts and visuals that students will interact with, summarize, discuss individually. Docs will also be used together to create a list, thesis and/or brief essay on the push and pull factors of immigration/emigration
(Summarizing Strategy)
Students will respond the conclusion prompts on the student questionaire
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What were the major push and pull factors that brought emigrants from the Charleston area to the Flat Rock area?
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What is the biggest impact (social, economic, or religious) of African immigration to the mountains of North Carolina?
Vocabulary
Hegemony -- The social, cultural, ideological, political, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group over another.
Cultural diffusion -- Cultural diffusion is the spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures. These different cultures all have many diverse types of food, clothing and even languages that expand and evolve through contact between communities.
Immigrate (Immigration/Immigrating) -- to enter and establish oneself in a new place, especially to come into a country which one is not yet native or a permanent resident.
Emigrate (Emigration/Emigrating) -- departure from a place of abode, native home or country for life or residence elsewhere.
Colonization--the action of appropriating a place or domain for one's own use.
Chattel slavery -- This is the type of slavery that was instituted in the antebellum United States. The system was race based and equated a human being with personal property, to be included on the same registers as furniture and livestock.
Enslaved-The condition of being in the bondage of slavery, a person or people who are treated as the legal property of another and forced to obey them. Enslaved persons are often denied the freedom to exercise human rights at will or are extremely limited and monitored in their agency.
Demographics — Characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used to identify subgroups of communities and regions.
Lowcountry -- The Lowcountry is a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina's coast, including the Sea Islands.
Miasma – A vaporous exhale or atmosphere formerly believed to cause diseases such as Malaria and Yellow Fever. In the Lowcountry of Charleston South Carolina, wealthy landowners would travel to the mountains to escape the “sickly season” caused by what they thought was miasma. Miasma was considered more prominent in crowded towns like Charleston.
Enrichment Activities
Extension Activities
Immigration push and pull factors fall into one of four basic categories:
- political
- social
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economic
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environmental
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Which categories did we see in the documents today?
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Play this kahoot to review the basic categories of push and pull factors
Related Lessons or Education Materials
See lesson Two and Three in this series to complete the unit study