A Boat and Bus Tour of the Southeast
Essential Question: What factors have shaped the culture of the Southeast?
Overview
Students tour the Southeast region of the United States by boat and bus. In the Preview activity, a Geography Challenge introduces students to the region. In a Writing for Understanding activity, students listen to a tour guide and view images depicting life in the Southeast. At three of the tour sites, students engage in interactive experiences and learn key concepts and facts about the region. Finally, students write a letter about their excursions in the Southeast. In Reading Further, students meet the quilters of Gee’s Bend and view some extraordinary quilts. The letter-writing activity serves as the Processing assignment for the chapter.
Objectives
Social Studies
• Apply map skills to locate nine important places in the Southeast.
• Use a map of the region to trace the route of a tour through the Southeast.
• Describe the major physical and human features of the Southeast.
• Identify the difficulties that early colonists faced in Jamestown, Virginia; some different southeastern musical traditions; and the ways in which life in America has changed since the civil rights movement.
• Hypothesize the impact of geographic location on art.
Language Arts
• Gather information from an audio tour. (listening)
• Synthesize information into letter form. (writing)
Social Studies Vocabulary swamp, savanna, hurricane, mineral, strip mine, delta, bayou, petroleum, plantation, segregation, abstract
Essential Question: What factors have shaped the culture of the Southeast?
Overview
Students tour the Southeast region of the United States by boat and bus. In the Preview activity, a Geography Challenge introduces students to the region. In a Writing for Understanding activity, students listen to a tour guide and view images depicting life in the Southeast. At three of the tour sites, students engage in interactive experiences and learn key concepts and facts about the region. Finally, students write a letter about their excursions in the Southeast. In Reading Further, students meet the quilters of Gee’s Bend and view some extraordinary quilts. The letter-writing activity serves as the Processing assignment for the chapter.
Objectives
Social Studies
• Apply map skills to locate nine important places in the Southeast.
• Use a map of the region to trace the route of a tour through the Southeast.
• Describe the major physical and human features of the Southeast.
• Identify the difficulties that early colonists faced in Jamestown, Virginia; some different southeastern musical traditions; and the ways in which life in America has changed since the civil rights movement.
• Hypothesize the impact of geographic location on art.
Language Arts
• Gather information from an audio tour. (listening)
• Synthesize information into letter form. (writing)
Social Studies Vocabulary swamp, savanna, hurricane, mineral, strip mine, delta, bayou, petroleum, plantation, segregation, abstract