Unit One: The Peopling of British North America

August 16: Introduction and overview: why are we here?; summer reading commentary

August 17: AP/ACC/ACP overview; here is how we do business; answer questions; Native American
societies before European Contact

August 18: quick quiz on first history reading; Columbian Exchange and Spanish Exploration and
Conquest; indigenous peoples and their literature

August 21: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System; Cultural Interactions Between
Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans and a review of paragraph writing

August 22: The Regions of British Colonies; English settlements and John Smith

August 23: Regions of British colonies; William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and the
elements of Puritan Plain Style; redrafting of summer reading paragraph

August 24: The Middle Passage and Slavery in the British Colonies; Robert Hayden and Whittier poems

August 25: Interactions Between Native Americans and Europeans; roles of women in Puritan society

August 28: “The Custom House” from The Scarlet Letter, notes on Hawthorne, and reading the novel

August 29: The Scarlet Letter, chapters 1-4; immigration and early cities

August 30: Colonial society and Culture; The Scarlet Letter, chapters 5-8

August 31: The Scarlet Letter, chapters 9-13; colonial society, including The Great Awakening

September 1: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and introduction to classical rhetoric; another
look at forming thesis statements

September 5: The Scarlet Letter, chapters 14-19

September 6: The Seven Years’, or French and Indian, War; The Scarlet Letter, 20-24

September 7: The Scarlet Letter wrap-up

September 8: 20-Time; review

September 11: Test One