 Unit 4: Early Peoples of Louisiana and a Meeting of Different Worlds Activity 2: Timeline (GLEs: 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 76)
CC: Divide students into groups to create a tri-level timeline covering the period 1500-1800. The top level shows a focus on Louisiana history, the middle level correlates colonial/U.S. history, and the bottom level correlates significant items in world history. For the Louisiana section, have students include early French and Spanish explorers (e.g., Desoto, LaSalle, Iberville), colonial governors (e.g., Bienville, Cadillac, Ulloa, O’Reilly, de Galvez, Miro), treaties (e.g., Fontainebleau, San Ildefonso), and important dates in the colonial government. Have students annotate these entries to indicate their significance in Louisiana history.
Use Timeliner 5.0 to create timelines for Louisiana History, US/Colonial History, and World History; then merge the three. The Sample LaExplore Timeline is merely an example. Use it only as a guideline.
Web Resources:
History of Louisiana, including a timeline list of events: http://www.state.la.us/about_history2.htm
Louisiana history timeline: http://www.enlou.com/time/timelineindex.htm
United Streaming video:
French Explorers: Colonization of Louisiana and the French and Indian Wars (1689-1763) http://www.unitedstreaming.com/logins/login_www.cfm?unique=5F3F11E4-BCDE-F2E8-77A3A99280F8EE59
CC: Have students design maps with keys/legends depicting the routes of the early French and Spanish explorers. Have them explain why they think the explorers took the routes they did.
Have students describe possible cause/effect or push/pull factors between events in similar time periods among the timelines (world, U.S., Louisiana) (e.g., French/Indian War ending in 1763 and the arrival of the Acadians in the 1760's; Haitian Uprising led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and Napoleon selling Louisiana to the United States).
Using blank maps of Louisiana and the Southeastern US, have students trace the routes of the explorers and hypothesize as to the reasons for those routes. Using Inspiration create cause-effect webs covering events from the timelines.
Web Resources: A Louisiana outline map is available at: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/louisiana/outline/map.GIF. Other Louisiana map links are at: http://www.netstate.com/states/maps/la_maps.htm http://wwwlamap.doa.state.la.us/ |
