Social Studies Curriculum - Unit 2
Unit 2- Georgia Beginnings
Unit Overview: The focus of this unit is the founding of Georgia by the British at Savannah and their interactions with Creek natives.
Evidence of Learning
What students should know:
James Oglethorpe successfully founded the colony of Georgia through careful planning, continual negotiating and long enduring determination.
• The colony of Savannah was successful because of the cooperative relationships between James Oglethorpe and the Yamacraw Creek Native American tribe who lived near the Yamacraw Bluff.
• Tomochichi was the leader/chief of the Yamacraw Creek tribe who served his people in being loyal, trustworthy and wise in his dealings with both the Creek and the colonists.
• James Oglethorpe honored the Creek tribe, their customs and cultures. Oglethorpe worked to maintain Creek traditions in building his colony of Georgia and the settlement of Savannah.
• Mary Musgrove willingly crossed cultural boundaries and served as an interpreter between the English colonists and the Yamacraw Creek tribe.
• Mary Musgrove facilitated trade of goods and services between the Native Americans and colonists.
• Humans seek areas to settle where there are natural resources to meet their basic needs of food, shelter and clothing.
• Yamacraw Bluff was an ideal location to build a colony because of the abundant natural resources.
• The colony of Savannah was the result of continual planning, cooperation, negotiations and hard labor.
• The colonists needed rules and laws to succeed as a colony of England.
• Communities today need rules and laws to protect basic rights and freedoms of its citizens.
• All monetary decisions throughout history and currently have opportunity costs and benefits/gains
• Individuals have the right to make decisions about their expenditures, personal opportunities, costs and gains.
• Scarcity in colonial times, just as current times, causes people to make choices and incur opportunity costs.
• Goods and services were allocated in colonial times as they are today by price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, command, first-come first-served, personal characteristics and other methods.
• Money has become the means to obtain goods and services because it is easier and fairer to use than bartering.
Unit Overview: The focus of this unit is the founding of Georgia by the British at Savannah and their interactions with Creek natives.
Evidence of Learning
What students should know:
James Oglethorpe successfully founded the colony of Georgia through careful planning, continual negotiating and long enduring determination.
• The colony of Savannah was successful because of the cooperative relationships between James Oglethorpe and the Yamacraw Creek Native American tribe who lived near the Yamacraw Bluff.
• Tomochichi was the leader/chief of the Yamacraw Creek tribe who served his people in being loyal, trustworthy and wise in his dealings with both the Creek and the colonists.
• James Oglethorpe honored the Creek tribe, their customs and cultures. Oglethorpe worked to maintain Creek traditions in building his colony of Georgia and the settlement of Savannah.
• Mary Musgrove willingly crossed cultural boundaries and served as an interpreter between the English colonists and the Yamacraw Creek tribe.
• Mary Musgrove facilitated trade of goods and services between the Native Americans and colonists.
• Humans seek areas to settle where there are natural resources to meet their basic needs of food, shelter and clothing.
• Yamacraw Bluff was an ideal location to build a colony because of the abundant natural resources.
• The colony of Savannah was the result of continual planning, cooperation, negotiations and hard labor.
• The colonists needed rules and laws to succeed as a colony of England.
• Communities today need rules and laws to protect basic rights and freedoms of its citizens.
• All monetary decisions throughout history and currently have opportunity costs and benefits/gains
• Individuals have the right to make decisions about their expenditures, personal opportunities, costs and gains.
• Scarcity in colonial times, just as current times, causes people to make choices and incur opportunity costs.
• Goods and services were allocated in colonial times as they are today by price, majority rule, contests, force, sharing, lottery, command, first-come first-served, personal characteristics and other methods.
• Money has become the means to obtain goods and services because it is easier and fairer to use than bartering.