Grade 8 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 7, Lesson 1

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
A More Perfect Union

Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 7, Lesson 1: Life Changes Along the Atlantic Seaboard (pp. 190-195)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Change Changes in technology and economies led to changes in the ways both whites and blacks lived on the Atlantic seaboard.

Use a cause-and-effect chart to outline the changes that European demand and new technologies made in the lives of farmers and city dwellers, both men and women. Be sure students understand how one event caused the next.

Discuss with students the economic and legal limits placed on slaves and contrast those of free blacks. Review how and where free blacks made a living and the problems they encountered.

Lesson Outline
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Check for Understanding

Have students work in groups to create chains of cause-and-effect from a single starting sentence, such as: Europe will buy as much wheat as American farmers will sell. Create starting sentences that cover the content of the lesson, and encourage students to follow the lines of cause-and-effect as far as they can. Have groups share their results.
Have students create a mural showing how the tasks of men and women changed as new technologies developed.

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