Agenda: (PPT)
•Warm Up: #1
•Discussion/Activity: Frederick Jackson Turner
•Homework:
Read CH 17
1.What is
the frontier? In your description provide 2 or more examples of the frontier at
different points in time throughout U.S. History.
2.Why does Fredrick Jackson Turner believe
the 1890 census is "proof positive" of the end of the American
Frontier?
3.On page 2 of the reading excerpt, what is
something that Turner believes that the Frontier provided to Americans?
4.On page 5, Turner makes mention of the
relationship between the Frontier and the U.S. legislative branch. What is this
relationship that he describes?
5.Page 6 describes the impacts of the
Frontier on the eastern U.S. and Old World Europe. Describe 2 or more of the
impacts that the Frontier had on society according to Turner.
What to do?
Discuss the answers to the questions in
table groups (5 min)
1.Make
sure you are referencing information from the text!!!
2.Share out responses as a whole class (5
min)
3.In your groups can you look through the
excerpt and find ALL 5 of Turner’s arguments about the
Frontier? (5 min)
