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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World Lesson PlanSheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World Lesson Plan
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Stanford University
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students study two 17th-century maps of Virginia and think critically about how the differences in the maps reveal insights into how the English perspective on land and relations with Native Americans changed over time.

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colonization, european exploration

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document-based, historical claim, historical inquiry, dbq, jamestown colony, new world, reading like a historian, sheg, primary source

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Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.8 RH.11-12.3

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