Student weekly plan Week 1: Oct 12-16, 2020 Teacher: White Grade Level: 7 Subject: Social Studies Q2: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Specials Measurable Objective: I can explain what I can write a script for a role- Continued I can write a story of being a mountain (Students will be able to…) bartering is. play exercise. from Tuesday man and bartering for goods. Materials: Economic Literacy pages Learn360 video Learn360 video 2-3 George Washington’s letter The Fur Trade packet Word Bank template with assignment details Question of the Day What is bartering? Who was George Washington Who was What is a mountain man? before he was president? William Smallwood? Email [email protected] or call 602-285-3003 Read or Watch: Watch: Watch: Segments 1 & 2 Complete Watch: The students need to sign in to access https://www.youtube.co https://learn360.infobase.com/ script https://learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlayl the videos housed in learn360. m/watch?v=TrOgdem- PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=14761 ists.aspx?wID=147611&xtid=68022&loid= Username: Riverbend WkE 1&xtid=129715 Read: George 311418 Password: digital Read: Economic Literacy Washington’s letter to William Read: The Fur Trade Pages 2-3 Smallwood Do: Word bank: surplus, Script: Write a role-play script as Complete Scenario: You are a mountain man and Attend Zoom for https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7149830494 bartering, profitable William Smallwood is bartering script getting ready for the winter months. You Specials at 4?pwd=NFAxc00vY1dHMEZmbENWSjdKd Define all words in the for supplies for George need to fill your trunk before the weather 11:00am EhDZz09 template. Washington. gets to cold. Write a story about your life Meeting ID: 788 as a mountain man and how you survive 9909 4093 Meeting ID: 714 9830 4944 the winter months. Please include bartering, fur trade, items needed in your trunk, and how you survive or maybe didn’t survive. Organizer Zoom at 12:30 for lunch with Zoom at 12:30 for lunch with Mrs. White Mrs. White Assignments Assignment: Watch video, Assignment: Watch video, read Complete Assignment: Write a story following the Turn in this week’s Please turn in assignments only. Do not define new words, read letter, write a script for a role- script and turn scenario above. It needs to be at least 2 assignments. return the entire packet. Please take a page 2 and complete play exercise. it in. pages in length. picture of completed work or scan them assessment on page 3. and either text or email them to me. If Turn in the assessment. you are returning your assignments to Keep the word bank the school, please only return the graded template to complete assignments and not the entire packet. throughout this unit. The information from the packet should be put in a folder or binder for future use. Quarter 2 Social Studies Word Bank Please add new words and their definition. Keep this page. Please send me a picture or PDF to be graded. Surplus Bartering Profitable Instructions: On page 2 is a letter from General George Washington to William Smallwood of the Continental Congress. It is dated Feb 21, 1778. George Washington was serving in the Army, fighting the Revolutionary War. Using what you've learned about bartering and the Revolutionary War, create a role-play script of William Smallwood bartering with merchants for the supplies needed by George Washington and his troops. To BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM SMALLWOOD Head Quarters, Valley Forge, February 21, 1778. Sir: I have been duly favoured with yours of the 10th instant. You intirely misconceived my intention,with respect to the mode proposed of furnishing your division with shoes. I did not mean, that a shoe manufactory should be established for the purpose, but only, that you should contract with private persons, in the way of barter, to furnish you with such a Number of shoes, and to be paid for them, at stipulated rates, in raw hides. This is the mode, which has been, with success, pursued in several instances, and which, I should be glad, if you can find an opportunity, you would embrace. With respect to the proposition from Governor Johnson, I have no objection to your sending the officers required. You know the scope of his requisition, and what the ends of it demand, and will act accordingly. You mention some scruples, as to the operation of our articles of war, with regard to intentional, or attempted desertion. Cases of mere intention, unexpressed in any act, notwithstanding the confession of the Criminal, I do not conceive, to fall within the meaning of that article, which particularly relates to desertion, or to be susceptible of capital punishment; but where intention and any act, expressive of it, correspond, I think there can be no doubt of the propriety of construing it into desertion, and inflicting the sentence of the law. When a man is found at an improper distance from camp, or circumstances that indicate an attempt to desert, he is certainly to be considered and treated as a deserter. If not the attempt, or nothing but the full execution of his design, were to be deemed desertion, the crime could never, or very rarely be ascertained, for, in order to that, it would be necessary, the soldier should have been actually with the enemy and afterwards recovered. When difficulties occur, the spirit rather than the letter of the law is to be consulted, and this appears clearly to be intended by that part of the oath prescribed to courts martial, which declares, “that when any doubts shall arise which is not explained by the articles, the court is to determine, according to conscience, the best of their understanding, and the custom of War in like cases.” George Washington Papers, Series 3, Subseries 3B, Varick Transcripts, Letterbook 5 http://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw3b.005 THE FUR TRADE It would be the attempt to discover the "Northwest Passage" that would lead to the eventual start of the North American fur trade. The "Northwest Passage" was an overland route believed to a quicker and more direct route to the Far East, this never proved to be true. However, instead of a viable land route for migration, explorers discovered a vast reserve of Beavers in the lakes and streams they took while trying to discover this passageway to the East. The Beaver had been extinct in Europe for years due to their highly sought after pelts that were used for hat making or other luxury items. While the exploration of the "Northwest Passage" gave Americans the first glimpse of the potential beaver trade, the first real discovery of this abundance of beavers was credited to the French during the 17th and 18th centuries in both Canada and the US. Eventually it would be the conclusion of the French-Indian war against the British that would shuffle the French out of the region ushering in a age of British control of the Fur Trade in North America. Following the French defeat the Hudson Bay Company took control of basically every fur outlet, monopolizing the market for the next two decades. By 1787, frustrated by the monopoly that Hudson Bay Company had, independent trappers formed a coalition named the Northwest Company to challenge that monopoly. This company rivalry would eventually lead to competition in securing frontier forts, bribery, thievery, arson, and sometimes even murder. After news spread to the British about the actions of the two companies, government officials forced both companies to merge under the single name of Hudson's Bay Trading Company. After this merger the Hudson's Bay Companies only competition was the American Fur Company and the Russian Otter trade that was booming on the pacific coast. This all would happen after the War of 1812 had established duel use for both British and Americans in the Oregon Territory. With the battle lines drawn the Hudson's Bay Company issued orders for its trappers to hunt the beaver into extinction in the Northwest to create a Beaver free buffer zone that would keep the Americans out of prime British trapping territory. This order would prove to be the first in a hotly contested industry that was just getting underway in North America. 7 After a short pause in the Beaver trade during the war of 1812 the American Beaver trade reignited and the rush to get the valuable pelts was on again. New Companies such as the Rocky Mountain Fur Trading Company sprung up to beginning trapping the Beaver in large numbers starting in 1824. This company would set the standard for trappers everywhere in the region with the establishment of the "Rendezvous" which was held annually and would be a tie of trading in pelts for goods needed to restart the trapping hunter for the next year. This was a deviation from the traditional method of relying on local Indians to provide the pelts in trade for common goods. From this staging point new bases of operation began to show up in the central and southern Rocky Mountains also. It would be the abundance of hunters and trading posts that would lead to the eventual collapse of the Beaver industry. Over trapping and shifting fashion interests in Europe contributed to the swift decline in the Beaver trade in Northern America. By 1840 the Beaver trade was completely finished, however the trappers who had been a part of the trade soon found fame in a variety of different professions such as hunting guides, army scouts, or explorers. This would prove to add to their legend, solidifying the Beaver/Fur trade as a staple of the American West.