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Are YOU Ready?

Once you have it open, TYPE “Got it!” in the CHAT.

  • Go to your NEW 8G ELA/SS Google Classroom and open the CW: Haudenosaunee Confederacy under Week of 2/8-2/12

Greeter: Messina and Angel

Slides Presenter: Donte’yanna and Seven

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Do Now - 2 minutes

Directions:

Type in the chat -

What Notices do you have about these images (write 1)?

What Wonders do you have (write 1)?

CHAT Everyone Publicly.

Do Now Starter: Carter and Asanti

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Notice

Wonder

  • A lady on the Liberty coin
  • Currency
  • How old is the coin?
  • What is the value of the coin?
  • What do the arrows represent?

Chat Moderator: McKenzie and Tasniim

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Notice

Wonder

  • A running theme with the arrows
  • Images are all symbols
  • All related to the United States
  • How does Haudenosaunee have to do with America?
  • Why do 3 out of 4 have arrows?
  • Where is the last image from?

Chat Moderator: McKenzie and Tasniim

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Learning Target:

I can explain how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy impacted democracy.

Announcements:

  • EVIDENCE Reading and Questions - due Thurs, Feb. 18th!

  • Types of Government Quiz is OVERDUE
  • Office Hours - 11:45 open, 2:30 by appointment

Class Norms:

  1. Be engaged and participate (your camera should be ON)

  • Stay on Topic

  • Use your growth mindset
  • Advocate for yourself

Agenda:

1. Are You Ready (3)

2. Do Now (3)

3. Share (3)

4. Announcements (1)

5. Class Jobs (1)

6. Exit Ticket Experts (1)

5. Mini Lesson (5)

6. CFU Poll (1)

7. Sm. Grp. Practice (15)

9. Brain Break (1)

10. Jigsaw Share (10)

11. Shout Outs (1)

12. Week-at-a-Glance (1)

13. Exit Ticket (3)

Feb 8th

Announcer: Javon and Hanna

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Who are the Haudenosaunee?

  • 6 N.A. nations
  • Came together from enemies to unity

What is significant about their form of government?

  • The women chose the people in charge
  • The basis of America’s democracy
  • One of the oldest democracies

Moderator: Khalil and Kyree

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Who are the Haudenosaunee?

  • 6 native groups
  • Similar cultures
  • “People of the longhouse”

What is significant about their form of government?

  • Formed a democracy together
  • Women choose leaders and can contribute to political decisions

Moderator: Khalil and Kyree

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* Put your answer in the poll

* In the chat, write WHY you put this answer

Directions: Read the statement and answer the correct option in the poll.

The United States democracy was modeled after the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

  1. TRUE
  2. FALSE

Pollster: Julian and Alice

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Learning Target:

I can explain how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy impacted democracy.

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Directions:

  • Today you will have 15 minutes in small groups to look at primary and secondary sources about the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and its influence on U.S. democracy and answer two (2) questions.
  • We are going to do a Jigsaw share. Be prepared to share what you learned with the other two groups.
  • Need help? Privately chat Ama, Nicole, or Zo.
  • Go to your NEW 8G ELA/SS Google Classroom and open the CW: Haudenosaunee Confederacy under Weeks of 2/8-2/17

How do we know that early American colonists and Founding Fathers adopted democratic ideas from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)?

Who most often has gotten credit for inspiring U.S. democracy? (what civilization?) Why do you think that is?

What similarities are there between the Haudenosaunee form of government and the United States Government?

What values did the United States adopt from the Haudenosaunee?

Dramatic Reader: Alexis and Zuri

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8.1 Small Group Breakout Rooms

Ama - Main Room

Sources 2

Zo - ROOM 1

Sources 1

Khori

Messina

Carter

McKenzie

Eve

Winnie

Jacinda

Catalina

Zola

Julian

Kaiya

Allen

Khalil

Chloe

Javon

Donte’yanna

Jamia

Alexis

Noah

Trevon

Jared*

Bronwyn

Time Supervisor: Chloe and Kaden

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Excerpts from The New York Times, “Iroquois Constitution: A Forerunner to Colonists’ Democratic Principles”, 1987

One of the main influences on the framers of the Constitution was the unwritten democratic constitution under which the Iroquois Confederacy had operated since the 16th century, according to a group of American Indians and scholars.

''If Americans are going to celebrate the anniversary of their Constitution, we figure we had better tell them where the idea came from,'' said Chief Oren Lyons, an Onondaga and an associate professor of American studies at the State University at Buffalo.

The Onondaga are one of the six nations that now make up the confederation, which stretches from the Mohawks near Albany to the Senecas near Buffalo.

Before Europeans settled upstate in the 1600's, the Five Nations of the Iroquois lived under a constitution that had three main principles: peace, equity or justice and ''the power of the good minds,'' that of the elders over the young, Professor Lyons said.

An Onondaga named Canassatego suggested that the colonists form a nation similar to the Iroquois Confederacy during a meeting of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in Lancaster on June 25, 1744.

One forum to share ideas between the colonists and the Iroquois, in the years leading to the French and Indian War, was the Albany Congress between June 19 and July 9, 1754. At the meeting, representatives of the six Indian nations and seven colonies heard Benjamin Franklin. champion the Iroquois example as he presented his Plan of Union.

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How do we know that early American colonists and Founding Fathers adopted democratic ideas from the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois?

  • There are close similarities between our democracy and the Haudensaunee democracy
  • Tribal history has records of early Americans learning from the Haudensaunee
  • The early Plan of Union was written with the Haudenosaunee

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Who most often has gotten credit for inspiring U.S. democracy? (what civilization?) Why do you think that is?

  • Ancient Greece and Rome get credit; also England.

- a lot of these are from Middle East and Europe

- far away

- they look the same - European heritage

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In 1754, Franklin met with Colonial and Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) leaders to discuss how the colonies might govern themselves. It was called the Albany Congress. Hendrick, a Mohawk chief, showed them how the Iroquois Confederacy worked. "To illustrate the power of unity," Mr. Tarbell says, "Hendrick used the example the Iroquois used when their nations came together: He held up one arrow and broke it, then held up five arrows bound together and showed how they could not be broken."

The next day, Tarbell notes, Franklin presented a plan for a new American government designed to weld the individual Colonies into a unified whole. It was called the Albany Plan of Union, and it included many features of Iroquois law. -California Indian Education Network

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The U.S. Constitution developed by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson was indeed influenced by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Both models stress the importance of unity and peace and provide freedom to seek out one’s success. Similarities can also be seen in the symbols of each nation. While the Great Law features five arrows bound together as a symbol signifying the unity and strength of the five nations, the seal of the United States uses an eagle clutching a bundle of 13 arrows signifying the 13 original colonies.

The way the U.S. Congress operates is also similar to the actions made by the Grand Council as outlined by the Peacemaker. Within Grand Council meet the Chiefs of each nation which then divide into sections of Elder Brothers and Younger Brothers. This model is very similar to the U.S. Constitution’s two-house congress.

The founding fathers of the United States had ample opportunity to study and learn from the Haudenosaunee. Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers attended treaty councils that brought to life the proceedings of the confederacy. One particular meeting saw Canassatego, the then Chief of the Onondaga, impressing upon the colonists the importance of forming a union of all the colonies.

During 1750 it was clear that the colonist’s ideals were beginning to diverge from those of Europe and Franklin began to look at a new system of government. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy model presented a society free of oppression and definition of class.

June 19, 1754 marked a monumental meeting of the Albany Congress with members from each colony with the Haudenosaunee in attendance. Mohawk Chief Hendrick was asked to explain the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s model. Following the Albany Congress Franklin drew up a plan that had all the British American colonies federated under a single legislature with a president-general who would be appointed by the Crown, a very similar model to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Like the confederacy all states had to agree on a course of action before it could be implemented.

-Haudenosaunee Confederacy (current tribal website)

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What similarities are there between the Haudenosaunee form of government and the United States Government?

What values did the United States adopt from the Haudenosaunee?

  • The use of symbols to represent certain things.
  • The structure of government (The 2 houses).
  • The one person who has “power” similar to executive control the president has.
  • Open discussion in decision making via majority votes.
  • Having one document that can be referenced.
  • The idea of unity.
  • The Haudenosaunee’s values like no division via class, and no oppression were not adopted.

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8.2 Small Group Breakout Rooms

Ama - Main Room

Sources 2

Zo - ROOM 1

Sources 1

Tasniim

Chaisse

Asanti

Hanna

Tyrone

Seven

Kwesi

Yonas

Zuri

Jalayia

Angel

Demonta

Kyree

Ze

Kaden

Anaya

Jewel

Kelis

Alice

Cole

Time Supervisor: Chloe and Kaden

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Excerpts from The New York Times, “Iroquois Constitution: A Forerunner to Colonists’ Democratic Principles”, 1987

One of the main influences on the framers of the Constitution was the unwritten democratic constitution under which the Iroquois Confederacy had operated since the 16th century, according to a group of American Indians and scholars.

''If Americans are going to celebrate the anniversary of their Constitution, we figure we had better tell them where the idea came from,'' said Chief Oren Lyons, an Onondaga and an associate professor of American studies at the State University at Buffalo.

The Onondaga are one of the six nations that now make up the confederation, which stretches from the Mohawks near Albany to the Senecas near Buffalo.

Before Europeans settled upstate in the 1600's, the Five Nations of the Iroquois lived under a constitution that had three main principles: peace, equity or justice and ''the power of the good minds,'' that of the elders over the young, Professor Lyons said.

An Onondaga named Canassatego suggested that the colonists form a nation similar to the Iroquois Confederacy during a meeting of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in Lancaster on June 25, 1744.

One forum to share ideas between the colonists and the Iroquois, in the years leading to the French and Indian War, was the Albany Congress between June 19 and July 9, 1754. At the meeting, representatives of the six Indian nations and seven colonies heard Benjamin Franklin. champion the Iroquois example as he presented his Plan of Union.

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Brain Break: Kaiya and Jalayia

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How do we know that early American colonists and Founding Fathers adopted democratic ideas from the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois?

  • The colonists lived RIGHT NEXT TO the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and saw it in action; they experienced how it worked
  • Tribal history tells us so
  • Colonial history tells us so - Benjamin Franklin brought the Haudensaunee chiefs to present their democracy and how it worked to Founding Fathers. That was how BF came up with his first plan for American Democracy

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Who most often has gotten credit for inspiring U.S. democracy? (what civilization?) Why do you think that is?

  • Ancient Greece is getting credit
  • Colonization (taking over)
  • Europeans get credit (white supremacy)

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In 1754, Franklin met with Colonial and Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) leaders to discuss how the colonies might govern themselves. It was called the Albany Congress. Hendrick, a Mohawk chief, showed them how the Iroquois Confederacy worked. "To illustrate the power of unity," Mr. Tarbell says, "Hendrick used the example the Iroquois used when their nations came together: He held up one arrow and broke it, then held up five arrows bound together and showed how they could not be broken."

The next day, Tarbell notes, Franklin presented a plan for a new American government designed to weld the individual Colonies into a unified whole. It was called the Albany Plan of Union, and it included many features of Iroquois law. -California Indian Education Network

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The U.S. Constitution developed by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson was indeed influenced by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Both models stress the importance of unity and peace and provide freedom to seek out one’s success. Similarities can also be seen in the symbols of each nation. While the Great Law features five arrows bound together as a symbol signifying the unity and strength of the five nations, the seal of the United States uses an eagle clutching a bundle of 13 arrows signifying the 13 original colonies.

The way the U.S. Congress operates is also similar to the actions made by the Grand Council as outlined by the Peacemaker. Within Grand Council meet the Chiefs of each nation which then divide into sections of Elder Brothers and Younger Brothers. This model is very similar to the U.S. Constitution’s two-house congress.

The founding fathers of the United States had ample opportunity to study and learn from the Haudenosaunee. Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers attended treaty councils that brought to life the proceedings of the confederacy. One particular meeting saw Canassatego, the then Chief of the Onondaga, impressing upon the colonists the importance of forming a union of all the colonies.

During 1750 it was clear that the colonist’s ideals were beginning to diverge from those of Europe and Franklin began to look at a new system of government. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy model presented a society free of oppression and definition of class.

June 19, 1754 marked a monumental meeting of the Albany Congress with members from each colony with the Haudenosaunee in attendance. Mohawk Chief Hendrick was asked to explain the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s model. Following the Albany Congress Franklin drew up a plan that had all the British American colonies federated under a single legislature with a president-general who would be appointed by the Crown, a very similar model to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Like the confederacy all states had to agree on a course of action before it could be implemented.

-Haudenosaunee Confederacy (current tribal website)

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What similarities are there between the Haudenosaunee form of government and the United States Government?

What values did the United States adopt from the Haudenosaunee?

  • The use of symbols to represent ideals
  • They made decisions via voting
  • President has executive decision making/order
  • There are 2 Houses
  • The unity of the 2 colonies and states rights
  • The idea of Unity
  • The ideas of no oppression and no division by class were not adopted.

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Who is LIVIN’ our Norms?

Class Norms:

  1. Be engaged and participate (your camera should be ON)

  • Stay on Topic

  • Use your growth mindset
  • Advocate for yourself

Norms Keeper: Noah, Heaven, and Jewel

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Next 2 Weeks at a Glance

Monday

2/8

Tuesday

2/9

Wednesday

2/10

2/11 - 2/17

Thursday

2/18

Types of Government Quiz DUE

Office Hours @ 11:45 and 2:30 (by appointment only)

Asynchronous Mid-Winter Break Work Posted

Mid-Winter Break!

Asynchronous Mid-Winter Break Work DUE

LAUNCH!

Alexis Pauline Gumbs author visit - 11:30-12:00

(come with questions!)

Async Specialist: Eve and Kwesi

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Exit Ticket - If you don’t know, now you know...

Privately CHAT Zo - Why do you think many people do NOT know that the US democracy was modeled after the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois?

*When Zo says your name, you may EXIT...

Learning Target:

I can explain how the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy impacted democracy.

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8.1 Class Jobs

Announcer

JAVON

Attendance Clerk

JACINDA

Audio/Visual Technician

KHORI

Brain Break Lead

KAIYA

Break Monitor

TREVON

Chat Moderator

MCKENZIE

DJ

ZOLA

Do Now Starter

CARTER

Drama Reader

ALEXIS

Greeter

MESSINA

Async. Specialist

EVE

Horticulturist

Catalina

Unmute Moderator

KHALIL

Norms Keeper

NOAH

Pollster

JULIAN

Scribe

WINNIE

Slide Presenter

DONTE’YANNA

Teacher’s Assistant

JAMIA

TA’s Assistant

JARED

Time Supervisor

CHLOE

Veterinarian

BRONWYN

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8.2 Class Jobs

Announcer

HANNA

Attendance Clerk

TYRONE

A/V Technician

Brain Break Lead

JALAYIA

Break Monitor

YONAS

Chat Moderator

TASNIIM

DJ

KELIS

Do Now Starter

ASANTI

Drama Reader

ZURI

Greeter

ANGEL

Async. Specialist

KWESI

Horticulturist

Unmute Moderator

KYREE

Norms Keeper

HEAVEN

JEWEL

Pollster

ALICE

Scribe

CHAISSE

Slide Presenter

SEVEN

Teacher’s Assistant

COLE

TA’s Assistant

ANAYA

Time Supervisor

KADEN

Veterinarian

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8.1 EXIT TICKET EXPERTS

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8.2 EXIT TICKET EXPERTS