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Page 1: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Horses, Guns, and Steel

Jared Peet

Page 2: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Warm Up

• Without using your notes, answer the following questions:– What advantage did horses give Europeans against Native

Americans?– What advantage did guns give Europeans against Native

Americans?– What advantage did steel give Europeans against Native

Americans?• Which one (horses, guns, steel) do you think is the

most important factor in explaining European success?

Page 3: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Today’s Essential Question

• Were horses, guns and steel decisive factors for why Europeans were able to conquer the Americas?

Decisive - producing a definite result.

Page 4: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Objectives

• Analyze the validity of Diamond’s claims that Guns and Steel were decisive factors in the Europeans conquest of the Americas by writing a paragraph

Page 5: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Structured Academic ControversyI. Partners Prepare (25 minutes)

a. Find evidence to support your side of the argument. Craft position.b. Fill out your evidence sheet with quotes and explanations of how those quotes

support your argument. II. Position Presentation (10 minutes)

a. Side A presents their position using supporting evidence from the texts. Side B takes notes on Side A’s presentation. (3 minutes)b. Side B restates Side A’s arguments to Side A’s satisfaction. (2 minute)c. Side B presents their position using supporting evidence from the texts. Side A takes notes on Side B’s presentation (3 minutes)d. Side A restates Side B’s arguments to Side B’s satisfaction. (2 minute)

III. Consensus-Building (5 minutes)

a. Abandon roles.b. Build consensus regarding the question (or at least clarify where your differences lie), using supporting evidence.c. List the points you can build consensus around on the back of your evidence

sheet.

Page 6: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Class Debrief

• What do you think – were horses, guns, and steel decisive factors in the European conquest of the Americas?

Page 7: Horses, Guns, and Steel Jared Peet. Warm Up Without using your notes, answer the following questions: – What advantage did horses give Europeans against

Exit Ticket

• Write an AWESOME body paragraph on ONE POINT that answers the question: Were horses, guns and steel decisive factors for why Europeans were able to conquer the Americas?– Example A Topic Sentence: Horses were a decisive

factor for why Europeans were able to conquer the Americas because . . .

– Example B Topic Sentence: Horses were not a decisive factor for why Europeans were able to conquer the Americas because . . .