Unit+2-+Early+Chicago

=From Swamp to City=

Chicago Flag Lesson- || **City of Big Shoulders- Ch. 1 & 2 &3** **1820-2000** || Sept. 26 || Father Marquette and Louis Joliet were the first Europeans to come through Chicago and they liked what they saw. media type="file" key="Marquette Joliet.mp4" width="300" height="300" But all was not easy. In total, they paddled thousands of miles and would have failed without the help of the Native Americans. =media type="file" key="marquette winter.mp4" width="300" height="300"=
 * **Dates** || **II. Unit Two: From Swamp to City: 1673-1848 (2 1/2 Weeks)** || **Reading** ||
 * Wed. & Thurs. Sept.. 24 & 25 || A. Working with time- Timeline of Chicago’s History- PST Lesson 4 and Chicago History Cards /Deck (1-2)
 * Timeline from the Encyclopedia of Chicago** **1630-1818**
 * Friday,

. Marquette and Joliet- Joliet Map Site and Situation and the founding PP and Portage Material (3) Friends of the Chicago Portage || The Year 1795 Four Corners- Listen to this radio program on Chicago's most important intersection || Sept. 30 || “ First People’s First Encounters” Portage Unit Three Without Native Americans, would we have Chicago as we know it? Cahokia Article Washington Post North America's First City Cahokia Mounds Cahokia Adventure Where the name Chicago comes from. Cahokia Decline Do Native Americans still live in Chicago? || || 1. Early Traders/trappers and settlers- Dusable, Beaubien, Kinzie,and (5) || Fur Trade TransAtlantic Networks || Later Settlement of Native Americans media type="custom" key="21799440" || Chicago Mag Reading The Year 1812 || Oct. 8 & 9 || b. The Canal- the federal and state gov role || Canal Shapes History Water in Chicago A History of the Canal in Song
 * Mon., Sept. 29 || C. Native American Presence on the land- First Encounters (4) || Indian Trails ||
 * Tuesday,
 * Wed., Oct. 1 || D. Frontier Chicago- From no place to some place
 * Thurs., Oct. 2 || a. War of 1812 and Fort Dearborn Massacre (6)
 * Fri. Oct. 3 || b. Life in the early city- Prairie Town and early government- Pre-incorporation (Prairie Tides) || Black Hawk’s Footsteps ||
 * Mon. Oct. 6 || 2. Transportation in the early city || [[file:The I&M Canal- The Past and the Present.pdf]] ||
 * Tues. Oct. 7 || a. Roads, Trains, and the I&M Canal (10-11) || I&M Canal Adventure ||
 * Wed. and Thurs.,



City of the Century Part One || Oct. 14 || **Unit Two Test** || ||
 * Tues.