Jump Start #4, 9/4/153 minute Quick Write

Describe, in detail, the best meal you’ve ever eaten. • What ingredients are in it?• Is it homemade or from a restaurant?• Do you eat it at breakfast, lunch, or dinner?• What makes this meal your favorite?

Building Background

1. Glue the reading into your journal.

2. Read and HIGHLIGHT the answers to the following:A. What three main things were exchanged between the

Old World and New World?B. What might be 1-2 benefits to this exchange?C. What might be 1-2 negatives of this exchange? D. Why were so many natives eradicated (killed off) as

an effect of this exchange?

Columbian Exchange

• Main points and questions:• What is the Columbian Exchange?• What were the causes and effects?• What were some of the items brought back and

forth?

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• The exchange of plants, animals and diseases between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (Americas)

What were the causes of the Columbian Exchange?

• Europeans crossing the Atlantic Ocean to create new settlements in the New World.

What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange?

• Different foods• Exchange of foods, animals and plants

created better lives• Diets change for the better = longer

life expectancy• Economics

• Ranching, cotton and coffee would not be possible

What were the effects of the Columbian Exchange?

• Native Americans did not have any natural resistance to European diseases.

• Smallpox, measles, influenza, and malaria killed millions.

Effects on Europeans• Imagine Italian food with no tomatoes!

• Europeans had never seen tomatoes. • Tomatoes were believed to

be poisonous!

Jump Start #5, 9/8/153 Minute Quick-write

Describe the Columbian Exchange.

Some questions to guide your thinking - • What is the Columbian Exchange?• What were the causes and effects?

Remember Jump Starts are quietly completed by yourself unless told to work with a partner!

Columbian Exchange Menu Project – Pre-AP

• You are going to create a restaurant menu that existed BEFORE the Columbian Exchange.

• You must include:• Entrees• Appetizers• Drinks• Kids Meals• Side Dishes• Desserts• If you think of another category, let me know!

• Be as creative as you want! Make sure to use only the foods found on your side of the world!

Columbian Exchange Menu Project – Pre-AP

• Include a thorough description of each item in complete sentences.

• You need a picture (in COLOR) of each menu item. • I am not supplying printing capabilities.

• On the back of your menu you are to complete the question and justify your opinion. This should be written in paragraph form.

Columbian Exchange Menu Project - OL

• You are going to create a restaurant menu that existed BEFORE the Columbian Exchange.

• You must include 3 or more of the following:• Entrees• Appetizers• Drinks• Kids Meals• Side Dishes• Desserts• If you think of another category, let me know!

• Be as creative as you want! Make sure to use only the foods found on your side of the world!

Columbian Exchange Menu Project – Pre-AP

• Include a thorough description of each item in complete sentences.

• You need a picture (in COLOR) of each menu item. • I am not supplying printing capabilities.

• On the back of your menu you are to answer the following questions incomplete sentences.• Which side of the world would your group have preferred to

live? Be sure to defend you answer with specific examples• Explain 2 positive and 2 negative effects of the Columbian

Exchange.