8th Grade Learning Objectives: Students will “summarize how European exploration linked the Americas to other parts of the world,” they will “identify the reasons Spain started colonies in the Americas,” they will “describe the Columbian Exchange and how it affected people from Europe, Africa, and the Americas,” and they will “explain why European powers engaged in the slave trade between West African societies and European colonies.”
HW for 7th and 8th Grade--Parent Signatures by Friday.