Unit 3: The Southeast
The Big Idea
Cities and Growth: The Southeast is experiencing changes that give it one of the fastest-growing populations of any region in the United States today.
What to Know
Your child is studying the geography, the early history, and the cultures of the Southeast region of the United States. In Unit 3, The Southeast, the following essential questions will be discussed.
Home Activities
Extra Credit will be given to students for each activity. Students must submit fully completed activity and documentation of description and/or timeline and discussion of cause and effects for events with parent signature. These activities will be due on the day of the Chapter 7 Test.
Ideas to Discuss
Extra Credit will be given to students for each discussion. Students and parents/guardians must discuss questions and answers, then write an essay response - must be at least one paragraph in length. Students who submit fully completed answer in paragraph form with parent signature by Chapter 7 Test date will earn extra credit points.
Books to Read
Mist Over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People by Raymond Bial. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Nations of the Southeast (Native Nations of North America by Bobbie Kalman. Crabtree Children's Books, 2005.
The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Janis Herbert. Chicago Review Books, 1999.
Cities and Growth: The Southeast is experiencing changes that give it one of the fastest-growing populations of any region in the United States today.
What to Know
Your child is studying the geography, the early history, and the cultures of the Southeast region of the United States. In Unit 3, The Southeast, the following essential questions will be discussed.
- What states make up the Southeast, and why are they grouped together as a region?
- What kinds of land, water, and resources does the Southeast have?
- What were the major causes and effects of the Civil War?
- Why does the Southeast have large farming, shipping, mining, tourism, and high-tech industries?
- How are the Atlantic Coast states, the Gulf Coast states, and Inland South states similar and how are they different?
Home Activities
Extra Credit will be given to students for each activity. Students must submit fully completed activity and documentation of description and/or timeline and discussion of cause and effects for events with parent signature. These activities will be due on the day of the Chapter 7 Test.
- Together with your child study the map on page 4-5 of the textbook. Challenge your child to describe the location of the Southeast in relation to the other four regions of the United States, to Mexico, and to the Atlantic Ocean.
- Work with your child to make a time line that shows the major events described in the unit. Then discuss the time line together. Challenge your child to identify causes and effects of each event.
Ideas to Discuss
Extra Credit will be given to students for each discussion. Students and parents/guardians must discuss questions and answers, then write an essay response - must be at least one paragraph in length. Students who submit fully completed answer in paragraph form with parent signature by Chapter 7 Test date will earn extra credit points.
- How do mountains and coasts affect life in the Southeast?
- Why is the population of the Southeast growing so fast?
- If you could only visit one place in the Southeast on a vacation, where would you go? Explain your choice.
Books to Read
Mist Over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People by Raymond Bial. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Nations of the Southeast (Native Nations of North America by Bobbie Kalman. Crabtree Children's Books, 2005.
The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Janis Herbert. Chicago Review Books, 1999.