A Treaty Has Been Signed!

In Social Studies, we are still learning about important people in Early Georgia. We are currently learning about Tomochichi, the Yamacraw Native American who formed an alliance with James Oglethorpe.

Today we talked about the word "treaty" and what it means. We learned that James Oglethorpe and Tomochichi signed a treaty agreeing to peace between the English and the Yamacraw.

To really understand what a treaty is, we created our own treaty today. Half of the class was the Yamacraw tribe and the other half were English settlers. Each group came up with conditions they wanted, and we reconvened to decide what we wanted to put in our very own treaty.

This activity really fostered taking turns speaking, working in groups, and higher order thinking. They had to work hard to think of things either the Yamacraw or English would find important in a treaty.

Here are the groups working on their "wants" for the treaty!