November 30

Good afternoon, boys and girls.

Today we're going to talk about our social studies weekly,

and we're also going to talk about Advent.

You know that this begins the Catholic year and it

is represented by the color purple, and the season is

known as Advent.

That is when we prepare our hearts and minds for

Christ. Oftentimes we have an advent candle that we liked.

And I will be lighting the candle now and hopefully

will not experience the same thing that I did last

year when I caught my hair on fire.

So hopefully I will be better prepared for that.

This time.

I had hoped that we would be able to be

together to celebrate Advent and that you would be the

readers each day.

That was my hope.

But it didn't work out the way that we planned.

So we make a new plan and I will be

sharing with you Scripture and a prayer for Advent.

Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign.

Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son.

And you shall call his name Immanuel.

This is from the Book of Isaiah.

Chapter seven, Verse 14 found in the Old Testament.

Long before anyone had ever heard about Jesus, God made

a promise to his Children.

I will send someone to save the world, he said.

The world needed saving because it's people did things that

make God unhappy.

But those people belonged to God.

They were his Children.

He didn't want to punish them for the bad things

that they did.

So God made a plan to send his son Jesus

to save the world, and God's plan was perfect.

He planned to send Jesus into the world as a

baby, and when Jesus grew up, he would teach the

people how God wanted them to live.

Jesus would love the people so much that he would

take all the punishment that they deserved forever.

God's promise came with an extra special surprise.

Everyone who believed in Jesus would get toe live in

heaven with one day with Jesus and God.

And the best part is that God's promise was not

just for the people long ago.

His promise is for you.

Let's pray together in the name of the Father and

the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Dear Father, it makes me happy that you love me

thank you for always keeping your promises.

Help me to keep my promises to human.

I hope that you enjoy many different ways to celebrate

the Advent season with your family as we move through

the days leading up to the celebration of the birth

of our savior, Jesus.

Now we're going to change gears a little bit and

we're going to look at our studies weekly.

This one is weak.

Eight. And it's entitled Explorers in Indiana.

For the next three weeks, we're going to be learning

about Explorers and in the not just in Indiana, but

explorers all over the world.

So let's, um, look at this together.

Open it up.

Explorers in Indiana.

Mhm. Sorry, I had a little hitch in my get

along there.

So we're looking at Week eight and we're looking explorers

in Indiana.

We also will be looking at Explorers that did not

come to Indiana.

And, as you know, Christopher Columbus came first.

Well, Christopher Columbus is credited with coming first.

We've talked about he's credited with it because he wrote

about it, and then he went back and told about

it, and he shared that with everybody, and so he

kind of got a big credit for exploring the New

World. But as we learned on our read Works article

today, there's evidence that people were here, even even European

people were here before Columbus was here.

So, you know, there was no Indiana.

This world that we live in right now had lots

of different names that were given by the indigenous people

that were here.

So it was not called Indiana.

But we're going to talk a little bit about people

who came to Indiana.

So if you will turn and look on that center

section that we always read together Explorers in Indiana, we

will start.

And just a reminder.

Thank you for tracking that.

What? That helps you to learn new vocabulary and to

be able to know the spelling and pronunciation of words

you may not.

Otherwise, no.

The first people who explored and settled in America and

Indiana came here for different reasons.

Some came here looking for gold.

Others came to get rich.

Others, like the pilgrims, came here searching for a place

to worship God in their own way.

Some came to America hoping to find freedom from ah

government that they thought was unfair, and a few even

came here hoping to find some good health and long

life. This week, we'll look at several different explorers whose

settlers to discover what they hoped to find when they

came to America in Indiana.

And they're beginning at the beginning of what was written

about exploration with Columbus.

When Columbus set out on his journey across the ocean,

he hoped to find a new way to get to

the Far East.

If this plan work, Spain would have a new way

to get to China, and sailors could sail west and

bring back all kinds of gold and spices and silks

to sell in Europe.

Columbus didn't realize that North and South America were walking

the way.

Can you imagine all the years that people lived in

Europe and Asia and Africa and Australia not really having

any idea about the's huge, huge continents that they were

sharing the world with?

That's just amazing to think about, So Columbus came looking

for a new route to get to the things that

used to be traded on the Silk Road.

Then there was another explorer named Ponce de Leon Ponce.

De Leon was also a Spanish sailor and wasn't unusual

explorer because he didn't sail west looking for gold or

freedom or honor.

He came looking for a way to stay young forever.

Ponce de Leon had heard legends that stories that may

or may not be true about something called the Fountain

of Youth.

The Fountain of Youth was a spring that was supposed

to make anyone who drank from it stay young and

healthy forever.

He explored the Bahamas searching for this famous spring, and

instead of finding the fountain of youth, Ponce de Leon

became the first European to explore Florida.

Then you have Jacques Cartier.

Now he is from France.

So we had Columbus, who was Italian.

But he sailed for Spain.

We have who was Spanish.

And now we have Cartier, who is French.

Jacques Cartier celled northwest from France, hoping to find a

new trade route to Asia.

So he had the same thing on his mind.

A trade route is a pathway that could be used

for traders to bring their goods back and forth.

Like Columbus, Cartier wanted to find a new way to

get all the wealth and riches that could be found

in China.

and all the other Asian countries.

Cartier landed near the mouth of the ST Lawrence River.

He thought that if he sailed up the river, he

would reach the open sea.

And he hoped to reach Asia by using that waterway,

the ST Lawrence River, in 15 34.

Now Columbus sailed in 14 92.

So we have several years have passed by now.

And in 15 34 Cartier sailed up the Lawrence River

and found that oops, it never reached the ocean.

Matter of fact, it really didn't even come close.

His plans to sail to China were blocked by the

American continent.

The whole thing.

He never found his trade route.

But he claimed the area that he found Quebec for

France just the way that Ponce de Leon claimed Florida

for Spain.

In the early 15 hundreds, a French explorer, Jacques Cartier,

discovered the ST Lawrence River because he was the first

to discover the area around the ST Lawrence River.

Cartier Cartier claimed all the land for France.

The French government named this land New France in 16

03 So that's quite a bit.

After 15 early 15 hundreds, Samuel de Champlain came here

to govern or to take charge of this new territory.

He also spent much of his time exploring the land

around the ST Lawrence River.

Champlain encouraged the French, who are already in New France

toe learn American Indian languages and to try to get

along with the Native Americans.

Once a man named LaSalle had explored Indiana in 16

79 French fur traders and explorers came here looking for

animal furs and fur hides to take back to France.

Um, why?

Why would they want to find animals here to take

back to France?

Well, there was a very popular, um, hats that were

made out of this very, um, soft, soft, warm beaver

fur. And they were the height of fashion.

And everybody wanted one and takes a lot of beavers

to give everybody the kind of happy that they want.

That's what they were looking for.

And here in America, one of the things that they

were looking for.

So they took the furs back to France and England,

and Holland and Russia and Spain for was very popular

in these countries.

During the 17 hundreds and 18 hundreds, it was used

for hats and coats and as a trim on many

other types of clothing, thes for traders built forts and

you know what those are?

And they trapped beavers and other small animals for their

fur. They also traded items like muskets, which are long

guns, beads and blankets to the American Indians for mink,

beaver and otter for that could be sold in Europe.

The first settlers came to America and Indiana for many

different reasons.

Those who had the courage to stay did their best

to make their dreams come true here in a new

and sometimes frightening land.

It was frightening because many of the Native Americans came

to trade.

But not all.

Um, some of the American Native Americans fought with the

people who came, and you can imagine that them being

fearful of them when we think about things in terms

of history, I often tried Thio give a picture of

the explorers and what they wanted and what they came

for. Generally speaking, just to give you an idea, if

you look at your map, you will see that the

people came from Spain into Central America and went down

into South America and came up into North America through

the countries that through the places that lie on the

bottom of the United States, they were usually searching for

land for Spain, but primarily for gold, and also to

convert the Native American population and people that they met

to Catholicism's to becoming a Catholic.

The people in England came across to the eastern side

of America, and they were often times just wanting to

get the land, wanting to get the new land and

to make their living and to seek their fortune on

new land because things were crowded, very crowded at that

time in England.

And then lastly, the French came over into the Maurin,

the north part of the continent, and they were a

little bit different.

Instead of pushing the Native Americans all off their land

or fighting as much with the Native Americans, oftentimes they

tried to work with the Native Americans, tried to learn

to speak the languages and tried to learn.

Really, How do you go about this business of trapping

these animals and curing these furs?

And so they tried to live with them and they

tried to work with them?

Did every French explorer try to do that.

I don't imagine so and the same with the others.

But we're talking about that turn, general, which means often

or usually so don't forget about that, but getting an

idea. And when you have a chance to look at

your atlas in your planner and take a look at

Spain, Fine, Spain and look at how the boats would

have had to travel to get to Central America.

And then they went up and down and really, they

were conquering people.

They were really, um, taking over the land and taking

over the people.

And then England came across mostly to the eastern seaboard

and down.

And then the French came across into the North America

and then started coming down in America.

So at the time after the continent had set for

how, how long with these indigenous people And now, suddenly

there people coming across the ocean from everywhere and, um,

they're bringing things that the Indians liked the guns, the

beads, horses, um, sheep.

And then they brought things that destroyed much of the

Indian population, which was disease.

So just be thinking about those things and pondering about

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