Lesson Plan: Overview

Academic Standards

Standard 8-1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the settlement of South Carolina and the United States by Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.

8-1.2 Categorize events according to the ways they improved or worsened relations between Native Americans and European settlers, including alliances and land agreements between the English and the Catawba, Cherokee, and Yemassee; deerskin trading; the Yemassee War; and the Cherokee War.

8-1.6 Explain how South Carolinians used natural, human, and political resources to gain economic prosperity, including trade with Barbados, rice planting, Eliza Lucas Pinckney and indigo planting, the slave trade, and the practice of mercantilism.

Historical Background Notes

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Materials

• Unidentified artist. Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians, circa 1805, oil on canvas, 35 7/8 x 49 7/8 inches.  Collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art, gift of The Museum Association, Inc.
• Hawkins, Benjamin, to Silas Dinsmoor, 6 January 1799. In C. L. Grant, ed.  Letters, Journals and Writings of Benjamin Hawkins, Volume One, 1796-1801. Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1980.
• Hawkins, Benjamin, to Henry Dearborn, 31 July 1805. In C. L. Grant, ed.  Letters, Journals and Writings of Benjamin Hawkins, Volume Two, 1802-1816. Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1980.
• Hawkins, Benjamin, to John Milledge, 4 August 1805. In C. L. Grant, ed. Letters, Journals and Writings of Benjamin Hawkins, Volume Two, 1802-1816. Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1980.
• "Third Annual Message of President Thomas Jefferson." Addresses, Messages, and Replies by Thomas Jefferson. Available online from Liberty Online. Accessed 2003.

• Severens, Martha R. Greenville County Museum of Art: The Southern Collection.  New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1995.
• Golden Ink. "Benjamin Hawkins: North Georgia Notable." Available online at About North Georgia. Accessed 2003.

• Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians teacher made student worksheet

Lesson Plans

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As a follow up to "Reading a Painting: Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians" students still needed evidence of specifically what Hawkins' relationship was with the Creeks.  This lesson takes one class period of 55 minutes.

1. Students study biographical information to uncover Ben Hawkins’ relationship with the Creek Indians.
2. Hawkins' own writings are then examined for similar information.
3. Students combine their research to reconstruct an understanding of the past.

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Credit

Provided by the Teaching American History in South Carolina Project