AMERICAN HISTORY-BARTLETT
MONDAY: LABOR DAY
TUESDAY: TSW continue to discuss early colonization. TSW continue to discuss the early Jamestown colony and the difficulties they initially faced. TSW be able to name the important people of the colony and those that helped Jamestown begin to thrive. TSW be watch a brief video clip over the Jamestown colony and understand how tobacco and John Rolfe turned the doomed colony to a thriving one. How did slavery come to play in this colony? TSW watch to answer: How did Jamestown set the stage for the arrival and success of the impending 13 colonies?
If time permits, TSW participate in a gallery walk over the 13 colonies. TSW use their phones to unlock information about the colonies with the QR codes.
CLOSING: Think, Pair Share: What was characteristic of the physical geography of New England, the Middle colonies and the Southern Colonies and how did that affect economic activities in each region? (IF TIME PERMITS….. STUDENTS WILL RETRUN TO THEIR TABLES TO DISCUSS AND DRAW UP THEIR IDEAS ON POSTER PAPER TO SHARE).
Wednesday: TSW continue to examine the 13 colonies via Q R codes. TSW be able to describe the characteristic of the physical geography of the New England, the Middle colonies and the Southern Colonies and how that affected economic activities in each region? TSW be able to answer: What was characteristic of population patterns in the American colonies? What was characteristic of the human environment interactions in the American colonies?
CONTINUE CLOSING: Think, Pair Share: What was characteristic of the physical geography of New England, the Middle colonies and the Southern Colonies and how did that affect economic activities in each region? (IF TIME PERMITS….. STUDENTS WILL RETRUN TO THEIR TABLES TO DISCUSS AND DRAW UP THEIR IDEAS ON POSTER PAPER TO SHARE).
Thursday & Friday- TSW discuss the religious and social patterns of the colonies. TSW be able to answer: How were the daily lives of colonists different depending on where they lived? What contributions were made by women to the development of the American colonies? What was characteristic of religious patterns in the American colonies? TSW discuss the leaders who had been influenced by Enlightenment ideas and how they formed representative governments in the American Colonies. TSW discuss how the colonist became use to governing themselves and how they began to think they could do it full time. TSW discuss the impact the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers had on leaders in the American colonies.
Closing: Name the specific steps that were taken in the American colonies to establish a representative government.
Homework: (Due Monday September 11th) -TSW develop an illustrated timeline that features the steps taken in the American colonies to establish representative governments. The timeline should include dates, illustrations and explanations of 4 events.The student will write and answer this question at the bottom of their timeline.Why was a representative government important for the American colonists?
Test over Colonization- Over Roanoke, Jamestown and the 13 colonies- Wednesday September 13th.
Group Project-Colonization Museum Exhibit
TSW create a museum exhibit of 5 artifacts that illustrate daily life in the colonies. For each of the items selected for the exhibit a written explanation of how that item relates to colonial life in the Americas is required. The exhibit should include items that represent daily life of women as well as men. TSW use as many vocabulary words that are applicable in the written explanation.
We will be working on this as an ongoing project within selected groups. Students can utilize a set amount of class time, tutorials (AM & PM) and during Primetime to complete. (Due September 19th).
QUESTIONS you should be able to answer by Friday or sooner
Roanoke:
Why is this referred to as the “Lost Colony?”
What present-day state is Roanoke in?
Who was the first European born in “The New World?”
What county in N.C. is named after this child?
Who was the Queen that approved Sir Walter Raleigh’s request to send 116 people to colonize over in the “New World?”
What caused the delay in John White returning to Roanoke with the supplies he originally left for?
Jamestown:
What was the name of the join-stock company formed by some wealthy English investors in 1606, that planned to establish a colony in the “New World?”
What did these investors believe was over in the “New World?”
Who was the King that gave the charter to the London Company to start a colony in Virginia? Is there any relation to the name of the colony and the king?
How much did the investors spend to organize the expedition?
What were the name of the 3 ships that left for the voyage?
How many people initially left England on the voyage? Why do you think there were only males on this first trip?
How long did it take to voyage across the Atlantic?
How many arrived at the coast of Virginia on April 26th 1607? Why?
Why did Captain Christopher Newport choose to take the fleet up the peninsula?
What were some of the early issues with the Jamestown colony once they arrived?
Captain John Smith became in charge of the colony, what did he convince the original colonist and the new colonist being sent over to do during that second year?
Who claimed to have been captured by the Powhatan Indian chief?
How did he supposedly escape death? (Who helped him?, explain…)
After John Smith returned to England due to his wounds, Jamestown began to go through the “Starving Time”. What was this and the reasons to this? How many men were left at this time?
What brought a ‘turn around’ to the Jamestown colony?
What were the first farm ‘products’ to be raised successfully at Jamestown?
What were some early industries at Jamestown?
Who was John Rolfe and how did he give a boost to the colonies economic standing?
Why were white indentured servants needed? Why were black indentured servants needed and what were they to gain by coming to the colony?
Why were the black indentured servants replaced with slaves?
When were women eventually sent to settle in the colony? Why?
What monumental step toward a new type of governing was established in 1619?
THE 13 COLONIES:
What are the 13 colonies? Name them…..
Describe the characteristics of the physical geography of the New England, the Middle colonies and the Southern Colonies and how that affected economic activities in each region?
What were the religious and social patterns of the colonies?
How were the daily lives of colonists different depending on where they lived?
What contributions were made by women to the development of the American colonies?
What was characteristic of religious patterns in the American colonies?
Who were the leaders who had been influenced by Enlightenment ideas and how did they formed representative governments in the American Colonies?
How did the colonist begin to start the idea of selfgoverning?-What made them think they could do it full0-time (or ongoing)?
Discuss the impact the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers had on leaders in the American colonies?
Name the specific steps that were taken in the American colonies to establish a representative government.
Why was a representative government important for the American colonists?
CAN YOU EXPLAIN MERCANTILISM AND ITS CONNECTION TO EUROPEAN COLONIZATION?