Lesson #1- Population THE ROANOKE COLONY Unit #1- United Stated Colonial Settlement.

Lesson #1- Population

THE ROANOKE COLONY

Unit #1- United Stated Colonial Settlement

Lesson #1 Population: RoanokeActivating Strategy- Think- what does the term “colonial settlement” mean??

Pair- Discuss your ideas with the person sitting next to you.

Share your response with the class.

Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke

“ Roanoke: The Lost Colony” By Jane Yolen.Look at page #2 in your Colonization of America Packet.Fill in the chart as I read the book to you.1) Write facts from the book in this column.2) Write any questions that you might

have in the “Questions” column.3) Write any inferences you could make

from the information presented and your prior knowledge.


DO NOW 9-4-151) Take a piece of paper from the

middle of your table. 2) Place your name in the upper

right hand corner.3) Explain why people wanted to

leave their homeland in Europe and come to the New World. Use details to support your answer. (This will be graded)

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Lesson #1-Population: Roanoke

Vocabulary1) Colony- a group of people who paid who have settled in a new country and are still subject to the mother country.2) Colonists- a member of a colony3) Settlements-an act of populating an area4) Indentured Servants- people who paid their way to the new world by agreeing to work for a number of years.


Read page 3 and 4 in your lesson packet.

Distribute the handout with the five theories of what happened to the Roanoke Colony.

Arrange students in like groups to discuss their theory and formulate an answer to focus questions.


Timeline- Using the information from the reading on page 3-4 to complete at least 6 entries on your timeline.

1) 1584- Queen Elizabeth I gives Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to establish a colony in North America.


Timeline Continued2) 1584- Sir Walter Raleigh and 100 men set sail for North America.3) 1585- Sir Francis Drake visits the colony and finds the colonists malnourished and he takes them back to England. 4) Spring1587- John White guides a second group of settlers including men, women, and children. This included his own daughter who was pregnant.


Timeline Continued5) Fall 1587- White’s daughter gives birth to first child born in the English colony.The colonists are not prepared for the new world and they convince John White to return to England for supplies. 6) 1590- It takes three years for White to return to the Roanoke colony. When he returns, everyone is gone.


Time to write !!!!! Yippppeeeee!!!

Assignment- Pretend you are John White. The year is 1591. You have just returned to the Roanoke Colony. You are totally shocked at what you find once you reach the colony. Write an entry in your journal describing in great detail, what you have seen or experienced.


DO NOW 9-10-15

Make sure that your name is on your homework and get ready to turn in to Mr. Fisher.

I want you to find a partner that is not at your table and share your journal entry with one another.

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Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown

Focus Question: What happened as a result of the British settlement at Jamestown?

Read Page 7 in your table group. Each person should read a paragraph.

Answer the first question on page 8.


Summarize the selection on Jamestown.

The Jamestown colony grew in1609 when men and women arrived. Tobacco became an important cash crop. Many slaves were brought to the colony in order to farm the land.


What happened as a result of the British settlement at Jamestown?

At the Jamestown colony, John Rolfe planted tobacco as a cash crop. Tobacco requires mostly hand labor and workers were needed. In order to attract colonist, the Virginia Company promised to pay their expenses. Later in 1619, slaves were brought to the colony in order to work the tobacco fields.


Timeline- 1) 16092) 16103) 16144) 1614-16195) 16196) Sometime after 1619.


DO NOW 9-15-15- Have your homework out and ready to be checked.

Review your answers to the homework while I check each student.


1) 1609- Women and children arrive in Jamestown.2) 1610- John Rolfe introduced tobacco as a crop in the Jamestown colony.3) 1614- Rolfe harvested his first crop of West Indies tobacco in Virginia, it was a huge success.


4) 1614-1619 – Tobacco became Virginia’s cash crop. 5) 1619- A Dutch ship exchanged 20 African captives who became indentured servants.6) Later, African arrivals were sold and enslaved for the rest of their lives.

Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony

Do Now- Have your packet opened to page 9 and ready to go.

What do you remember about the Colony of Jamestown.


While watching this video, think about the each of the colonies, how were they similar? How were they different?

Take some notes to help you out !!!

Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies

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Do NOW 9-17-15

Please take out your T-Chart and information on the Plymouth Colony.

You have a quiz on the three colonies tomorrow!!!


Make a T-Chart like this one

SimilaritiesDifferences


Jamestown and Plymouth- SIMILARITIESBoth groups of colonist came from EnglandBoth built forts for protectionBoth built small houses like they had in

EnglandBoth brought language, customs and laws

from England.Both had many struggles adapting to the

New World.Both were involved in farmingBoth had a part in forming a government

in the New World.


Jamestown and Plymouth- DIFFERENCESJamestown was in Virginia in 1607

and Plymouth was in Massachusetts in 1620

Jamestown colonists came for gold and the Plymouth colonist came for religious purposes

Jamestown colonists farmed tobacco while the Plymouth colonists farmed crops, pigs and cows.


What is the Mayflower Compact???Mayflower Compact

Focus Question page 10What exactly did the settler hope to accomplish with the Mayflower Compact?

Answer: they wanted to make sure that there were laws and they were applied equally to both religious groups since there was no law in place. This was the colonist first try at self-government.

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Lesson #1- Population THE ROANOKE COLONY Unit #1- United Stated Colonial Settlement.

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