Hello! I am James Oglethorpe.
Before I came to Georgia and
started the colony of Savannah I
was a wealthy and powerful man in
England. I wanted to be known as
someone who wanted to make
things better for people. I had
compassion for debtors and
prisoners.
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all blue
words to
learn their
meaning.
• There were not enough jobs in England so I had
an idea to start a colony in North America and
provide land and tools to people who needed it.
• I also made rules that no one could be forced to
work without pay because I thought slavery was
wrong. I believed in liberty for all.
• We set sail for Georgia and arrived 3 months
later in February of 1733.
• We had to cut down trees and build everything in
order to live.
• The new settlement was called Savannah.
This is a plan
that I drew out
for Savannah
before we
started building
• When I came to Savannah I met a
couple of people that became very
good friends to me.
• Mary Musgrove and Tomochichi.
• Tomochichi was a chief of the
Yamacraw Creek and did not speak
English.
• Mary helped Tomochichi and I talk to
each other.
I treated the Georgia
Native American’s with
respect and I was honest
when I traded with them.
Timeline of My Life
1696:
I was
born.
1733:
I settled
in
Savannah
1732:
I sailed to
Georgia
1785: I died
1742:
Georgia’s first
Thanksgiving
Living in the days of colonization
was very different from how you
live today.
• We had very small houses.
• We had to grow our own food or trade with the Creeks.
• We had to make our own clothes.
• We had to hunt animals for meat to eat.
• We did not have electricity for light, heat or air
conditioning.
What was life really like in the
colonial days?
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the
Television
Now go check out this website!
Once you go to the site click on the
highlighted words and learn some more
facts about colonial life. Remember to
think about how it is different from the way
you live your life now.
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• Based on what you have learned so far
write down some facts about how life was
during the colonial time period.
• Now write down some things that you see in
your life that are different.
• Now write down some things
in your life that are similar.
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light to continue
How are we going to compare our
lives?
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There is a way that we can compare and contrast two categories and that is
called a Venn diagram.
In one category you put what makes it different, then the for the other
category you put what makes it different.
In the middle you put what they share. See the diagram below.
Colonial Life
Different
My Life
different
same
Draw two circles into your scrapbook and label them with once circle named
“Colonial Life” and the other circle names “My Life” like the example below.
Colonial Life
•
•
•
My Life
Now fill in the circles with the information that you learned from the video
and website and put them into the correct circle.
Write the things in the correct circle that you see are in your life that are
different from the colonists lives.
Write the things in the correct circle that you see are in both your life and
the colonists lives.
Now that you have compared and
contrasted your life to the colonists
lives...
• you are going to learn how fruit was
preserved for winter months.
• During the winter the weather was very
cold and harsh so we couldn’t grow fruit or
have it shipped to us like you can now.
• Therefore, we had to dry our fruit so we
could eat it later since we needed the
nutrients.
• We are going to be drying fruit to see what the colonists had
to do in order to still have fruit in the winter months. We will be
weighing the apple slices to find out their weight before drying
and after drying.
• Go weigh your apple slice.
• Write in the chart:
– Wow many days you think it will take the apple slice to dry
– What the starting weight is
– How much you think the apple slice will weigh once it has dried.
Once you have made your
predictions answer these questions
in your scrapbook…
How do you think the colonial people ate the apples?
Do you think they ate them dried out or do you think
they ate them some other way?
What would you do if you had to dry your fruit and
then eat it later? How would you eat it?
Click the
apple
when
you are
ready to
move on
Throughout the next couple of
days..
• We will be watching and recording the
progress of our apples as they dry out.
• Once they have dried we will try out
different ways to eat the dried apples and
see which is best to you.
• Then we will discover how the colonists
actually ate their dried fruit.
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