By Miss O.
What do you
NOTICE?
What do you
KNOW?
What
QUESTIONS
do you have?
List the
reasons
why:
What words
do you not
know that
you find on
the page?
Why was putting a
colony in Virginia
important for
England?
•Capital city of England
•England is also known as
Great Britain (today
United Kingdom)
Parliament Building
 Some men in London wanted
to send settlers to Virginia,
but none of them was rich
enough to start a colony by
himself.
 So all of them put their
money together and owned
a little part of the company.
 This little part of a company
is called a “share” or “stock.”
Virginia Company’s “official” seal from the
King (after they got their charter)
 The Virginia Company of
London wanted to send
men to Virginia to find gold
and make money for their
company.
 If they could make money
from their colony in
Virginia, their company
would become wealthy!!
 Ruling monarch of England after Queen
Elisabeth died
 He claimed that Virginia belonged to him,
because he was England’s king.
 England wanted to establish an American colony to
increase its wealth and power.
They hoped to find silver and A colony in America could
gold.
furnish raw materials that
could not be grown or
obtained in England.
A colony in America would
open new markets for trade.
Why would King
James say “Yes”!?
 1. England
hoped to
find silver
and gold in
America.
Tobacco
Lumber
 3. England wanted
to open new
markets for trade.
 Raw materials
from the Virginia
 to other
countries that
don’t have much
 England gets all
the $ or stuff from
other countries in
return!
 King James grants
the Virginia
Company a charter.
 This charter gave
permission to start
a colony along the
Chesapeake Bay
area.
 Listening Quiz
 The following advertisements were found in
British newspapers in the early years of the
Jamestown settlement (1607-1612). Work with
a partner to list at least 3 ideas in each part of
the graphic organizer.
What do you
notice?
What do you
know?
What
reasons are
given to go?
Is the ad
What
successful in questions do
convincing? you have?
Why or why
not?
 What effects did these advertisements cause between
the years of 1607-1612? What happened because of
them?
 How are these advertisements similar and different
from one another?
 Which of the 5 advertisements do you think is the best
or most convincing to get people to go to Jamestown?
 What realities were left out about the conditions in
Jamestown?
 What changes might you have made to make these
advertisements more convincing or compelling?
 Each student will design an advertisement poster,
entreating volunteers to sign up for the voyage to
Virginia for the purpose of finding riches and
establishing a permanent settlement. Posters must be
include the three reasons for colonization, be colorful,
include at least 4 other facts, and be persuasive.
 Today, all three of them
would look very small
to us, but they were
strong and could ride
the storms across the
Atlantic Ocean.
Glue your ship coloring picture in
your VA Studies Notebook.
 Largest of the 3
http://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=xGDc724No2M
&safety_mode=true&pers
ist_safety_mode=1&safe=
active
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwo
_DiPCDM&safety_mode=true&persist_s
afety_mode=1&safe=active
 Smallest of the 3
 http://apva.org/red
iscovery/page.php?
page_id=31
What do you
NOTICE?
What do you
KNOW?
What
QUESTIONS do
you have?
 The stockholders hoped
to make a lot of money for
themselves and
England—that’s the
economic part.
 A venture is a business
that is risky or
dangerous. The
stockholders found 104
men willing to go on this
trip.
•Ship captain of the “fleet”
that took the English
settlers to Jamestown in
1607.
•Famous for sailing with Sir
Francis Drake in many sea
battles against the Spanish.
•Lost his right arm in battle
(the “real” Captain Hook)
http://www.captainchristophernewp
ort.com/
 Known as the Admiral of
Virginia
 Came back on numerous
voyages to Jamestown to resupply the starving colonists
 Later, When the Sea Venture
was shipwrecked on
Bermuda during a
hurricane, Newport
organized 150 colonists to
build two new vessels for
their deliverance to
Jamestown.
A Virginia
college is
named after
him today!
The settlers first
landed at Cape
Henry, which is
today’s Virginia
Beach.
1. Unfriendly Indians
2. Rough water (ocean
waves crashing) 
difficult for ships to
dock
3. Instructions (from
the charter) told the
settlers to go inland
and find a suitable
place for their colony.
 In 1607, when
settlers arrived,
Jamestown was
located on a narrow
peninsula
bordered on 3 sides
by the James River.
1. easily
defended
from attack
by sea by the
Spanish.
2. The water
along the
shore was
deep enough
for ships to
dock.
•harbor
3. They
believed they
had a good
supply of
fresh water.
• Why would the
settlers have
made a palisade?
• What natural
resources would
they have used
to make the
palisade walls?
• woven lattice of wooden
strips called wattle is daubed
with a sticky material usually
made of some combination of
wet soil, clay , sand, animal
dung and straw.
 Became the first permanent English settlement in North
America in 1607.