Unit #1- United Stated Colonial Settlement
Lesson #1- Population
THE ROANOKE COLONY
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Activating StrategyThink- 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.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
DO NOW 9-4-15
1) 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
Vocabulary
1) 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 colony
3) Settlements-an act of populating an area
4) Indentured Servants- people who paid their
way to the new world by agreeing to work for a
number of years.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
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.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
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.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Timeline Continued
2) 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.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
Timeline Continued
5) Fall 1587White’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.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
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.
Lesson #1 Population: Roanoke
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.
Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
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.
Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
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.
Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
Timeline1) 1609
2) 1610
3) 1614
4) 1614-1619
5) 1619
6) Sometime after 1619.
Lesson #1 Population: Jamestown
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.
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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.
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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.
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
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
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
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!!!
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
Make a T-Chart like this one
Similarities
Differences
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
Jamestown and Plymouth- SIMILARITIES
 Both groups of colonist came from England
 Both built forts for protection
 Both built small houses like they had in England
 Both brought language, customs and laws from
England.
 Both had many struggles adapting to the New
World.
 Both were involved in farming
 Both had a part in forming a government in the
New World.
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
Jamestown and Plymouth- DIFFERENCES
 Jamestown 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.
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower Compact???
Mayflower Compact
Focus Question page 10
What 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.
Lesson #1 Population: Plymouth Colony