Tuesday, September 17, 2013

9/16/13

Today we examined the first American colonies.  The attached PowerPoint presentation walks you through the lesson.

Our First Colonies Lesson

Students first read about Jamestown in the textbook on pages 87-88.  As they read the section they filled out the graphic organizer.

Pages 87-88

Our First Colonies Graphic Organizer

We then discussed the information on Jamestown. 

Next, students chose a number of readings about different colonies.  The number of readings varies based on the level of social studies class they plan to take next year (see PowerPoint for details.)

 Colony Readings

For the rest of class, students read and recorded information onto their graphic organizers.  On Tuesday we will finish the readings and students will answer the question below in one paragraph:


Which North American colony deserves to be recognized and celebrated as being our first sett
 There is no homework tonight.

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