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We will be reading excerpts from this historical fiction to understand what the Jamestown settlers endured to come to the New World.

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Be sure to complete the Vocabulary EXIT TICKET. You can access the Exit ticket from the modiule in Canvas.

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Newsela: The New World: Jamestown and the "Starving Time"

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Newsela: The New World: Jamestown and the "Starving Time"

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Click on the image below to log in to your Newsela account. Read the selection and complete the quiz and the Power Words under activities.

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Tobacco, Rice, Indigo and cotton

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Newsela: Settlement: Jamestown and the founding of English America

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Newsela: Settlement: Jamestown and the founding of English America

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Click on the image below to log in to your Newsela account. Read the selection and complete the quiz.

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Jamestown, established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London as a business venture, was the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia House of Burgesses, established by the 1640s, was the first elected assembly in the New World. It has operated continuously and is known today as the General Assembly of Virginia.

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Social characteristics of the colonies

Social characteristics

The middle colonies were home to multiple religious groups who generally believed in religious tolerance, including Quakers in Pennsylvania, Huguenots and Jews in New York, and Presbyterians in New Jersey. These colonies had more flexible social structures and began to develop a middle class of skilled artisans, entrepreneurs (business owners), and small farmers.

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Economic characteristics of the Colonial Period

The New England colonies developed an economy based on shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming, and eventually, manufacturing. The colonies prospered, reflecting the Puritans’ strong belief in the values of hard work and thrift.

The middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware developed economies based on shipbuilding, small-scale farming, and trading.

Cities such as New York and Philadelphia began to grow as seaports and/or commercial centers.

Southern colonies developed economies in the eastern coastal lowlands based on large plantations that grew “cash crops” such as tobacco, rice, and indigo for export to Europe. Farther inland, however, in the mountains and valleys of the Appalachian foothills, the economy was based on small-scale subsistence farming, hunting, and trading.

A strong belief in private ownership of property and free enterprise characterized colonial life everywhere.

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Video: America the Story of US: Rebels and Revolution - Part 1

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Video: America the Story of US: Rebels and Revolution - Part 1

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Access the video and quiz from the module in Canvas.

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Newsela: The Mayflower Compact: A first step on the road to independence

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Newsela: The Mayflower Compact: A first step on the road to independence

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Click on the image below to log in to your Newsela account. Read the selection and complete the quiz.

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Characteristics of early exploration and settlements in the New World

New England was settled by Puritans seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe. They formed a “covenant community” based on the principles of the Mayflower Compact and Puritan religious beliefs and were often intolerant of those not sharing their religion. They also sought economic opportunity and practiced a form of direct democracy through town meetings.

The Middle Atlantic region was settled chiefly by English, Dutch, and German-speaking immigrants seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity.

Virginia and the other Southern colonies were settled by people seeking economic opportunities. Some of the early Virginia settlers were “cavaliers,” i.e., English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England. Poor English immigrants also came seeking better lives as small farmers or artisans and settled in the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia, or as indentured servants who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a period of time to pay for passage to the New World.

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Newsela: The Great Awakening: A religious revival in the American colonies

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Newsela: The Great Awakening: A religious revival in the American colonies

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Complete the Vocabulary Exit Ticket in Canvas to learn the following words and how they will be used during this module.
political
religious groups
family status
town meeting
Civil War
Philadelphia
representative
social structures
labor shortages
evangelical
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
enslaved Africans
American Revolution
small subsistence farmers
Rhode Island
thrift
eastern coastal
Church of England
religious standing
indentured servants
dissenters
“Great Awakening”
private ownership
fishing
Englishmen