Early Colonies Meet-Greet: Jamestown vs Plymouth

Meet-and-Greet Class Activity
1. Create the chart in your notebook. Only write the text in BOLD.
2. Read silently the text about your colony. Raise your hand if you have any questions.
3. Fill in the chart with keywords.

Reasons for Immigrating Why did you go to Jamestown/Plymouth?

Exotic parrots, agriculture

4. Check answers with partner.
5. Meet-and-greet. Move around the room and meet colonists from the other colony.

• Ask questions IN PAIRS
• Ask one question and record keywords in your chart.
• Oral questions and answers must be complete sentences.

6. Class Venn-diagramm

Settlements Document

Underline and number
1. Reasons for the settlement
2. Relations with Native Americans
3. Successes/failures
4. How the government worked
5. Location/how it looked

Comparison chart

Completed

Packing for Jamestown
What personal items should I pack for my journe y to Jamestown?
Draw a picture of your trunk and the items you will take to Jamestown.
What items should I take to trade with the Powhatan?

audio - hardships

Role Play Lesson

After Roanoke, they said you were crazy,
I said I'm going off to the Jamestown Colony,
Located down in Chesapeake,
I said "Ooh-ooh-hoo,"
It's the Jamestown Colony,

The Virginia Company,
Sent the Susan Constant, Discovery,
And Godspeed to start a colony,
Oh, this would be Virginia,
If it didn't kill ya,

Nobody worked,
Everyone looking for gold,
'Til John Smith stood up and said,

Oh don't you dare prospect then think you'll eat for free,
There are no free rides in the Jamestown colony,
If you don't work, you'll go hungry,
I said "Ooh-ooh-hoo,"
It's the Jamestown Colony,

Disease and starvation were problems,
And Powhatan Native Americans,
They were wary of these Europeans,
They took Smith and staged an execution,
Staged an execution,

But John was "saved,"
By princess Pocahontas,
Powhatan had made his point,

John Smith and Powhatan, they both had to agree,
That they both wanted peace in the Jamestown Colony,
Though their trust was never concrete, 
I said "Ooh-ooh-hoo,"
It's the Jamestown Colony,

The "Starving Times,"
16-0-9 until '10,
Half of the colonists died,

But if you did survive you might become wealthy,
Once tobacco grew,
In the Jamestown colony,
England's first settlement to succeed,
I said "Ooh-ooh-hoo,"
It's the Jamestown Colony!