1. Day 4: Life in Jamestown and Maryland
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
A.P. U.S. History
Mr. Green

2. Life in Jamestown and Maryland
Outcomes: At the end of this lesson, students will be able to compare and contrast colonial Virginia to colonial Maryland by hypothesizing about why people came/did not come

3. Motivation/Warm-up
Identify reasons people left Europe/England to travel to the New World.
Who is Baltimore and Maryland named after and why was the colony founded?

4. Discussion - “What Early Marylanders Were Like”
Where were early Marylanders from? What socio-economic class did most early Marylanders come from? How much education did early Marylanders have? How do researchers/historians know this? What was the life expectancy of an early Marylander? Why was alcohol in such demand?

5. Guided Practice
Distribute “Position of the first 3 groups of settlers in Virginia” Examine the list of settlers who came to Virginia and hypothesize/infer about why certain individuals came/did not come

6. Discussion-APUSH
Serving Time in Virginia Compare/contrast colonial Virginia to colonial Maryland Reasons for founding Differences in religion Chesapeake region-quasi separate but a part of the Southern region Early Marylanders

7. Cooperative Work
Turn to your neighbor and identify the similarities and differences between the early Marylanders and early Virginians. You may use a Venn Diagram to organize your thoughts

8. Exit Ticket
Compare and contrast the experiences, reasons for founding, and the way of life of the settlers of Jamestown and Maryland

9. Homework
Skim Chapter 1 and read 1st 10 pages of chapter 2