1. Environment and Culture
Colonial Regions
Environment and Culture

2. Modified Colonial Jigsaw
For the next 3-4 days, you will be working in partners to become an expert about the 3 colonial regions
New England, Middle, Southern
The partner you have chosen is your home partner.
You will start and end with this partner. Each of you will be responsible to the other for complete, thorough work.
You will researching the 3 regions with your expert partner.
These are people from other home partnerships that are responsible for the same information you are.
I have chosen these partners so you can have the ability to work with two different people.

3. Colonial Podcasts
At the end of each day, we will take about 10 minutes to watch a podcast over the colonies you and your partner were reading about.
This will give you a chance to:
Check your information
Review what you have learned
Hear and visualize the information you read
These podcasts will also be linked to my website so you can review and study further

4. Home Group Teaching
When you have completed the chart with your expert partner, you will compare/reteach your information to your home partner
Please be sure that you are explaining the information to them
NO COPYING of charts will be allowed
Make sure to speak clearly and slowly
Some ways to start off might be:
“I found that the main religion in Massachusetts was…”
“The type of government they had was…”
“The reasons for settling Massachusetts were…”
If you finish early, let me know, and you make work on any remaining assignments.

5. Jumpstart – 10/4/16 Get out your Colonies Chart.
Find a blank space and write AND complete following analogies:
1. Jamestown was founded in ______::Plymouth was founded in ______
2. Roger Williams is to ________ (colony):: as Thomas Hooker is to _________(colony)

6. Jumpstart – 10/4/16 Pick up a “TIP” chart from the pick up tray.
Using your vocabulary list, write the “Information” for each term and draw a picture you feel symbolizes that term.
T is for term
I is for information
P is for Picture
1. Pilgrim
2. Mayflower Compact
3. Puritan
4. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
5. Thomas Hooker

7. New England Geography Mountainous Rocky, hard soil Large Forests
Very Short Growing Season (long cold winters)
Bad for farming
Large Forests
Natural Harbors (on the Atlantic Ocean)

8. New England Religion Separatists/Pilgrims Puritans
Strict religious rules
Closed communities
Intolerant of different ideas

9. New England Culture ECONOMY Subsistence Farming
Growing only what you need
Timber and Ship Building
Fishing and Whaling
Manufactured Goods
PEOPLE
Puritans and Pilgrims
Merchants, Manufacturers, Fisherman, etc.

10. New England Government
Self-Governing Charters
Town Meetings
The Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island

11. Jumpstart – 10/5/16
Get out your Colonies Chart and your fill in the blank reviews from yesterday.
On the back of your fill in the blank notes write AND complete the following analogies: (you have 5 minutes)
1. Pennsylvania is to Quakers::Maryland is to __________.
2. Lord Baltimore is to Maryland::James Oglethorpe is to ___________.

12. Jumpstart – 10/5/16
Open your spiral to page 25, TIP Vocabulary from yesterday.
Get out your Fundamental Orders of Connecticut papers from yesterday that we began with the predictions.
With a partner in class, quiz each other on the definitions of the 5 terms from yesterday.
DO NOT ALLOW YOUR PARTNER TO LOOK AT THEIR TIP CHART WHILE YOU ARE QUIZZING THEM!

13. Middle Colonies Geography
Plenty of waterways
Rivers
Lakes
Warm summers and mild winters
Long growing season
Fertile soil

14. Middle Colonies Religion
Quakers
German Baptists
French Huguenots
Portuguese Jews
Dutch Mennonite (Amish)
Lutherans
Anglicans

15. Middle Colonies Economy
Farmed Wheat, Oat, Barley and Rye
Called the “Bread Basket Colonies”
Shipbuilding
Skilled craftsmen
Some trade

16. Middle Colonies Government
New York
Proprietary Charters
Religious Freedom and Tolerance
Freedom of the Press
Strong Courts
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

17. Southern Colonies Geography & Economy
Fertile soil
Cool winters/hot summers
Long growing season and fertile land
ECONOMY
Farmed Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, and Cotton.
Grew “cash crops” on plantations
Purchased manufactured goods

18. Southern Colonies Religion
Religious freedom
Mostly Anglican
Most Southern colonies focused on making a profit, not on religion
Maryland: religious freedom for Catholics
Virginia: Jamestown and tobacco
North Carolina: first English attempt at a colony
Roanoke
Georgia: founded for debtors and prisoners

19. Southern Colonies Government
Maryland
Virginia
Joint-Stock and Proprietary Charters
The House of Burgesses
Colonies run for profit
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

20. Southern Colonies People
Anglicans and Catholics (Maryland)
English Plantation Owners, Indentured Servants, Transported Criminals, and Slaves.
Southern Colonies People

21. Jumpstart – 10/6/16
Clear off your desk of any papers, files or folders.
Make sure you have a sharpened pencil.
Map quiz today!!!
Then written test review.
Be sit quietly as you can tell the AC is not working. The more you speak to each other the warmer it will become!

22. Jumpstart – 10/6/16
Pick up a “13 Colonies Chart from the pick up tray.
Write your name and today’s date at the top of the chart.
Today we are going to work in pair’s to complete these charts.

23. Jumpstart – 10/7/16 Get out the following: 1. Pencil 2. highlight
3. Test Review
We will start our test immediately!

24. Jumpstart – 10/7/16
Please get out the 13 Colonies Chart we began as a whole class yesterday.
We will be working with partners to complete the Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies.
Your partner will be:
Sam Matthew
Joshua Jakob (with Mrs. McConnell)
Maggie Caitlyn
Elizabeth Waylon
Kaia Ashley (with Mrs. T)