1. Interactive Notebook – don’t forget to date your entry
Left Side – Process Page
Right Side - Information
Student Input: this side gives you a chance to process the information on the right side. It may be a chart, graph, warm up, journal writing …etc.
Teacher Input: notes, data, etc.

2. Warm Up – Left Side Go West, Old Chap, Go West
Why did the colonists come to America?? List as many reasons as you can….

3. Why the Colonists came to America – a brief overview
Problems in England
Religion: conflict between Protestants and Catholics(puritans and separatists)
Economics: enclosure movement forced people off land
Overpopulation
Influence of the Enlightenment
The lure of the American Colonies: Land, Liberty, Religious and Economic freedom.

5. Brief Details on the Colonies
The New England Colonies: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Farming, lumber, fishing, shipbuilding and trade
The Middle Colonies: New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania
Farming and livestock raising. Trade was important esp in Penn and NY
The Southern Colonies: Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia
Ideal region for growing cash crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo

6. Process Page – Left Side (do this under your list of why the colonists came to America) Your Job: Create a “travel advertisement” that encourages people to move to the new colonies. Specifics: -Sketch an image (stick figures are great!) -An attention-grabbing slogan -Three reasons to come to the colonies