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Thursday, Sept. 22nd 1. Get out your spiral 2. Update your table of contents DateTitle Entry # 9/19English colonization Timeline15 9/20What Happened at Roanoke? Notes16 9/20Survival Plan17 9/21Jamestown Leadership activity18 9/22What was Jamestown? notes19 5.Turn to entry 19 and title it: What was Jamestown? (make sure you write your entry # to the left) 6.Turn back to entry 17: Survival Plan
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 1. The most important things the colonists had to do to survive were to plant crops, trade with the Indians, build shelters and to work hard with strict discipline
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 2.The purpose of the colony was to make money by growing crops that would be sent back to England to sell for profit. Jamestown would also be a ready market for English goods. The colonists were more interested in searching for gold. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6SrZ-6cGVA
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 3. Everyone was expected to work
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 4. The colony needed farmers, carpenters and doctors. Settlers needed to know how to make their own clothes, candles, and meals.
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 5. Two supply ships arrived in 1608 to find that over two-thirds (about 70) of the original settlers had died from disease and starvation.
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 6.The colonists selected a leader to take command of the colony. He ordered everyone to work at growing their own food. He also bargained with the Indians for food.
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A, B, or C???? If you chose A go and stand by the door (leading outside) If you chose B go and stand by Mr. Osborn's room. If you chose C go and stand at the front of the room (Discussion: as a group, decide the most important reason why you chose your candidate then chose a spokes person)
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A, B, or C???? A is the correct choice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2E32G ZHX44
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 7. More farmers were sent from England to the Jamestown colony.
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 8.The leader laid down a simple rule, “No work, no food.” “Twice a day, every man and woman, at the ringing of the bell, should, on working days, come to hear a religious service. The first time he misses the service, his day’s food will be kept from him. The second time he misses the service he will be whipped. The third times he misses, he will be sent to the galleys for 6 months.” “If any man or woman runs away from the colony to live with the Powhatan or any other Indian chiefs, he or she will be executed” “No person what so every shall say mean things about, disobey, or ignore the commandments of the Governor or any other public official. The first time a person breaks this law, he will be whipped three times, the second time, he will be sent to the galley for a month; the third time, he will be executed” “He that lies or bears false witness in any case, not matter who he is, shall be put to death” “No person shall embezzle, lose, or willingly break, or fraudulently make away, either spade, shovel, hatchet, axe, or other tool or instrument upon pain of a whipping” “No person shall throw out the water or suds of laundry in the open street within the Palisades or within forty feet of the same… upon pain of whipping and further punishment as shall be thought appropriate”
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 9. Thieves were sometimes chained to a tree and allowed to starve to death.
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 10. At first the colonists received help and advice from the Indians. Then the colonists tried to take control of Indian land. The Indians killed 350 colonists in a surprise for the colonist’s treachery.
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Survival Plan: Jamestown’s Decision!!! 11.
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