By Miss O.

Jamestown: Story Part 1

What do you NOTICE?

What do you KNOW?

What QUESTIONS do you have?

Why did the English want to start a colony in Jamestown?

List the reasons why:

What words do you not know that you find on the page?

Why was putting a colony in Virginia important for England?

London, England•Capital city of England

•England is also known as Great Britain (today United Kingdom)

Parliament Building

Some men in London wanted to send settlers to Virginia, but none of them was rich enough to start a colony by himself.

So all of them put their money together and owned a little part of the company.

This little part of a company is called a “share” or “stock.”

Virginia Company of London

Virginia Company’s “official” seal from the King (after they got their charter)

The Virginia Company of London wanted to send men to Virginia to find gold and make money for their company.

If they could make money from their colony in Virginia, their company would become wealthy!!

Economic Venture $$$$$$$$$

Ruling monarch of England after Queen Elisabeth died

He claimed that Virginia belonged to him, because he was England’s king.

King James I

England wanted to establish an American colony to increase its wealth and power.

Why did England want to colonize in America?

They hoped to find silver and gold.

A colony in America could furnish raw materials that could not be grown or obtained in England.

A colony in America would open new markets for trade.

Why would King James say “Yes”!?

Why did England want to colonize in America? There are 3!

1. England hoped to find silver and gold in America.

Silver and Gold

2. A colony in America could furnish raw materials that could not be grown or obtained in England.

LumberTobacco

3. England wanted to open new markets for trade.

Raw materials from the Virginia to other countries that don’t have much England gets all the $ or stuff from other countries in return!

New Markets for Trade

King James grants the Virginia Company a charter.

This charter gave permission to start a colony along the Chesapeake Bay area.

Charter

Listening Quiz

Reader’s Theater

The following advertisements were found in British newspapers in the early years of the Jamestown settlement (1607-1612). Work with a partner to list at least 3 ideas in each part of the graphic organizer.

Primary Source Activity

What do you notice?

What do you know?

What reasons are given to go?

Is the ad successful in convincing? Why or why not?

What questions do you have?

What effects did these advertisements cause between the years of 1607-1612? What happened because of them?

Talk and Turn: Cause and Effect

How are these advertisements similar and different from one another?

Talk and Turn: Compare and Contrast

Which of the 5 advertisements do you think is the best or most convincing to get people to go to Jamestown?

4 Corners and the Middle

How are these advertisements similar and different from the way modern-day advertisements (TV, newspaper, Facebook, etc.) try to persuade their audience’s to buy something, get involved, sign up, etc.?

What realities were left out about the conditions in Jamestown?

Talk and Turn:

What changes might you have made to make these advertisements more convincing or compelling?

Talk and Turn: Make them better?

Each student will design an advertisement poster, entreating volunteers to sign up for the voyage to Virginia for the purpose of finding riches and establishing a permanent settlement. Posters must be include the three reasons for colonization, be colorful, include at least 4 other facts, and be persuasive.

Summative Assessment:

Today, all three of them would look very small to us, but they were strong and could ride the storms across the Atlantic Ocean.

Three Ships

Glue your ship coloring picture in your VA Studies Notebook.

Largest of the 3

Susan Constant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDc724No2M&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Godspeed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqwo_DiPCDM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Smallest of the 3

Discovery

http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=31

Jamestown Settlers Ship’s List

What do you NOTICE?

What do you KNOW?

What QUESTIONS do you have?

The stockholders hoped to make a lot of money for themselves and England—that’s the economic part.

A venture is a business that is risky or dangerous. The stockholders found 104 men willing to go on this trip.

What’s an economic venture?

Captain Christopher Newport

http://www.captainchristophernewport.com/

•Ship captain of the “fleet” that took the English settlers to Jamestown in 1607.

•Famous for sailing with Sir Francis Drake in many sea battles against the Spanish.

•Lost his right arm in battle (the “real” Captain Hook)

Known as the Admiral of Virginia

Came back on numerous voyages to Jamestown to re-supply the starving colonists

Later, When the Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda during a hurricane, Newport organized 150 colonists to build two new vessels for their deliverance to Jamestown.

Captain Christopher Newport

A Virginia college is named after him today!

Land Ho! The settlers first landed at Cape Henry, which is today’s Virginia Beach.

1. Unfriendly Indians

2. Rough water (ocean waves crashing) difficult for ships to dock

3. Instructions (from the charter) told the settlers to go inland and find a suitable place for their colony.

Why did they not stay at Cape Henry?

Sailing up the James

In 1607, when settlers arrived, Jamestown was located on a narrow peninsula bordered on 3 sides by the James River.

Where WAS Jamestown located?

Today, Jamestown is an island in the James River.

Aerial View of Jamestown Island

How did the settlers choose the site at Jamestown?

1. easily defended from attack by sea by the Spanish.

How did the settlers choose the site at Jamestown?

2. The water along the shore was deep enough for ships to dock.•harbor

3. They believed they had a good supply of fresh water.

How did the settlers choose the site at Jamestown?

Palisade

• What natural resources would they have used to make the palisade walls?

• Why would the settlers have made a palisade?

Wattle and Daub Houses

• woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay , sand, animal dung and straw.

Became the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607.

Why is it important that we study Jamestown?