Discover the first attempts made to colonize and establish the first permanent English colonies in the North American region, from Sir Walter Raleigh's colony at Roanoke and settlement at Jamestown, Virginia to colonies in Maryland and Massachusetts. Your class members will learn about colonists' motivations for wealth, societal structure and gender roles, the distinction between Puritans and Pilgrims, the "city on a hill" metaphor, and colonial interactions with Native Americans.

Concepts

jamestown, colonial america, the mayflower compact, the mayflower, john winthrop, squanto, the roanoke colony

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Additional Tags

roanoke, jamestown, starving time, mayflower compact, squanto, john winthrop, social studies

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Classroom Considerations

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Pros

• Video uses several images, graphics, and primary source quotations to illustrate historical content

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Common Core

SL.9-10.5 SL.11-12.5 RH.11-12.7