Monday, April 4th, 2011

Tonight you will be using an interactive site to learn more about the first permanent English settlement in the "New World".  Follow the directions below to answer the questions. Copy and paste these questions below into a new word document - MAKE SPACE for your answers. Here is the Jamestown Exhibit site.

DIRECTIONS: When you link to the Jamestown Exhibit site, the first thing you will need to do is skip two chapters. Mr. M will have shown how to do this during class. But, if you forget, there is a right arrow located on the middle bar in the site. That takes you to the next chapters. Okay, just follow the instructions below and you will be fine!

• In the first box for Chapter 3, it says to "Play the Animation". Do this and what do you see that may be a problem with English claims for land in North America?
• The second box for Chapter 3 gives some information about the Virginia Company of London. This is the company which was granted a charter for North America. 
• What did the charter grant them?
• What did the company have to provide?
• Box three of Chapter 3 continues to give more information about the Virginia Company of London. 
•  How was the company organized? In other words, how did it work?
• What were they hoping for?
• In box four of Chapter 3, you will learn how was involved in the expedition. Who made up this first group of adventurers?
• Box five of Chapter 3 identifies the ships of the first expedition - can you name them?

Now, skip over to Chapter 5. Skip over the Chapter about the Powhatan. We will learn about them tomorrow night. Here are your final questions:

• In box two of Chapter 5, what happens to the Englishmen the very first night off the ship? 
• What will be the challenge they will face?
• Read boxes three and four to get the picture of how the Englishmen were able to stay in that area. Some of what I read here, I didn't even know. The history channel people did a nice job with the primary sources.
• In box six of Chapter 5, you will learn how the Englishmen picked their final spot to build a fort. What did George Percy have to say about it in his journal? Did he give some reasons why this was the spot they wanted?
• Box seven details how important it was to finish the fort as soon as possible. Can you tell me why?
• Finally, box eight of Chapter Five, George Percy explains, 400 years ago, what their fort was like. What did he say?