8/24-25 Thursday-Friday

Guiding Question: 

Why did so many early settlers of Jamestown die? 

Objectives: 

Collaborative: Students will be able to analyze the causes of the deaths of many early settlers in Jamestown by reading, annotating, and completing a Say-Mean-Matter chart with at least 80% accuracy. 

Independent: Students will investigate the colonies of Roanoke and Jamestown by completing a webquest with at least 80% accuracy. 

Standards: 

CA HSS 8.1 – Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significant to the development of American constitutional democracy.

RH.6-8.22 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source

WHST.6-8.9 - Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research 

ELD B.6 - Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed.

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Objective Tracker

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Review information on Jamestown

Independent (Voice Level 0) 45 minutes: 

Task 1:  Roanoke & Jamestown Webquest in Google Classroom 

Early Finishers: You may read quietly, complete another Word Wall, or watch this video about Pocahontas. 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5 - 1) 45 minutes: 

Task 1: Guided annotation for Doc C 
Task 2: Questions. Need sentence starters? 
Task 3: CERL responses 

Here is a rubric for the CERL responses. 

Early Finisher? Play history trivia, read a book, complete homework for another class. 

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

Objective Reflection

Homework: 

Complete your Jamestown CERL responses!