8/23-24 Thursday-Friday

Guiding Question: 

What motivated the settlement of Jamestwon? 

Objectives:

Collaborative: Students will understand what motivated the settlement of Jamestown by reading and answering questions with at least 80% accuracy. 

Independent: Students will demonstrate their current literacy level by completing an iReady diagnostic to the best of their ability. 

OR

Students will understand European colonization by completing a webquest with at least 80% accuracy. 

Standards:

HSS.8.1 - Understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation 

CCRA.R.1 – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

What would it take to get you to move to a place that no one you know had ever been to before? 

Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 10 minutes: 

Jamestown Introduction

Independent (Voice Level 0) 40 minutes: 

Task 1: Continue your iReady diagnostic test, your username and password is the same as your alliance account, but without the "@students.laalliance.org" at the end. 

Task 2: Complete the European Exploration Webquest in Google Classroom

Task 3: Complete the Jamestown cannibalism HiCCEAS we started on Wednesday this is due by Monday! 

Task 4: Watch this documentary about Roanoke. 

Did you finish all of these things? You may practice your history trivia, read silently, or complete homework for another class. 

Collaborative (Voice Level .5) 40 minutes:

- What motivated the settlement of Jamestown? 
- Notebook check

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 

In at least four sentences: What have you learned so far about the colony of Jamestown?

Homework: 

1. European Colonization Webquest due by Friday at 11:59 p.m. 
2. Jamestown: Why was being an early settler dangerous? HiCCEAS due Monday/Tuesday.