Creating A Colony In The New Land
Know ye that His Royal Highness, the King of
England, has hereby offered his approval to a venture establishing a colony
across the seas on the shores of North America. This privilege has been
extended to thy group contingent upon thou providing plans for such a colony.
Such plans will, to the best available knowledge, insure the success of the
colony and the health and welfare of the King's subjects.
The Task
You have been assigned the task of creating a colony in the New
World and Designing a Colonial
Investment Brochure for a new that colony. This work is to be very
comprehensive because an error on your part may cost the lives of many
colonists. You will also need to provide a visual of the proposed settlement,
and you need to participate in its construction. Since there is only one visual
of the colony, you will cooperate with your team in creating this. If your
ideas are different from your team members, you must work out any differences.
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The Process
Part 1: Your GroupÕs Proposal
á Name your colony,
pick a location (on the East Coast) and work on the brainstorming
worksheet
á Each
member of your group will have a different ÒthemeÓ to research or discuss
concerning your colony.
á Political
á Economic
á Society
á Technology
á Written
documentation from each team member in the form of a worksheet
á A
visual of the settlement (one for the group)
Part
2: Colonial Investment Brochure
¤ Design a brochure to attract European investors (people who give you money) to your
colonies. Topics for the brochure can include types of raw materials, exports,
government systems, ethnic background of the colonists, most and least densely
populated areas, rate of increase in population growth, and relationships with
Native AmericansÉ all the things you have already designed using your
individual worksheets! Be sure your brochure includes visual displays (maps,
charts, graphs, images).
¤ Each
member of your group should contribute to the brochure staying within the
confines of their theme.
¤ Each member
of your group should pick a specific topic about their colonial; either
colonial trades, colonial schooling, everyday life or clothing (see the resources
page) that stays within the confines of your theme to put in your brochure.
¤ You should
use poster paper to create a large-scale brochure. Microsoft Word has a
brochure maker if you want to create a mock-up.
¤ REMEMBER to
stay in characterÉ that is, you are living in the early 1600sÉ no indoor
plumbing, automobiles, cell phones, electricity, etc!
Grade
¤ Group
Proposal = 70 points
o Brainstorming Worksheet
o Political Worksheet
o Economic
Worksheet
o Society
Worksheet
o Technology
Worksheet
o Visual/Map
o Creativity
and Cooperation
¤ Investment Brochure =
50 points
o Political
Section
o Economic
Section
o Society
Section
o Technology
Section
o Creativity,
Cooperation and Organization
The Calendar:
|
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
|
Build a Colony Webquest
(computer
lab) |
Build a Colony Webquest
(computer
lab) |
Build a Colony (computer
lab) DUE |
Fur Trading Conflict and Unhappiness in
the Colonies BaconÕs Rebellion French and Indian War |
Conflict and Unhappiness in
the Colonies Sons of Liberty: Terrorists
or Patriots? HOMEWORK: Sons of Liberty Essay DUE Tuesday |
The Brainstorming
To more efficiently carry out these tasks, your teacher will
organize your class into groups: Within your groups there will be a group of
two that will focus on political, economical, technological and societal
aspects for your colony. After doing your research separately, work within your
groups to design your colony and your brochure. Your project should include an
explanation of your findings for your product (answers to the questions below).
Include a layout of a settlement in the colony.
This person is assigned the task of deciding how the colony shall
be governed. His Majesty is most anxious that the administration of the settlement
be fair and efficient. Although you may wish to have a single individual who is
ultimately responsible to the Crown for the overall running of the colony,
order and efficiency cannot depend upon one person. Assignment of various
important functions shall need to be made. Consider the following needs of the
colony:
- What will be the location of the colony? Be
specific about where it is on a map.
- How will you protect the inhabitants from attack
by hostile savages? We want the Indians to help us and not to be our
enemies. What will you do to make that happen?
- Who will rule the colony? What offices are
needed? How will the laws be enforced? By whom?
- Will you have regular British soldiers or
militia? What are advantages to each? What are disadvantages?
- Who controls the soldiers? Who pays them? Who
houses them?
- Who can own land? (Be specific about what
qualifications they must have (age, gender, etc. for example).
- Will anyone have a vote? If, so, how often and
for what offices?
- If people will vote, then who will be allowed to
vote? What criteria will be used?
- How will your colony make local laws?
- The King is very anxious to keep track of the
progress of the colony. Who will do this, how often, and how do you intend
to report this to His Majesty?
It is most important that the colonists survive and prosper. To
that end, each person must have something to employ their time to the best
advantage of himself and the colony. Not every person
can or should be engaged in growing food nor in any
one thing. There must be a balance among all the work so that every person is dependent
on the others to live. You must decide the following:
- What will be the main business purposes of the
colony? (Will it be agriculture, hunting for pelts, mining for minerals,
or something else?)
- Who will you trade with? For what will you trade?
What will you offer in trade?
- What essential things do the colonists originally
need to bring from England for building, surviving until the colony can
support itself, protection, and trade?
- What materials can the colonists find in the New
World to sustain them?
- What important occupations must your colonists
have?
- How will people be trained for each of the
occupations?
- How many days per week and how many hours per day
will people work?
- How will things be paid for (currency or barter)?
If currency, then describe it.
- There is a new idea of using slaves or
indentured servants to do work. Should we have slavery or indentured
servants in this colony? What would
be reasons for each? If you don't have slavery or indentured servants, from where and
how where will you get workers?
People in the colony will be living from day to day. How well they live will be determined by your group. Yours
is possibly the hardest job since your decisions will affect every colonist
personally. If you are wrong, it could cost some lives. Perhaps the best way to
approach your job is to follow a typical colonist through a day from the time
they get up until they go to sleep. Describe a day from an adult's and a
child's point of view. For the adult include items such as work, tasks, chores,
food, etc. For the child include items such as school (if there is one), tasks,
chores, food, games and the like. Other ways to approach the job is to answer
questions such as:
- Which religion(s) will your colony permit? What
is the role of religion in your colony?
- What shall people be able to do for
recreation?
- What rules should be made concerning schooling,
including subjects taught, rules for attendance, discipline and support
for the teacher?
- What rules will you have concerning courtship?
- What rules will you have concerning marriage
(role of husband, wife, children & relatives)?
- Will you have different social classes of people?
If so, what are they? Can people climb into a higher social class? If so,
then how can they do so?
- What customs will you adhere to?
- What holidays will you celebrate? How will you do
that?
- What is the proximity of your colony to water for
drinking, irrigation, and navigation. (Include
maps.)
- What transportation and communication systems
will you use?
- What will their houses look like (inside and
outside - include sketches)? How will you adapt your dwellings to the
environment?
- What kind of furniture will you use? (Describe
them)
- How will you obtain food? What crops will you
plant or animals will you raise? How will your
store things?
- What farm implements and other tools will you
use?
- How will you make clothes, blankets, etc.?
- What technological occupations are essential to
any colony?
- What weapons and fortifications will you use to
protect yourselves?
- What were health services like? Who did you go to
if you were ill? How were you treated when you were ill? What sanitary
methods were practiced in obtaining water, cooking and in medical
practices.
These are just some of the questions. You and your group need to
ask the rest of the questions, make them as detailed as possible, and then come
up with the answers. Bear in mind that if you forget something, it could take a
year or more before the things that you've forgotten can be supplied.
Additional Resources
Ye Olde Textbook
Chapter
3: The English Colonies
- Section1: The Southern Colonies p. 72
- Section 2: The New England Colonies p. 78
- Section 3: The Middle Colonies p. 85
- Section
4: Life in the English Colonies p.
90
Ye Olde Library
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His Majesty is most anxious for this project to
succeed and has therefore alerted the Royal School Media Coordinator to assist
you in any way possible.
Ye Olde Encyclopedia
Remember to use the INDEX volume first.
"Get thee into cyberspace." The royal inspectors
and other folk have been busy finding places along the King's Information
Highway for you to stop and find out information that you need to help you to
complete your task. Take full advantage of these sites. Stay on the links
provided in this WebQuest. Do not use search
engines unless the Royal Inspectors (your teacher) approves before hand!! Since
the King has spent some big time bucks and time in arranging these sites for
your edification, His Royal Highness will be most upset if you do not use
them!
A TABLE
ALPHABETICAL (R. Cawdrey 1604)
is a dictionary of some of those strange "Olde
English" words you might find while doing your research.