Jonathan Edwards

Colonial People and Movements

Tuesday: Building Context of the people and the times

• Workbook p. 17 (use Chapt. 5 Sect.1 p.135 of the textbook)
• Use the subheading to help you locate the information.  Use the topic sentences to know what you have to read for information, and what you already know.
• Write your responses in complete sentences.  

Areas of Emphasis

How land can make colonist prosperous.
Literacy (ability to read) in the colonies
Great Awakening
The Enlightenment

George Whitefield

The Great Awakening

Wednesday-Friday:

The Great Awakening was a religious movement that emphasized emotion, passion, faith, and trust.  It awakened many colonist to religion and motivated colonist to question authority and religion and government. Great Awakening leaders were George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards.  In answering the question "Why was George Whitefield so popular?" we can contextualize (understand) why colonist participated in the Great Awakening of the colonies.

More on the Great Awakening.

Documents for Why was George Whitefield Popular with the organizer are on the link below.

Read the documents about George Whitefield and complete the organizer.

Develop an outline for: "How did the Great Awakening contribute to challenging authority?"

What caused the English colonies to develop differently?

Activity 1 (Monday/Tuesday):
Complete Graphic Organizer from Chapter 4 p.109-125 Sections 1-3

Picture to be added Wed. evening

Activity 2 Assessment: (Wednesday/Thursday):
Organize a response to the prompt.  Use the following outline to ensure that you have the criteria below for The "A" Paragraph.

The “A” paragraph

•Clear topic and concluding sentence that supports information presented.
•Logical organization of information.
•Citation of evidence using specific examples.
•Multiple causes and effects.

Puritans: Selfish or Selfless?

As the Puritan group looks to move to establish a British colony in the 1600s to "purify" the Church of England,  two Puritan leaders deliver sermons to their congregations.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t6id24yjyibat2b/Puritans_Selfish_selfless.pdf

John Winthrop

John Cotton

Develop a historical claim on the topic:  Were the Puritans selfish or selfless?  

Outline 5 pts.
Correct quotes 5 pts.
Multiple sources 5 pts.
Argument in the paragraph 10 pts.
Due Monday

What was the typical passenger to the New England and Virginia colonies?

Use two ship manifests from 1635.  Then answer the questions that follow.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hvxmjb9khd9plyn/Examining%20Passenger%20Lists.pdf

Thursday:  Collect the data on the chart.
Friday: Answer the questions at the bottom of the "Examining Passenger Lists" worksheet.

Tuesday

Founding of the New England Colonies & Virginia

Organize a notes page by folding it and creating three columns.  

Organize the notes in the following presentation onto the paper. (Skip slide 3)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1h23ed2vp8swiot/EstablishingNewEnglandColonies_%26Virginia.pdf

We worked until slide 8 and continued working on terms or names (section 2 due Wednesday) or completing map from Friday.

Thursday

Completed Chapter 3 Section 1-2 Terms and Names (Due Wed.)

Friday

Completed the Map Activity.
13 colonies color coded for New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies, along with Plymouth, Jamestown, Roanoke settlements.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4g884vwwd07z4wf/13colonies_map.pdf