Plymouth Colony

Lesson plan 1: What is thanksgiving? Day: 1 Length: 50-60 minutes Component 1: Graphic organizer Materials: Graphic organizer template small paper plate large paper plate brown paint paintbrush construction paper in 3 fall colors red, orange, yellow safety scissors pen or pencil googly eyes photo of the student hole punch and ribbon Day Lesson Objective: Students will use their background knowledge when writing on their graphic organizer Anticipatory Set: The teacher will begin this lesson by…

to 1754, Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of the colonies. There were countless events going on during this time period. The English were busy trying to colonize the new land and trade was developing. Plymouth and Jamestown were the first colonies established by England. These colonies were growing regional differences and people were flourishing because they had freedom. The colonies’ sole purpose was to benefit the mother country. As long as the products were…

solve the mystery of the “Lost Colony.” There was three attempts to settle Roanoke. The first attempt was lead by Arthur Barlowe who took more than a hundred men with him to settle in July of 1585. They had a supply shortage and didn’t think the supplies would get to them in time, so they fled back to England in the summer of 1586. The second attempt was in 1585 and was chased away by angry tribes in 1586. The third attempt was lead by the governor of the new colony, John White, in August of…

Jamestown vs. Plymouth Many settlers during the early 1600’s came to the Americas for different reasons. In 1607, a hundred and four men boarded the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery and landed in Virginia and named it Jamestown. Thirteen years later, a hundred and two pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts and named their colony Plymouth. Jamestown and Plymouth came to the New World to start anew and prosper. Each of the colonies stay in the New World was different in many…

a huge impact it was a colony. The scholar Leonard Adolf gives a detailed report of the Pilgrims and their interactions as they came to America in his article “Squanto's Role In Pilgrim Diplomacy”. The outcome of Pilgrims coming to America was that the people and things they encountered affected the English language. In the 17th century the English language developed and changed as a result of “coming to America”. The Pilgrim Fathers landed in November 1620 at Plymouth Rock in New England…

Mary Rowlandson and her use of David’s Psalms When the Puritans arrived in New England, they saw themselves confronted with a wilderness in which they wanted to found their “New Jerusalem”. In the Psalms of David, which describe his own spiritual “wilderness experience”, they found hope and consolation. It is not surprisingly then, that these Psalms appeared in the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. David’s Psalms appeared to be of particular importance to one Puritan…

name of the ship is what the pilgrims named the Mayflower Compact after. The Mayflower Compact was molded to keep the pilgrims together. Theses wanderers left England and boarded a ship to set sail to Virginia but in the outcome they ended up in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The pilgrims pronounced that this would be where they settled. So forty one English colonists signed the mayflower compact and they worked together as a group. Running Head: The Mayflower Compact and What it Done…

and were in the colony. This exodus led to the creation of Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island when he was exiled for speaking out against the Puritans on October 9th, 1635. The Puritans also started the larger flow of people to…

in New England Economic Political Social Massachusetts Bay Colony was thriving as a result of the successful fur trading, fishing, and shipbuilding industries. This was made possibly by skillful settlers like John Winthrop, an affluent and educated settler who became the colony’s first governor. The Pilgrims arrived outside of the Virginia Company’s domain and therefore had no specific authority. In order to prevent chaos in the colony, Pilgrim leaders wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact…

their families and became soldiers and sailors. Additionally, the Separatists were concerned that Holland and Spain would go to war against each other. Thus, a few, brave Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower, intending to sail to Virginia, but arrived at Plymouth in November of 1620. Because they arrived with an insufficient supply of food and it was too late to grow crops, half of the Pilgrims died in their first winter. Thankfully, the chief of the Wampanoags, Masasoit, and his translator, Squanto,…