Roanoke, Jamestown, Bermuda, and Popham Unit Study

A fascinating study of the first English colonies in the New World. Before Plymouth Plantation, four other settlements were started. Adventure, tragedy, mystery, crime, an international war and political intrigue shaped those first settlements and impacted the lives of the brave souls who attempted to settle the new world. This multi-level unit study has activities, readings, maps, and information. This is written for students in 3rd through 8th grade and may be adapted for older or younger participants.

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Timelines

Roanoke Timeline

Sea Venture Timeline

Purpose and Content

Students, teachers, and parents alike will learn more about the fascinating history as cultures collide and a new civilization is formed. Students will understand how old world forces shaped the history of this era.

• Elizabethean England
• Philip II and Spanish Armada
• Privateering and Letters of Reprisal
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Reasons for colonization
• Native Cultures of the Mid Atlantic
• Secotan tribe
• Crotoan tribe
• White's drawings
• Roanoke Colony
  • 1584 Exploration
  • 1585 Fort
  • 1587 Settlement
  • The Lost Colony and White's last two voyages
  • What went wrong?
• Jamestown
• 1607 Settlement
• Archaelogy and Original Sources
• Leaders: John Smith, Newport, and others
• First four supplies
• Starving Time
• Pochontas
• Sea Venture and Bermuda
• Wreck of the Sea Venture
• 10 months on the Island
• Strachey's report
• Onward to Jamestown
• Effect of the Sea Venture Survivors
• Popham
  • The London Company
  • Old Friends and New Faces
  • End of the Colony
  • What Was Learned: An Assessment

  Activities

  • Carolina Indian Culture
  • Reasons to Colonize America
  • Search for Clues in the Roanoke Mystery
  • Choose Your Person
  • Jamestown Archaeology - Find that Fort!
  • Sea Venture Shipwreck Game
  • Pocahontas Facts - Dot-to-Dot

  Other Pages that are uploaded

  Lion To Guard UsUnit Study (Sea Venture)
  
  Modern Translation of Strachey's True Report on the Sea Venture
  
  Jamestown Maps
  
  Kids stories from Jamestown