Colonization & Settlement (1600-1750) Project
GRADING GUIDELINE & DUE
DATES-
1) Choose a project and parent signature-5 points: due date: Nov.9
2) Research Days- On task in the Computer Lab/Library, Complete
the research form-20 points: due date: Nov. 20
3) Rough Draft- A first draft of all writing (typed)-25 points:
due date: Nov. 23
4) Final Draft- 50 points: due date: Dec. 7
All written portions must be typed. Written PAPERS must be size 12, normal font, double-spaced. However, labels, scripts, and diary/journal entries may be single-spaced.
Directions: Choose a task from this Multiple Intelligences
grid. "I" is an Independent task and "G" is
a Group task (of 2-5 members). See the info below for task details
and directions. All tasks require a written paper. Research must
include at least 2 Primary Sources and 2 Secondary Sources and
a Bibliography of these sources.
Click here for Colonial Primary Sources on the web.
For Colonial Secondary Sources click here.
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Task # 1:
Essential Question: How and why did geography have an impact on settlement patterns?
Multiple Intelligences: Naturalist, Individual work
Task summarized: Research hunting, fishing, and farming in the colonies. Create one poster (construction size or larger) for each of the following colonial regions: New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies. Depict the unique hunting, fishing, and farming aspects of these three colonies. Include information captions of three sentences per picture.
Write a two-page paper discussing
how and why geography impacted settlement of the three colonial
regions. Which type(s) of understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 2:
Essential Question: How did slavery develop and what was its impact in the colonies?
Multiple Intelligences: Musical, Group work
Task summarized: Research life
under slavery; specifically investigate slave music brought from
Africa and slave music developed in America. Sing or perform the
music or dances. Write a two-page paper describing the impact
of slave music and dance on slave life in the colonies and on
today's music and dance scene. Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 3:
Essential Question: Why did the Americas attract Europeans?
Multiple Intelligences: Visual, Individual work
Task summarized: Create a tri-fold advertising brochure to attract new settlers to a colonial region. Include information on all six sides of the brochure. Select from: New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies, and Backcountry. The brochure should include three visuals and should highlight geographic features such as climate and soil, economic opportunities, and incentives such as land grants or freedom of religion.
Write a two-page paper describing three-five reasons that the Americas attracted Europeans.
Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 4:
Essential Question: To what extend did colonists and indigenous societies influence each other?
Multiple Intelligences: Interpersonal, Individual work
Task summarized: Selection one
Native American group in a colonial region on which to focus and
the European group interacting with that group (such as the Wampanoag
and the Puritans). Research the two groups ideas about land ownership,
natural resources, morals, religion, etc. Write and perform a
5-minute dramatic monologue (costumes & props recommended)
in which you describe the colonial and indigenous societies influences
upon each other. You may take the role of either or both sides
alternately. Which type(s) of understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 5:
Essential Questions: How and why did geography have an impact on settlement patterns? Why did colonist differ in the ways they established their social institutions of family, education, religion, government, and economy?
Multiple Intelligences: Logistical- Mathematical, Group work
Task summarized: Design three
maps showing European colonies in North America in 1620s-1650s,
1670s-1690s, and 1730s-1750s. Features to include: geographic
features, settlements, colonial ownership, population (free &
slave), natural resources/economic products, religious affiliations,
forms of government. Write a two-page paper comparing two colonial
regions (New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies,
Backcountry) in terms of five of the features. Which type(s) of
understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 6:
Essential Question: How did slavery develop and what was its impact in the colonies?
Multiple Intelligences: Verbal, Individual work
Task summarized: Research the
forced removal of Africans known as the African Diaspora and the
Middle Passage voyage. Write an investigative eyewitness newspaper
article (2 page single-spaced, 2 column format-like a newspaper)
exposing the horrors of the slave ships, the life of a slave in
the colonies, and the positive and negative effects of slavery
on the colonies. Include at least 2 primary source quotes. Which
type(s) of understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 7:
Essential Question: Why did colonists differ in the ways they established their social institutions of family, education, religion, government, and economy?
Multiple Intelligences: Bodily-Kinesthetic, Group work
Task summarized: Research the Salem Witch Trials. Prepare a script and re-enact a 10-minute portion of a trial (costumes and props encouraged). At the end of the skit include one or more soliloquy(s) discussing theories about the reasons for the hysteria- include facets of the social institutions of family, religion, education, government, and economy in Salem at this time.
Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 8:
Essential Question: To what extend did colonists and indigenous peoples influence each other?
Multiple Intelligences: Intrapersonal, Individual work
Task summarized: Research a real historic Native American (such as Pocahontas) and compare the "Hollywood" (or written fiction) version vs. the historical figure.
Write a 4-page comparison/contrast
paper of the Hollywood vs. history versions and describe why these
types of myths and legends develop. Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 9:
Essential Question: Why did colonists differ in the ways they established government?
Multiple Intelligences: Verbal, Group work
Task summarized: Read the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. Research the background of their creation, implementation, and changes (such as the Charter Oak legend). Debate which document, if used in a city today such as Anchorage, could be operational with the least amount of modifications. (See Mrs. Grib for formal debate instructions.)
Three-pages of debate arguments
are required for both sides of the debate. Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 10:
Essential Question: How did various historical figures influence the American colonies?
Multiple Intelligences: Visual-spatial, Group work
Task summarized: Research 25-30 historical figures from 1600-1750 from the colonial regions: New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies, and Backcountry.
Create 25-30 celebrity cards.
The front should have hand drawn illustrations of the celebrities.
The back should include information such as: name, nickname, date
of birth, death, spouse, children, occupation, 3-5 sentences on
their major contributions to their colony and/or to American history.
Be sure to include Natives, slaves, free Blacks, women, and other
minority groups. Which type(s) of understanding does this task
emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 11:
Essential Question: Why did the colonist differ in the ways they established their social institutions of family, education, religion, government, and economy?
Multiple Intelligences: Interpersonal, Group work
Task summarized: Research a specific time period in the life of a colony (such as a month, a year, a ten year period) between the years 1607-1750. Create a script and prepare a 10-minute news broadcast reporting on family life, education, religion, government, economy and historically significant effects. (Recommendation- 2 anchors, 1 weather person, 1 sports person, 1 investigative reporter, 1 commentator. Costumes and props also recommended.)
Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 12:
Essential Question: Why did the colonists differ in the ways they established their social institutions of family, education, religion, government, and economy?
Multiple Intelligences: Musical, Independent work
Task summarized: Research the
musical instruments, music, and dance unique to two of the following
colonial regions of the 1700s-1750s: New England Colonies, Middle
Colonies, Southern Colonies, and Backcountry. Write a two-page
paper describing the musical instruments, music, and dance of
the two colonies. Perform a short 1-3 minute musical piece from
the time period which would have been played in the colonies.
Which type(s) of understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 13:
Essential Questions: To what extent did colonists and indigenous societies influence each other? How did slavery develop and what was its impact in the colonies?
Multiple Intelligences: Intrapersonal, Individual work
Task summarized: Read a series
of journal or diary entries or narratives by two or more colonists,
slaves, Natives, or visitors to the colonies focusing on interactions
with Natives or on slavery. Write 8 fictional dated journal or
diary entries (of 100-150 words per entry) from the perspective
of a colonist, slave, Native, or visitor to a specific settlement
or colony. Information should be fact based and must include relations
with Natives or slavery and five of the following topics: typical
food, clothing, education, role of women, village life, city life,
religion, government, weapons, tools, equipment, building structures,
entertainment. Which type(s) of understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 14:
Essential Questions: Why did the colonists differ in the ways they established their social institution of religion?
Multiple Intelligences: Bodily-kinesthetic, Group work
Task summarized: Research the
following religious groups from 1600-1750 and their corresponding
colonies: Puritan/Pilgrim, Jew, Quaker, Roman Catholic. Prepare
a script and perform a 10-minute dramatization of the meeting
of one member of each of these four very diverse religious groups
(costumes & props recommended). Their conversations should
emphasize the similarities and differences in their religious
beliefs and how this affects their lifestyles in their respective
colonies. Which type(s) of understanding does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 15:
Essential Question: How and why did geography have an impact on settlement patterns?
Multiple Intelligences: Naturalist, Group work
Task summarized: Research the
unique flora and fauna of 2 of the following colonial regions:
New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies, and
Backcountry. Design 2 dioramas (at least 12" x 12").
Each should depict 5 plants and 5 animals indigenous to that colony.
Write a two-page paper discussing how settlement patterns may
have been affected by the geography of the land and by these unique
plants and animals of the two colonies. Which type(s) of understanding
does this task emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
Task # 16:
Essential Questions: To what extent did colonists and indigenous societies influence each other? Why did the Americas attract Europeans? How did slavery develop and what was its impact in the colonies?
Multiple Intelligences: Logistical-mathematical, Independent work
Task summarized: Create a British
colonial timeline from 1600-1750 with 25 events labeled. Write
a four-page paper discussing British colonial and Native interactions,
slavery's beginnings and increase, and immigration to the colonies
by specific groups. Which type(s) of understanding does this task
emphasize:
Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application
Comprehension Perspective Empathy Self Knowledge
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