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Essay Instructions: Jamestown is Settled - 6th grade level - outline already completed

I Background
A. England dreams of a new colony
1. London Company is formed
2. First colonist chosen
B. The Voyage
1. Sailing from England
2. Troubles at sea
C. Sighting of land
1. A place to settle
2. Colony is named
II Survival
A. Colonist became sick
B. Captain John Smith takes control
C. Trading with Indians
D. More colonist come
1. First woman arrives
2. Fire in the colony
E. Winter 1609 - 1610
1. John Smith injured
2. The Starving Time
III Progress in the colony
A. Help from England
B. New government
C. Colonist begin making money (tobacco)
IV Conflict
A. Trade stops with Indiians
B. Stealing land
C. Captives taken
1. Pocahontas
2. Pocahontas marries
V Success
A. First lasting English settlement
B. Encouragement to begin other coloinies



No direct quotes...do not reference the sources in paper

Essay Instructions: This paper needs to include material only from the two following:
America, Found and Lost by Charles C. Mann, from the May 2007 edition of national Geographic.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/jamestown/charles-mann-text
"First Peoples" third edition. Author; Colin G. Calloway
The paper needs to answer this question.
How does the reading enhance your understanding of the impacts that the Jamestown settletment had on native peoples living in the Chesapeake Bay region? How was the Jamestown experience ( including the conflict that followed) a sign of things to come for native communities along the Atlantic seaboard?
Topics to address include social, political, enviromental/ecological, military, cultural, and or economic aspects. Can be one or combination of topics, but must place reading within the larger context of the effects of the English colonization on native communites and relate it to larger themes/ developments. provide some historical background.

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Essay Instructions: All what I need on my essay is to respond to this questions. ""How would you have planned the Jamestown colony to ensure a good and prosperous start? Include the kind of people you would have sent, supplies that would have been needed, type of government, choice of a location, and plans for growth.""

Essay Instructions: (NEED 300 WORDS FOR THIS ENTRY)
The settlement of the Middle Atlantic lands is often contrasted with the settlement of Massachusetts Bay: The Virginia colonies are described as secular and materialistic in their purposes, rather than religious and spiritual. Where are the inidications of Smith's motives and aspirations as he describes the Jamestown area to an English audience? What specifically excites him about the prospect of colonies in this region?

(NEED 300 WORDS FOR THIS ENTRY)
What is the point of "Rip Van Winkle?" Is it only a funny story or is there something else going on? Can this story be read as being symbolic of the struggle between America and England with Rip representing America and Dame Van Winkle representing England? Are there any similarities between the conflict between these two and the conflict between the two nations?