In-Class Activity – Create Your Own Colony



In-Class Activity –

Create Your Own Colony

This is your first project grade in this class. Please create high quality work.

• You have just arrived in North America from England. Welcome!

• Work in a group and create a plan for establishing a new colony.

• Each member of the group should be assigned a particular aspect of colonization including political, social, economic, and geographic.

• Draw upon your knowledge of the successes and failures of early English colonies when developing your plans.

• What you need as a group - you will need a visual representation with the following:

• A Name

• A Location to land (must be on the U.S. eastern coast)

• Political organization/Rules

• Social structure (Is your society homogenous? Multi-racial, gender specific, Who runs the government? Who runs the home?)

• Symbol of your colony (i.e. flag), national anthem

• Economic – how will you survive? Once you get across the Atlantic, you better figure out how your colony will survive. Will you rely on the land, farming, coastal waters, timber, trade?

• Your visual presentation can be a large poster or a Power Point presentation

***You will present your colony plans to the class***

Assignment is worth 100 points

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