Materials

• Book about the settlers of Jamestown
• Picture of John Smith
• KWL chart
• “Jamestown 1607 Cause-and-Effect Activity” and “Sequence Activity” (Attachment A) and Answer Key (Attachment B)
  
• Textbook, trade books, or instructional materials about Jamestown
  
• Computer with Internet access

Instructional Activities

1. Review the reasons for the location and settlement at Jamestown.
   
   
2. Introduce the term hardship, and ask the students to give an example of what hardships they might encounter in the present. Define the word hardship. Now have them brainstorm possible hardships for the setters at Jamestown. Remind the students that the men who came were gentleman who lacked labor skills and thought that they would find riches upon arrival. Explain that they did not know how to grow crops or hunt. They did not want to work, because in England they had been businessmen.
   
   
3. Review the Essential Understandings for information on hardships faced by the settlers. A teacher and student resource, Voyage to Virginia, is available from the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation at the following Web site: <http://www.historyisfun.org/PDFbooks/Voyage_to_Virginia.pdf>
   
   
4. Read a book about the settlers of Jamestown to help identify John Smith and show his picture from the following Web site. Discuss his leadership role at Jamestown. Picture from Jamestown Rediscovery: <http://www.apva.org/history/jsmith.html>.
   
   

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5. Complete a KWL chart about early relationships between the Virginia Indians and settlers.
   
   
6. State that Captain John Smith initiated trade relationships with the Powhatan Indians, and describe how he befriended Pocahontas, creating a link between the Powhatan Indians and the English.
   
   
7. Discuss situations in which the Powhatan would no longer want to have friendly relations with the English. Have the students state possible circumstances such as the settlers were wasteful and took over land.
   
   
8. Review the previously studied content by completing the “Jamestown 1607 Cause-and-Effect Activity” and “Sequence Activity” (Attachment A) and Answer Key (Attachment B).