Thirteen Colonies Project s1

Name: ______Due Date: ______Thirteen Colonies Project:

Within 150 years of the founding of Jamestown, the English had established 13 colonies along the Atlantic Ocean of North America though they had not founded all of them. This time period is

From the beginning individual colonies developed a variety of political, economic, religious, social and cultural structures. However they are generally grouped in three because of certain similarities. You are going to learn about the colonies, their geographical areas and apply that learning using your visual, spatial and kinesthetic abilities. Your text, especially chapter 3, and the power point notes that you took will assist you in completing this project. You are going to draw a map of the 13 colonies on a poster sized paper and include the information listed below. Your map will show the 13 colonies as they existed before the French and Indian war. Poster must be white in color and the Media center sells them.

Your map will contain the following:

1. The names of each of the 13 colonies on an accurate poster length map 2. A title 3. You name and period marked on the front in ink 4. The following cites will be accurately placed on the map: Boston, Savannah, Philadelphia, New York City, Jamestown, Charleston, Dover, Baltimore, Plymouth, Providence, Salem, 5. The New England colonies will be colored in with one color of your choosing. The Middle Atlantic colonies will be colored in with another color of your choosing and the Southern colonies will also be colored in with a color of your own choosing. Colored pencils are in the bookcase. 6. An arrow will point to the House of Burgesses location and be so labeled 7. An arrow will point to the Mayflower Compact location and be so labeled 8. An arrow will point to a town meeting location and be so labeled 9. The Appalachian mountains will be marked with small triangles 10. The Atlantic Ocean will be marked 11. The Chesapeake bay will be marked 12. French Quebec will be marked. 13. The following rivers will be drawn and marked: Hudson, Neuse, Jamestown 14. A symbol to indicate what export French Quebec was noted for will be placed near its name and the explanation will be on the Map Key. 15. Spanish Florida will be marked in writing and it’s most important city of that time labeled. 16. The compass will be noted somewhere on the map and accurately show the directions. 17. The Middle passage sometimes called the Triangular trade and its exports will be drawn in with labels and arrows as to where the products are going to. 18. The Southern, New England and Middle Atlantic colonies will as individual groups have a “blurb”( 3 in total) in paragraph form that notes the following information: a) The dates founded b) The founder’s or founding group’s names i.e... William Penn c) The European country that originally founded the colony i.e.…England d) Two Main products they are noted for exporting i.e... fur, lumber e) Climate and topography i.e.…cold and rocky f) The reason the colony was established i.e.…religious, financial, political 19. Your map will contain a key or legend as to the symbols that you use 20. Make sure you include the city that is located at 40 degrees north latitude and 75 degrees west longitude 21. Include at least 2 illustrations, drawings or pictures from the internet, your creativity, or magazines to illustrate each of the three main areas (New England, Middle Atlantic, and Southern) of the 13 original colonies. Illustrations must be relevant to the time period and not 2008. They can illustrate clothing, architecture, exports reasons for coming to the New Worlds. .

Following is the rubric for grading:

Making A Poster : 13 Colonies Poster Rubric

Beginning 5 Developing 10 Accomplished 15 Exemplary 20 CATEGORY pts pts pts pts Accuracy of Information was Information was Information was Information was Information accurate only about sometimes clear and accurate, complete, accurate, complete half the time and accurate and most and all task questions and all task questions less than half of the task questions were were addressed. were answered or task questions were answered. depicted correctly. answered.

Illustrations No illustrations were Less than 6 6 or more illustrations 6or more appropriate, used. illustrations were were used to make well-placed used to make points. points. illustrations were used to make essential points.

Clarity of The writing needs to The writing is not The writing is pretty The writing is clear writing be more focused clear enough, and it good. It does what the and does what was and organized. It drifts away from the task asked for, but it asked. The errors in needs to be more to point. It needs to use did not give enough punctuation and the point and more details and be information or details spelling are very few include more details sure it is accurate. with the response. It or non-existent and and information. It Errors exist in spelling needed more. There wouldn't be noticed. has too many and mechanics. were very few errors in mistakes in spelling spelling and and poor punctuation. mechanics. Criteria Presentation does Presentation Presentation Presentation not appropriately appropriately addresses more than purposefully address any of the addresses only half of half but not all of the addresses all criteria. criteria. the criteria. criteria

Original No original thought Little original thought A fair amount of A strong amount of Thought and was shared. Poster was shared. Poster original thought was original thought was was messy was somewhat messy shared. Poster was not shared. Poster was Neatness messy neat and organized.