Thirteen Colonies Project

Name: ______Thirteen Colonies Project: Assigned 8/18 and Due: 8/26

Within 150 years of the founding of Jamestown, the English had established 13 colonies along the Atlantic Ocean of North America.

From the beginning these colonies developed a variety of political, economic, religious, social and cultural structures. Your text, especially chapter 3, and the power point notes that you took will assist you in completing this project. Your map will show the 13 colonies as they existed before the French and Indian war.

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 back in ink 4. Each colony group (Southern, Middle Atlantic, New England) will be shaded in a different color. Each individual colony will have their most important city labeled and marked with a symbol, of your choosing, as to its location 5. The Appalachian mountains will be marked with small triangles 6. The Atlantic Ocean will be marked 7. The Chesapeake bay will be marked 8. The following rivers will be marked: Hudson, Jamestown , Neuse, 9. French Quebec will be marked with a name and symbol to indicate what export it was noted for 10. Spanish Florida will be marked 11. The compass will be noted somewhere on the map and accurately show the directions. 12. 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 13. Your map will contain a key or legend as to the symbols that you have used 14. Make sure you include the city that is located at 40 degrees north latitude and 75 degrees west longitude 15. 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.

You will need a large white poster to complete this project. They can be purchased for the minimum prices at Wal- mart, Dollar Store, and our media center. If you can not afford a poster this week, please feel free to use my newspaper type poster sized paper on the back shelf, but be aware that it rips easily. I do not grade higher or lower for the type of poster used. You may start this project at home and we will use our block days to work on it in class.

This assignment will include work in class during the block schedule and work on your own at home, during AP or before or after school. I am here during AP and, with prior notice, before and after school. The class has supplies to make an excellent poster. Late posters will have 10 points a day deducted for lateness.

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.