More Colonization & Main Idea!

The students will continue learning about colonization this week. We have already discussed both Roanoke and Jamestown colonies and will begin discussing Plymouth when we return from Thanksgiving break.  We will also begin discussing how to identify main idea and details within a text.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving! I hope it is filled with love and laughter!

Colonization

This week the students will begin our unit on colonization by theorizing what they think happened at the Lost Colony of Roanoke. John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony in present-day North Carolina, returns from a supply-trip to England to find the settlement deserted. White and his men found no trace of the 100 or so colonists he left behind, and there was no sign of violence. Among the missing were Ellinor Dare, White’s daughter; and Virginia Dare, White’s granddaughter and the first English child born in America. August 18 was to have been Virginia’s third birthday. The only clue to their mysterious disappearance was the word “CROATOAN” carved into the palisade that had been built around the settlement. White took the letters to mean that the colonists had moved to Croatoan Island, some 50 miles away, but a later search of the island found none of the settlers.

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