1. What can you infer? (What do you think the things you can see mean?)
What can you see in this portrait of Elizabeth I
The British empire began when I was queen in the seventeenth century. Can you guess which countries became part of the empire back then???

2. Title: What was life like in Colonial America ?
24 August August 2019
Learning Objective: To investigate what life was like in the American colonies.
Learning Outcomes:
Good: You must be able to extract information from a source.
Great: You need to be able to explain a reason why a source is useful using details from the source.
Awesome: You need to be able to explain one way that the provenance of sources affect their usefulness.

3. The Americas
Context!
In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh organised a small settlement at Roanoke in Virginia, but it failed
Place the events in chronological order
How does this link to what we looked at last lesson?
In 1607, Captain John Smith founded a permanent colony at Jamestown in Virginia.
Place the events in chronological order
What do you think has been the long term impact of Britain setting up colonies in America?
In 1497, only five years after Christopher Columbus sailed to the West Indies, the Italian explorer John Cabot, financed by English merchants, discovered new lands in Canada.
The first successful English colonies in the West Indies were founded in the 1620s: The settlers set up sugar and tobacco plantations, and used slave labour.
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4. In 1497, only five years after Christopher Columbus sailed to the West Indies, the Italian explorer John Cabot, financed by English merchants, discovered new lands in Canada.
The first English colonies were formed in north America:
In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh organised a small settlement at Roanoke in Virginia, but it failed.
In 1607, Captain John Smith founded a permanent colony at Jamestown in Virginia.
The first successful English colonies in the West Indies were founded in the 1620s:
The settlers set up sugar and tobacco plantations, and used slave labour

5. Read through the sources and create a mind map about life in the new colony. Make sure you find out about:
Dangers
Food
work
Relationship with the locals
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Imagine you were a settler who went over to America in Write a letter back home in 1608 to explain your friends/family what life is like in this new place.
Make sure you include:
Dangers
Food
work
Relationship with the locals
Why you left.
Are you glad you came to America?
Choose a task
For those who made the journey to this new colony life was full of new challenges and opportunities.

6. Use the question planning sheet to plan your answer to this question.
How useful are Sources C and D to an historian studying the Empire in America?
Use the question planning sheet to plan your answer to this question.
Remember the Sources are not completely useful or completely useless they have good points and bad points.
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