Getting Started1. Reminder:

Due Wednesday, December 2

Read pp 72-73 in text.

On p 77 answer q 1a and 1b.

2.Take out your Social Studies notebook and fill in your Table of Contents with the following information:

12/1 The 13 Colonies 48-49

Students will be able to identify and differentiate the Thirteen Colonies by locating them on a

map.

Success Criteria

I can locate and state one fact about the New England colonies.

I can locate and state one fact about the Middle colonies.

I can locate and state one fact about the Southern colonies.

Vocabulary

pilgrim - a person who journeys to a place for religious reasons

grain - wheat, rye, oat

plantation - an unusually large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown by slaves

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Vocabulary

pilgrim - a person who journeys to a place for religious reasons

Vocabulary

grain - wheat, rye, oat

Vocabulary

plantation - an unusually large farm on which tobacco or cotton is grown by slaves

The Thirteen Colonies

New England Colonies

Rocky soil made farming difficult. They fished, built ships and started small

factories.

Middle Colonies They grew grains and sold the extra in ports like New York and Philadelphia.

Southern ColoniesFocused on agriculture, namely

tobacco and cotton. Plantations and slavery developed. Page

48

The Thirteen Colonies

Label the colonies

Color the New England Colonies red

Color the Middle Colonies blue

Color the Southern Colonies greenPage 49

Success Criteria

I can locate and state one fact about the New England colonies

I can locate and state one fact about the Middle colonies

I can locate and state one fact about the Southern colonies

Exit TicketWhat color does the map use for the…

New England Colonies? Middle Colonies?Southern Colonies?

On fact about the New England/Middle/Southern Colonies is…