Jamestown – Common Core Lessons & Activities

The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.



How to Use the Jamestown - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Jamestown - Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Jamestown - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Setting Sail: Reading Informational Text
Jamestown Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
John Smith's Map of Virginia: Primary Source Analysis
Descriptions of Virginia: Comparison of Primary Sources
The Location of Jamestown: Reading Informational Text
Jamestown Occupations: Data Analysis
Settlement of Jamestown: Chronological Events GO12
James Fort at Jamestown: Primary Source Analysis
John Smith Portrait: Primary Source Analysis
Quotes about John Smith: Primary Source Analysis G
Cause and Effect in Jamestown: Cause & Effect G
The Peace of Pocahontas: Inference & Writing
The Wedding of Pocahontas: Primary Source Analysis
Letter to Queen Anne: Primary Source Analysis
Powhatan Words: Primary Source Vocabulary Analysis G
Analyzing Tree Rings: Data Analysis
Colonists vs. Powhatans: Compare & Contrast GO1
Jamestown's Difficulties: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Tobacco and Slavery: Reading Informational Text
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)