Unit III: THE FOUNDING OF NEW SOCIETIES: 1607-1763
Question/Problem 4: Describe the ethnic, religious, social, educational, and governmental diversity in the English colonies.
OVERVIEW: You are about to travel through time to the English colonies in America. Your trip will take you through each geographic region -- New England, the Middle colonies and the Southern colonies. You will make one journal entry for each region about your observations of diversity in that region. When you return home you will want to let everyone know which region you liked best. Base your decision upon the facts you have gathered. In a fourth and final entry you will use the observations made in the first three entries to explain the decision you made.
Directions: Use the following to keep on task. You can check off each to make sure your assignment is complete.
1. Review the Criteria for Authentic Assessment of Journal Entries.
2. Use the information from the posters, social ladder, maps, charts, and other sources to write your entries.
3. In each entry describe the diversity found in that region. Your observations should include the facts you have learned. Be sure to do one entry for each of the following regions:
4. Based on your entries, decide which region you would want others from the twentieth century to visit.
5. Write a fourth entry explaining why you have chosen that region. Remember those of us left behind have not had the chance to go there. We depend upon your judgment as to which was the best region to live in.