Colony Poster Project - Cedar Ridge Elementary School



Colony Poster/Brochure Project

This is due along with your poster/brochure. Please be sure to use complete sentences, correct spelling, and punctuation.

Colony:__________________________________

Is your colony in the Middle, Southern or New England region? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What year was your colony founded?______________________________

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Who founded your colony and why did they come here?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

Where were most of the settlers in your colony from? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What did the settlers in your colony wear? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What kind of food did the colonists eat?__________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________

What kind of agriculture was in your colony?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What was the land like (flat, coastal, mountains)?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What else did the settlers do to make money or earn a living?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Did the children have to go to school?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Were there a lot of indentured servants or slaves in your colony? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Were there many big cities (urban area) in your colony or was it mostly rural (lots of farms and plantations)? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What was the primary religion? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What important events happened in your colony before 1775?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Draw a sketch of what your colony looks like that you can then put on your poster. Make sure to include major cities, rivers, mountains, and any other land forms that might be important.

Resources:

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Name:__________________________________Colony:_________________________________

13 Colonies Project

• You will be creating a poster or brochure advertising for one of the thirteen North American colonies located in New England, the Middle, or the Southern colonies. You must create your poster/brochure from a colonist’s perspective. You may choose any colony you want. You may work with one partner, or by yourself. The written part of your poster or brochure must have the following three parts:

1. Identify the colony, who its leaders are, and the geography of the colony (including a map)

2. Explain why the colony was started and describe the economics of the colony (how it makes its money)

3. Use persuasive writing to encourage Europeans to come to your colony

• You also must fill out the colony fact sheet. If you are working with a partner each member must turn in his or her own fact sheet. Please use complete sentences when answering the questions.

• The final part of this project is presenting your colony and advertisement to the class. Your job is to pretend you are a colonist and tell us all about your colony and persuade us to come live there.

You will have some class time to do this project. If you do not finish in class you must finish the project out of class on your own time.

RUBRIC

Points |4 |3 |2 |1 |Self |Teacher | |Appearance |Colorful with at least 3 pictures or graphics AND a map |Colorful with 2 pictures or graphics AND a map |Colorful with 1 picture or graphic, AND map is missing |Not colorful, has no pictures, no map and 1 or less graphic | | | |Requirements |Meets all 3 requirements and colony fact sheet filled out with complete sentences |Meets only 2 of the requirements and fact sheet filled out but doesn’t use complete sentences |Meets one of the requirements and fact sheet is missing information or includes inaccurate information |Does not meet requirements and fact sheet is incomplete | | | |Accuracy |Poster is extremely historically accurate |Poster is historically accurate |Poster is somewhat historically accurate |Poster is not historically accurate | | | |Grammar |Has no grammar, punctuation, or spelling mistakes |Has 1-3 grammar, punctuation, or spelling mistakes |Has 4-5 grammar, punctuation, or spelling mistakes |Has more than 5 grammar, punctuation, or spelling mistakes | | | |Creative |Very unique or creative |Unique or creative |Somewhat unique or creative |Not unique or creative | | | |Presentation

|Presentation was informative, engaging and well rehearsed. |Presentation was informative and rehearsed |Presentation was somewhat informative and rehearsed |Presentation was not informative or rehearsed | | | |Sources

|3 or more sources cited and used text evidence to support their answers on fact sheet |3 or more sources cited on fact sheet |1-2 sources cited on fact sheet |No sources cited on fact sheet | | | | | | | |Total

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