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SET:
OBJECTIVE:
1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge about why Englishmen wanted to colonize, and how the corporate land companies were started.
2. Students will assure the roles of investors and write letters to the King of England asking for charters to colonize in the New World.
RATIONALE: It is important for students to understand who invested in the colonization of the America and that the notion for many investors was greed and the desire to become wealthier. Also these investment companies were financially important to England because it provided England with a substantial amount of money.
INVOLVEMENT OF LEARNERS: Do any of you know what the stock market is, or how it works?
TRANSITION: People who invested in the colonizes were rich Englishmen who hoped to become richer after they colonized. Investors believed that the Americans contained precious metals, furs, and quicker route to Asia.
EXPECTATIONS:
1. Companies that colonized new territories were generally comprised of rich men who either noblemen, gentlemen or merchants.
a. Define and explain nobleman, gentlemen and merchants to students.
b. Ask students to cite some colonial examples of the three.
c. Ask the students to cite some present day examples of the three.
2. Investors believed that a lot of money could be made by colonizing the Americas and the companies that they found often turned into monopolies.
a. Ask students what a monopoly is , and how is it beneficial.
3. Tell students that investors usually remained in England and were called Adventurers. Have students brainstorm about why an Investor may have been called an Adventurer.
4. Ask students what was a corporate colony. If they respond correctly, then restate the definition. If they respond incorrectly give them the correct definition.
ACTIVITIES:
1. Place students in groups of four (group number and sizes may vary with class size) Each group will be a colonizing corporation.
2. Tell students to choose names for their corporations.
3. Give students a blank map of the United States that contains physical features such as mountains, rivers, oceans, etc.
4. Tell students to choose and area to colonize and to be aware of what type of physical features, would be in their areas.
5. Tell students that a group of men that wanted a charter were called stockholders, and in order to obtain a charter they had to request one from the king.
6. Have students brainstorm about how they would make a monopoly out of their area by what was there (ex. timber, animals, precious metals).
7. Tell students to jointly write a letter to the King of England explaining why they wanted to obtain a charter to colonize in the Americas.
8. Choose a representative from each group to present to the class their group letter. Also have representatives talk about their groups colony and the potential monopoly.
CLOSURE:
1. Ask students what are monopolies and how do they work.
2. Ask students what is a proprietary colony.
3. Ask students what is a stockholder.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bragdon, McCutchen, and Ritchie History of a Free Nation New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1996.
This book was compiled as an aid to teachers to help their students in enhancing their knowledge in historical studies. Students will have the opportunity to learn about "The New World in Transition, Prehistory to 1500's" to "Toward a New Century, 1992-Present. This book was designed to give students an overview of critical and defining moments in our world's history.
Hakim The History of the US., the First Americans New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Hakim's first book gives readers an in-depth look into numerous influential groups of people throughout history. The major themes of Hakim's book one focuses on the importance of history, the importance of the New World, and the lifestyles and the ways of the the people of that world. The general purpose of this book is to show how the various influential groups became Americans.
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