Do Now

Answer the following questions to the

best of your ability on a piece of loose
leaf paper:

 How long has your family lived

in America?

Why did your family come to

America?
 Learning Target/Agenda
Learning Target: I can compare and contrast
similarities and differences between the original
thirteen colonies.

Agenda:
 Do Now: My America questions
 Individual Practice: Introduction to
Colonization; map work
 Group Practice: Thirteen Colonies Chart
 Homework: My America, Colonial Brochure
 Vocabulary
Colonization: when a group of people
move to a new place but maintain social
and economic ties to their home country

Colonists: people who participating in

colonization

Colony: where colonists live

 Notes
American Colonies:
 thirteen colonies at the time of the
Revolutionary war

 all colonies were governed and

controlled by Great Britain (England)

 three types of colonies: Northern/New

England, Middle, and Southern
Notes