NAME:

Lesson Title:

The Virginia Joint Stock Company Today

Grade Level:

11

Subject:

US History

Description of Learning Goals, Standards, Objectives

CC/GPSs:

SSUSH1: The student will describe European settlement in North America

during the 17th century.
A. Explain Virginias development; include the Virginia Company, tobacco
cultivation, and relationships with Native Americans such as Powhatan,
development of the House of Burgesses, Bacons Rebellion, and the
development of slavery

National
Technology
Standards:

Category 3: Research and Information Fluency

Long-Term
Learning Goal or
Outcome:

The student should be able to write clearly about how European settlements in
the new world grew economically, and socially through the 17 th century

ABCD Objectives
or Outcomes:

Using different websites the learners will be able to answer certain questions
correctly with the help of a partner. The learner will also be able to engage
their partner with the discussion questions provided.
The last question of the assessment is the ticket out the door for the day which
should be answered in paragraph form

Description of Assessment
Assessment Plan:

I will asses student success by reading the responses to the final question
(ticket out the door). I will be looking for mastery on how the Virginia stock
company played a role in the development of the colony

Description of Activities with Technology and Materials

Activity Design:
Questions which should be answered using links provided
Class starter and lesson
connection:

I will be motivating the students by saying that this lesson has a

clear connection and affect on our modern everyday life.
I will connect it to previous lessons by bringing up our last lesson
on why Virginia was the first permanent settlement.
The students will be using links to answer questions given to
them. I will be walking around the room taking questions from
students who have their hand raised. Students will be working with
a partner of their choosing

Teacher and student

activities:
Will

URLS: http://historicjamestowne.org/history/virginia-

company/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkwilliams/2012/07/24/top10-list-the-greatest-living-business-leaderstoday/#4294564b1703
Technology Connection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_4O3jzW8L0
http://kinfolkstories.com/wpcontent/uploads/2014/11/image5.jpg

Materials and Resources:

Access to multiple computers

Reflection on Lesson Design

Future Actions :

Answer the following questions:

Explain how you incorporated information from the chapter and
D2L modules into this lesson plan.
After considering this lesson plan, what will you do differently
when you design the next lesson in light of your new
understandings?
Or, if you had more time/resources, etc., how would you change
the lesson and/or technology artifact?
How does your technology artifact showcase design principles?
How does your technology artifact require student use of higher
order thinking skills?
How does the technology in your lesson align to the content you
are trying to teach in your lesson?