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From The Back Files: Ghana Session, Thirteen British Colonies, American Rebels
During a recent Ghana session, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School students did presentations on the Thirteen British Colonies.
During a recent Ghana session, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School students did presentations on the Thirteen British Colonies.
Thirteen British Colonies
Each student was assigned a colony in which they created a power point presentation that explained the founder, the environment, business, and the quality of life.
American Revolution
Once the MLK students were done with their presentations, Mr. Wronko showed the students from Ghana a video on Rebels of the American Revolution. This video was from the Discovery Channel along with the following:
The American Revolution seems doomed as the British army launches a bold new campaign in the south, but five unsung patriots help reverse the course of the war and shock the world.
Unsung patriots
Nancy Hart, a Georgia mother of eight, battles a patrol of loyalists single-handed.
Elizabeth Burgin attempts a daring rescue of American POW’s in Brooklyn.
A super-sized soldier named Peter Francisco becomes a legend on the battlefield.
A Virginia slave, James Armistead, steals key secrets leading to a stunning victory at Yorktown.
A frontier teenager called Betty Zane runs to save the Revolution’s final battle.
In addition, a chart of the Thirteen British Colonies:
| Colony | Region | Founder | Founded | Purpose | Note | |
| Roanoke | Southern | Sir Walter Raleigh | 1585 | Establish English colony in New World | Colonists disappeared without a trace. | |
| Virginia | Southern | John Smith | 1607 | Trade and profits | Founded as joint-stock company. House of Burgesses (1619). Only 60 of 1st 900 colonists survived. | |
| Plymouth | New England | William Bradford | 1620 | Religious freedom for Separatists | Mayflower Compact. Led by William Bradford | |
| New York | Middle | Peter Minuit | 1626 | Trade and profits | Set up as Dutch colony, taken over by English in 1664 | |
| Massachusetts Bay | New England | John Winthrop | 1630 | Religious freedom for Puritans | Led by John Winthrop. 18,000 settlers by 1642 | |
| New Hampshire | New England | John Mason | 1630 | Escape for those constricted by religious and economic rules | Puritan harshness led these settlers north and inland. | |
| Maryland | Middle | George Calvert | 1634 | Religious freedom for Catholics | Founded by George Calvert. Slow growing (only 600 by 1650. Maryland Toleration Act (1649) | |
| Connecticut | New England | Thomas Hooker | 1636 | Religious and economic freedom | Leaders of Massachusetts asked Hooker and followers to leave. | |
| Rhode Island | New England | Roger Williams | 1636 | Religious freedom | Williams set up most tolerant colony | |
| Delaware | Middle | Peter Minuit | 1638 | Trade and profits | Established by Sweden; taken by English in 1664 | |
| North Carolina | Southern | Group of proprietors | 1653 | Trade and profits | Joint business venture | |
| New Jersey | Middle | Lord Berkeley | 1660 | Trade and profits | Established by Sweden; taken by English in 1664 | |
| South Carolina | Southern | Group of proprietors | 1670 | Trade and profits | Rice major crop. | |
| Pennsylvania | Middle | William Penn | 1682 | Religious freedom for Quakers; trade and profits | Originally Quaker, this colony became home to many European immigrants | |
| Georgia | Southern | James Oglethorpe | 1733 | Debtor colony. Buffer for Spanish colonies Restrictions on blacks,size of plantations kept colony small. |
This chart was from: http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/colchart.html
Furthermore, the featured image project was done by Jaione Murray.
Also a presentation based on the Thirteen Colonies was done by Dakim Randolph.
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