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Grade 2 History and Social Studies Week 3 | Student Textbook

Grade 2 | HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

WEEK 3 • STUDENT TEXTBOOK • DAYS 11–15

Read each lesson with a parent or teacher and study the worked example. Then answer the questions for that day in the Week 3 Practice Workbook.

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Day 11: What Is a Colony?

A colony is a place settled by people from another country and ruled by that country. Long ago, people from England sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and started colonies along the east coast of North America.

Over time there were 13 English colonies. Many American Indian nations already lived on this land before the colonists came. The 13 colonies later became the first 13 states of the United States.

Worked example: Across which ocean did English colonists sail to reach North America?

  1. England is east of North America.
  2. The ocean between them is on the east coast of North America.
  3. That ocean is the Atlantic.

Worked answer: The Atlantic Ocean.

Day 12: Jamestown, 1607

In 1607, a group of English settlers started Jamestown in what is now Virginia. It was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.

Many Jamestown settlers hoped to find gold and to make money through trade. Life was very hard at first. Later, the colonists grew tobacco to sell, and the colony began to last.

Worked example: How many years ago was Jamestown started, counting to the year 2007?

  1. Jamestown began in 1607.
  2. From 1607 to 2007 is 400 years.

Worked answer: 400 years.

Day 13: Plymouth, 1620

In 1620, a ship called the Mayflower brought a group of English people, later called the Pilgrims, to Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts.

Many of the Pilgrims came because they wanted the freedom to worship in their own way. In England, the king’s laws did not allow them to. Wampanoag people, who lived in the area, helped the Pilgrims learn to grow corn.

Worked example: What was the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims?

  1. Find the ship’s name in the lesson.
  2. The lesson says a ship called the Mayflower brought them.

Worked answer: The Mayflower.

Day 14: Many Reasons to Come

People came to the colonies for many reasons. Some wanted land to farm. Some wanted to trade and earn money. Some wanted freedom to worship. Some wanted a new start.

Not everyone came by choice. Many Africans were captured and brought to the colonies against their will and were enslaved. Their story is part of American history too.

Worked example: A family wanted their own land to grow crops. Which reason for coming does that show?

  1. Growing crops is farming.
  2. The family wanted land to farm.

Worked answer: Land to farm.

Day 15: Independent Check: The Colonies

Today you will read new information and answer on your own.

Use what you learned this week: what a colony is, why settlers came, and how Jamestown and Plymouth were different.

Worked example: In what year did the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth?

  1. Remember the Plymouth lesson from Day 13.
  2. The Mayflower arrived in 1620.

Worked answer: 1620.

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