Oklahoma Social Studies 5.C.1.5

5.C.1.5 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 5.C.1.5.A

  leadership and diplomacy of Captain John Smith

• 5.C.1.5.B

  challenges of the Starving Time and the value of Powhatan trade to sustain the colony

• 5.C.1.5.C

  export of natural resources and John Rolfe’s development of tobacco as a cash crop

• 5.C.1.5.D

  deteriorating relationships with the Powhatan, characterized by differing views on land ownership.

01

What Students Need to Do

Explain how John Smith's leadership and trade with Powhatan communities helped Jamestown survive. Describe the Starving Time and how timber exports and John Rolfe's tobacco later brought income. Explain how English claims to land increased conflict with Powhatan communities.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student puts Smith's leadership and Powhatan trade before the Starving Time. They explain that tobacco brought export income but also increased demand for farmland. They connect English land claims to worsening relations with Powhatan communities.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think Powhatan communities gave settlers food, rather than trading with them. Some place Smith in charge during the Starving Time, though he had already left. Others think tobacco ended the food shortage or that the land settlers claimed was empty.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a four-box exit ticket labeled Smith and trade, Starving Time, tobacco exports, and land conflict. Ask for one cause or effect in each box.

1. 01

   Give pairs five event cards: Smith's leadership, Powhatan trade, Starving Time, Rolfe's tobacco, and English land expansion; sequence and link them.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: 'Why might an English tobacco farmer and a Powhatan leader disagree about who could use a field?'

3. 03

   Play a cause-and-effect matching game with cards for lost trade, the Starving Time, timber exports, tobacco farms, and land conflict.

4. 04

   Show a local parcel map and ask who can approve building there; compare that decision with English claims on Powhatan land.

• 5.C.1

  Examine and compare the Jamestown and Plymouth settlements as the foundations of American culture and society.

• 5.C.1.6

  Explain the English commitment to the permanent settlement at Jamestown as evidenced through an elected representative government (House of Burgesses), private ...

• 5.C.1.8

  Explain the early successes and challenges for Pilgrims of the Plymouth settlement including the

• 5.C.1.3

  Explain England’s goals for the settlement of Virginia, including attempts to stake claim on North America at Roanoke and to develop Jamestown as a profit ventu...