{"id":2111,"date":"2009-11-23T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2111"},"modified":"2009-11-23T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:52:33","slug":"teaching-virginia-studies-with-childrens-literature-the-story-of-jamestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/23\/teaching-virginia-studies-with-childrens-literature-the-story-of-jamestown\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching History with Children&#8217;s Literature:  The Story of Jamestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/9780736862103.jpg\" title=\"9780736862103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/9780736862103.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"9780736862103.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/The-Story-of-Jamestown\/Eric-Braun\/e\/9780736862103\" title=\"jamestown\">The Story of Jamestown<\/a>, written by Eric Braun, is a book\u00a0that is presented in a format similar to a comic book;\u00a0for that reason it may be attractive to boys in the classroom.\u00a0 It tells the story of the settlement of\u00a0Jamestown, from the initial voyage that sailed from England in December, 1606\u00a0to the 1698 fire that destroyed the settlement.\u00a0 It tells of their interaction with the Indians and their struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<br \/>\n<\/strong>This book can be used to support Virginia Studies SOL VS.3a\/b, as it helps to explain the reasons for English colonization and how the geography influenced the decision to settle in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyglobe.com\/jamestown\/\" title=\"online game\">website<\/a> is an interactive site that allows students to make choices about where and how they would settle if they had been\u00a0on the first ships to arrive from England.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/Games\/InteractiveAdventures\/John-smith\" title=\"Captain John Smith\">National Geographic <\/a>website offers an animated video of the voyage to Jamestown, and includes additional games the students can play to help reinforce the material they are learning about early Virginia history.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/ab.mec.edu\/jamestown\/jamestown.html\" title=\"jamestown\">website<\/a> is quite interesting.\u00a0 It provides\u00a0a great deal of information about the Powhatan Village, the English Ships, and the James\u00a0Fort. Students\u00a0are given options of tabs to click\u00a0on to open pages that give detailed information about fort life, gender roles, navigational tools, and many other aspects of this time period.\u00a0 It also has photographs of artifacts and of the re-created settlements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong> The Story of Jamestown<br \/>\n<strong>Author:<\/strong> Eric Braun<br \/>\n<strong>Illustrators:<\/strong>\u00a0 Steve Erwin, Keith Williams, and Charles Barnett III<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Capstone Press<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 2006<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong> 32<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:<\/strong> 3rd-5th<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:<\/strong>\u00a0 0-7368-4967-X<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of Jamestown, written by Eric Braun, is a book\u00a0that is presented in a format similar to a comic book;\u00a0for that reason it may be attractive to boys in the classroom.\u00a0 It tells the story of the settlement of\u00a0Jamestown, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/23\/teaching-virginia-studies-with-childrens-literature-the-story-of-jamestown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1143,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-graphic-novel","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}