DBQ

Background info
Jamestown was near chesapeake bay and they are up the James river. They had about 300
people come on three ships. They had a challenge to face and many people died and the
people did not live to be a new colony with texcoco. Many people here were poor and wanted to
get a land piece to be able to live more easily
Begin Document Analysis here:
Document:A
Facts:
1. Fish are present in the local streams, but only in the spring and early summer are they there
in impressive abundance
a. Inference: Fish was not a good reliable source of food that people could eat and
if the water was brackish with salt crops might of not live because salt is not good for
crops so food might of been hard to come by.
2.They use the river as a restroom and the tide with the river might of not kept the crap away
a. Inference: This could be damental to the people's health they would die because
of it
3. The river and the water would sometimes would have salt depending on the tide.
a. Inference: The salt of the river would kill the crops the people would not like the
water and fish would change and this would be an unreliable source.
Document:B
Facts:
1.Many years the rainfall was really low as they are from the growth rings inside the trees
a. Inference: This means that they had to use the water in the river than the rain
because some years did not have good rain
2. The rain was really unstable it would spike over many years and it would go down more often
b. Inference: This means that people had some good years for the crops while
some years there was hardly any rain in some years because there was -3 avg rainfall
for some years.
3. One of the steepest spikes was named the jamestown drought where it was +2.2 avg rain to
-2 avg rain and it last in the negatives for 10 years
b. Inference: This made it seem that people could of died because of the drought
and crops were also going through the hard times.
Document:C
Facts:
1. For the frist ship they only brought people who are needed to help make a town
while they did not bring people that make things that rich people could buy
b. Inference: This shows that frist ships just wanted to live and they wanted money
too because most of them were poor and they took the risk of dying.
2. The resupply shipment brought many of the other jobs that could make objects and still
brought many labors and gentleman.

c. Inference: The people in england though many people died because they
brought the wrong people so they did not bring the other people who had different skills.
3. Only men came on the ship on the frist one it was 110 and on the resupply there was 120
men joining.
c. Inference: Back then people were kind of still sexist to women's rights and they
were probably not able to join as it was a big risk.
Document:D
Facts:
1. Many people with Francis West went to trade with the tribes there to get wheat
and this was in 1609
c. Inference: The thing about this year is that they got a lot of rain
2. The trade made the tribes think this would help with the coming winter but it would not last
d. Inference: That means that people who started to trade would make the deal
more in their flavor though this doc is a secondary source
3. They also traded with the james town people and they might of hurt themselves with the trade
while the ship trading had a load of food to get home
d. Inference: This means that people did somewhat not care for the townspeople
because they made the trade in their flavor
Document:E
Facts:
1. Many people died from sickness from the summer after 5 people die of indian
raids
d. Inference: Disease was somewhat of a factor but it comes from other factors
2. In 1608 they brought about 170 people from ships because people were dying.
e. Inference: They really thought that new people could help this investment of
people getting land and investors getting money.
3. At 1609-1610 they had died of disease because half the town died and indians kill another 50
people and they sent 250 people
e. Inference: The indians did not like the settlers and disease always killed about
half of the population.

Begin Outline here: Please follow outline process- Look at the 5 paragraph construction as a
model of how your outline should look.
Who thought that a country that has 324,118,787 people would be empty 400 years ago and the
land was unthought of. This was america back in 1600 people were just started going there to
make a town called Jamestown. Jamestown was in modern day vigina up the chesapeake bay
to hide from the spanish. Jamestown had a lot deaths in the early years and there are many
reasons but the biggest factor is their poor choices that they made. There are many reasons like
their placement, second is their choices that they did to the natives , and the bad choice of
people.
Frist paragraph- placements/environment

Evidence one: (map) The settlers started going up stream of virginia and the chesapeake bay
where they settled to a place that would impact their health a lot. They had brackish water (doc
A). They also did not have a lot of rain (doc B) Fish was hard to get (doc A) Crops would die
from the salt (general info). They also did not build their forts near their settlements (map) and
that would let them get attack from tribes that were closer than the forts to the settlements.
Justification: The reason why they got killed is because of their placement shows that it shoulds
how many people die early from their placement. This is because if they made a better choice
of going more up the river they would not have so many factors that impact their lives. From the
rain the brackish water to the fish they would perish from their choices.
Second paragraph - Natives
Evidence- building off of paragraph one of the natives being closer than the forts to the
settlements the natives would kill about 55 people from 1607-1610 and that is showing how bad
they could defend themselves. The other thing about the natives is that from the beginning they
probably not like them that much because they might steal the fish and the rivers might have
crap in them that would impact the natives lives. The people also would have problems with the
colonist because they would take some people and during 1616 Pocahontas would visit the king
and it would cause disrupt in the tribes.
Justification: After building off of the idea of the natives being a factor of the deaths of the
colonist is that it would come back to the claim of their poor decisions of their placement and not
making good friends of the natives because it would come back to kill them.
Third paragraph- bad choice of people
Evidence- They only brought one surgeon and no doctors for drug use. They did not bring many
labor people and there were too many gentlemen (doc C) The other thing is that there was only
men on the ships. The other things that most needed job only had one person so that would
make it that if that person died the other people would need the occupation unknown people to
help make up that job so they should have plan the people coming better or get more people to
have more specialists for the needed jobs.
Justification- This would make people would have to take a chance to hope that certain people
would not die or else it would hinder their process and survival rate. They would avoid this if
they did not have the poor choices that they made and you can blame the people you could
blame the king for not taking more time to make this journey safer.
Conclusion- The best way to say how the settlers of Jamestown died so quickly it that they have
made a bad choice to many things that would impact their lives much more than they would
think. It would be all better if they made choices that would come back to kill them like the
natives the people and the placements of the forts. It still through makes me think what would
happen if we never had settlers of Jamestown what would happen to history if people made
better choices how many people would not died in Jamestown.

Begin Essay here: Please follow model below

Who thought that a country that has 324,118,787 people would be empty about 400
years ago and the land was unthought of. This was america back in the 1600s, people were
just started to travel there to make a town called Jamestown. Jamestown was in modern day
vigina up the chesapeake bay to hide from the spaniards. Jamestown had a lot deaths in the
early years and there are many reasons ,but the biggest factor is their poor choices that
they made. There are many reasons like their placement, second, the natives that were in the
area, and the bad choice of people.
The frist people of Jamestown went up the river connected to chesapeake bay
where they made a terrible choice that would help kill them because they did not go
further upstream. The placement of their settlements was near water where the tides could
make the water brackish or salty that would impact their crops. (Doc A) The salty water would
kill crops because crops will die from the salt. The rain was something they could not rely on
because in most years it would go under the avg. rainfall with their droughts (doc B). The fish
were also not reliable because they would only come during spring and early summer ,and the
water would also have their crap so they would have diseases from their crap because they
drank from the river (Doc A). The reason why this could be avoided if they just went further
upstream is that they could get farther from the ocean so the spaniards would not get
them and they would not have many factors to their lives that would kill them.
The other thing about the area was that they settled in, was that it was full of
natives that were not kind of new invaders. The tribe was known as the Powhatan natives
and they were at peace until more tribes started attacking them.(map and doc E) The english
also did steal people like pocahontas visited the Henry the 8th after pocahontas was taken from
her land and she was forced married an englishman. They also had bad defenses because the
map only shows principal tribes there could be many smaller tribes that would try to fight
because it started out as two people dead from natives than 3 then 60 in three years. (Doc
E)The other part is that this was their poor choices to live near natives who would kill many of
them.(map) They also had more reasons to improve natives relationship with the english
people. The reason why trade would be better is they would not dead from being cocky with
their forts placements.The way it connects to the claim of poor choices is that if they did
not make the natives enraged than they would not be die because of the natives.
The frist ships that went to Jamestown was not planned well. The frist ship had 47
gentlemen who wanted to have land and there was 110 people on the ship. The gentlemen had
money and they would not work effectively ,so they would not help as much with surviving and
were just on the trip to get land and estate. The important people who would help people survive
in the new land was the carpenter, blacksmith, labours,surgeons, and apothecaries(Doc C).
There was only 18 people with one of these jobs so the town had a low chance of survive with
slow progress. They also only have men on the ships ,and no woman came (Doc C). For the
second ship there was fewer gentlemen and more labors and it did help because there was a

well provised winter and only 8 died from winter and their was more apothecaries though
disease would kill about 110 if you add in famine deaths because of food. The reason why I say
that they could plan better and better choices is that they could invest more money to get people
to come and get more land and they did have experience from the spaniards trying to live there
(from Natalie) they did already have people trying to get their so people would have experience
from attempts from before. The people who planned this trip made bad decisions because
they could have more people on the trip and bring more people who can help the survival
rate in the town.
The best way to say how the settlers of Jamestown died so quickly is that they had
made bad choices too many things that would impact their lives much more than they
would think. It would be all better if they did not make choices that would come back to kill
them like the natives, the people ,and the placements of their forts and settlements even the
people planning cause their own doom. What would happen if the settlers of Jamestown made
better choices how many people would not die in Jamestown.

5 Paragraph Essay construction

Introduction
Grabber- What can you say about the topic to grab the attention of
the reader?
Claim Is it arguable? Facts are not claims
It cant be too general, or too specific
Does it address the prompt?
Is interesting?
Is it clear and concise?
Back ground What are the important details that the reader
needs to know about your topic?
Roadmap This is where you briefly introduce the reasons you
have to defend your claim.
Clearly stated, concise

Body Paragraphs
State your Reason
Is it arguable? This is like a subclaim, cant be a
fact
Does your reason support your claim?
Present evidence
Must quote and cite your sources
Several pieces of evidence help in convincing your
reader you are correct
The more evidence the easier your warrant will be
Justification (Warrant, Argument)

 How does your evidence support your reason?

Claim? Answering this question will provide you with a justification

Conclusion

Restate your claim

It can be worded a little differently if you wish
Provide Insight
A short summary of your warrants
Provide a Wrinkle
What could be a reason thats not as
obvious, or that was not previously presented in your essay
This is a chance to allow your reader
to further think about your topic after theyve read it.

Five Paragraph Essay Draft Checklist

Revision Process:
1. Before Peer Review, read your paper and complete the self-check using this checklist.
2. With your peer, take turns reading each others essay aloud. You will use this checklist to check one anothers
papers.
a. Bold your Claim
b. Highlight your Roadmap
c. Bold your reasons
d. Highlight your evidence
e. Bold your justifications
f.
Highlight your Wrinkle
3. Partners should do the highlighting and bolding to ensure that all major parts of the essay are present.

Essay Component

Self
Check

Peer
Chec
k

x
x

Introduction
Grabber- What can you say about the
topic to grab the attention of the reader?
Claim
Is it
arguable? Facts are not claims
It cant be too
general, or too specific
Does it
address the prompt?
Is
interesting?
Is it clear and
concise?
Back ground
What are the
important details that the reader needs to know about your topic?
Roadmap
This is where
you briefly introduce the reasons you have to defend your claim.
Clearly
stated, concise

x
Not
sure

Body Paragraph #1

Subclaim - State your Reason

Is it
arguable? This is like a subclaim, cant be a fact
Does your
reason support your claim?
Present evidence
Must quote
and cite your sources
Several
pieces of evidence help in convincing your reader you are correct
The more
evidence the easier your warrant will be
Justification (Warrant, Reasoning,
Argument)
How does
your evidence support your reason? Claim? Answering this question
will provide you with a warrant

Not
sure

Body Paragraph #2

Subclaim - State your Reason

Is it
arguable? This is like a subclaim, cant be a fact
Does your
reason support your claim?
Present evidence
Must quote
and cite your sources
Several
pieces of evidence help in convincing your reader you are correct
The more
evidence the easier your warrant will be
Justification (Warrant, Reasoning, Argument)
How does
your evidence support your reason? Claim? Answering this question
will provide you with a warrant

Body Paragraph #3

Subclaim - State your Reason

Is it
arguable? This is like a subclaim, cant be a fact
Does your
reason support your claim?
Present evidence
Must quote
and cite your sources
Several
pieces of evidence help in convincing your reader you are correct
The more
evidence the easier your warrant will be
Justification (Warrant, Reasoning, Argument)
How does
your evidence support your reason? Claim? Answering this question
will provide you with a warrant

Not
sure

not
sure
x

Conclusion
Restate your
claim- (It can be worded a little differently if you wish)
Provide
Insight A short summary of your reasoning.
Provide a

Wrinkle (Give your reader something to further think about after

reading your paper)

When you have finished your essay please answer the following questions
Stars and Steps
Stars

Steps

I say that I did the evidence part of the essay

well the reason why I say that is that I have a
lot for evidence that was from documents.

I need to work on making more apparent just

flation and grammar.

Can not find it .

If I made a counterclaim is that I would add

the unpreparedness of the people.

I would say the evidence was the strongest

part.

Is that I need to be reminded about certain

parts of the essay .

That would be my grammar.

I should be getting more used to use a

counterclaim.
Yes because I would get reminded about
justification.
I should use better word choice .
Could not remember it or find it .

Advanced
Claim
(Thesis,
Topic
Sentence)
Reasons
(Supporting
Details)
Evidence
(Text
Support)
Warrant/A

Opening contains a
clear, high-level claim
Answers the prompt
Provides
background which sets
the context for the piece
Provides a grabber
Provides a roadmap
More than 3 specific
reasons support the claim
Specific, compelling
text evidence for each
reason, properly cited
Provides warrants or
arguments for why text
evidence supports the

Proficient
Opening has a clear
claim
Mostly answers the
prompt
Some background
Free of supports,
pronouns, I think
statements
3 specific reasons
support the claim
Specific text evidence
for each reason
Properly cites the
evidence
Provides some
argument for why text

Partially Proficient
Opening just repeats the
prompt or does not have a
clear claim
Does not answer the
prompt
Does not include titles
Includes supports,
pronouns, I think statements
Less than 3 specific
reasons support the claim
Specific text evidence not
provided for each reason, and
or not cited
Does not provide
warrants for why text evidence
supports the claim

rgument
Counter
argument

Style and
Fluency

Conclusio
n

claim/reason and
elaboration beyond the
obvious. Qualifiers are
used during the process
of argumentation.
Maintains clear
order, logic and transition
words between reasons,
using sophisticated
language
Counter argument
has all of the above
except argues to the
contrary, include a clear
rebuttal of the argument
Advanced, precise
vocabulary appropriate
for audience and purpose
Advanced language:
active verbs, figurative
language, imagery,
effective adjectives
Fluent variety of
sentence beginnings,
structures, length
Legible, neat, and
error-free
Ties the claim to a
larger idea: self, the
world, other literature
Includes a wrinkle
and insight

evidence supports the

claim
Maintains some order,
logic and/or transition
words between reasons

Maintains little or no
order, logic or transition words
between reasons

Vocabulary
appropriate for audience
and purpose
Some advanced
language: active verbs,
figurative language,
imagery, effective
adjectives
Some variety of
sentence beginnings,
structures, and length
Mostly legible, neat,
and error-free
Ties the claim to a
larger idea but is clumsy or
forced.

General word choice;

occasional errors in word
usage
Mostly common or dead
verbs (is, did, go), imprecise or
colorless verbs or adjectives,
common phrases
Little variety of sentence
beginnings, structure, or
length; contains run-on or
incomplete sentences
Legible but sloppy or full
of errors
Repeats the claim
statement or supports
No conclusion