Leadership in Jamestown
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Assessment for K-12:
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- Have students read a
short biography of an actual leader of Jamestown, John Smith (or
read a biography
of John Smith at the Jamestown Rediscovery site). They should then evaluate
John Smith as a leader according to the categories in the ratings
analysis chart, and decide which candidate John Smith resembles
most.
- Then, they should write answers to the following questions:
- What are some of the problems John Smith had to deal with as the leader
of Jamestown?
- Do you think John Smith's experience helped him be a leader in the
colony?
Center
for Technology and Teacher Education,
University of Virginia. This
module is based on the work of Mickey Hickman and Erin Wigginton and
was modified and adapted to the web by
Sonja Czarnecki of the University of Virginia.