8th Grade WAVE Humanities Summer 2016 Assignment
Name: ____________________________________________________ Date:__________ Humanities Teacher:___________
Blood on the River: James Town, 1607: TRIPLE TIMELINE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
1) Read Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 by Elisa Carbone. Complete the triple timeline below, using the novel, and other reference materials as needed. You will
submit a print copy during the first week of school for a double daily grade. You are not required to use the grid below, but please make sure your timelines fit on the
front of a single page.
2) Timeline 1 - Track the changes the main character, Samuel Collier, experiences from the beginning of the novel to the end. Pay attention to his emotional/psychological
changes as well as changes in his circumstances. For each change, note a page # where you find the text evidence to demonstrate this change. Quote from the text in at
least three of the five items you provide. Timeline 2: Track the changes of Jamestown colony as described in the novel. For each change you note, note a page # where
you find text evidence to demonstrate this change. Quote from the text in at least three of the five items you provide. Timeline 3: Use another resource to help yourself
track the first 50 years of English colonization (roughly 1580s-1630)
3) Answer the questions/prompts on the other side of this sheet.
SAMUEL COLLIER’S CHANGES, 1607 -1661, AS SHOWN IN BLOOD ON THE RIVER BY ELISA CARBONE
DATE: 1607
Event #2:
Event #3:
Event #4:
Event #5:
Samuel Collier
arrives with other
original Jamestown
colonists to
establish new
England colony
Event #6:
DATE: 1611
CHANGES IN JAMESTOWN COLONY, 1607-1611, AS SHOWN IN BLOOD ON THE RIVER BY ELISA CARBONE
DATE: 1607
Page #
Page #
Page #
Page #
Page #
DATE: 1611
DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH COLONIES, 1580s THROUGH 1630s
DATE: 1585
Date #2:
Date #3:
Date #6:
DATE: 1630s
Massachusetts Bay
Colony founded
(1630) Connecticut
(1635) and Rhode
Island (1636) are
founded
Colony of Roanoke
founded in Virginia
(in what is now
North Carolina)
Date #4:
Date #5:
8th Grade WAVE Humanities Summer 2016 Assignment
Name: ____________________________________________________ Date:__________ Humanities Teacher:___________
QUESTIONS/PROMPTS:
1. Write ONE sentence that states the most important changes that happen to Samuel Collier during the course of the novel Blood on the River by Elisa
Carbone.
2. Write ONE sentence that states the most important change that happens to the colony of Jamestown between 1607 and 1611, as described in the
novel.
3. Write ONE sentence that states the most important factors that emerged in the development of English colonies between 1580-1630, based on the
additional reading you have done. (A factor is some kind of ingredient or component or element of a bigger thing. Common factors in history include
political influences, the power of a group of people or of individual people, economic changes, social status and order, geographic and geologic
factors of a setting like landforms or weather. There are other kinds of factors as well.)
WRITE A QUESTION: Pretend your class is going to have an in-depth discussion about the novel and your timelines. Write a question that will prompt
interesting and insightful discussion among your classmates about the book and/or colonial development.