IMMERSION TRIP 9TH GRADE PASSPORT

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Grading Rubric

50% of your Immersion Trip grade will be participation, 50% of your grade will be your passport. • The completed Passport should:

> Be turned in on time

> Have all required parts completed

> Be accurate and provide factual responses

> Show thoughtful reflection as appropriate

> Show the making of connections between experiences and the big question

PASSPORT RUBRIC Student has completed all required parts with high quality

A/95

Student has completed all required parts but quality needs some improvement

B/85

Student has completed all required parts with poor quality OR stu- C/75 dent has some parts with high quality but is missing components Student is missing required parts and parts present need improvement

D/65

Student missed deadline or has done minimal work of poor quality

F/59

• Participation is more than simply being present. 50% of your Immersion Trip grade will be based on how active and positive your attitude is throughout your Immersion Trip experience.

PARTICIPATION RUBRIC Student has actively participated in all aspects of the Immersion Trip and consistently demonstrated a positive attitude

A/95

Student has actively participated in most aspects of the Immersion Trip and demonstrated a good attitude

B/85

Student has participated in some aspects of the Immersion Trip and demonstrated a satisfactory attitude

C/75

Student has failed to consistently participate in several aspects of the Immersion Trip and demonstrated a poor attitude

D/65

Student has failed to actively participate in most aspects of the Immersion Trip and demonstrated a negative attitude

F/59

Emergency Numbers Christchurch Administrator (804) 815-3449

Pre-Trip Reflection Answer both questions using a combined minimum of 250 words, make sure you answer both reflection questions. Your answers need to be typed and stapled to the inside of this Passport.

1. Describe the following: • Where you are from (town or city, small or large population, rural, urban, suburban, etc.)

• A physical place to which you have the greatest connection and why it is important to you?

• A social group with which you have a strong connection and why they are important to you? (family, team, church group, youth group) 2. Think about your Freshman Immersion Trip. What are your expectations about the trip?

What will you be doing? How will it feel? How will it be challenging? How do you think your background will influence your experience on the trip?

Table of Contents Big Question / Substainability Fractal........................................ 1 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Map................................................ 2 Chesapeake Bay in 1600............................................................ 3 Tidewater/Creek and River Map................................................. 4 Exploring Morris Creek and Chickahominy River.........................5 Chickahominy River Experience.................................................. 6 Chickahominy Tribe Experience.................................................. 7-8 Jamestown Settlement Experience............................................. 9-11 Culture Clash.............................................................................. 12 Colonial Williamsburg Experience.............................................. 13-15 Richmond Road Reflection.......................................................... 16 We Are What We Eat.................................................................. 17 Wrap Up Reflection..................................................................... 18 Personal Journal/Notes.............................................................. 19-20

Journey at the River

Our Place, Our selves, Our community The Big Question How has the relationship between people and the local environment in tidewater Virginia changed since Europeans arrived? What lessons can we learn from this changing relationship in order to be more responsible citizens and stewards in the present and the future?

Sustainability Fractal

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Chesapeake Bay Watershed

What is a watershed?_____________________________________________________________________________________

Instructions Outline Tidewater Virginia locate and label the following on the map: (write the number on the map instead of the words) 1.

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Atlantic Ocean Rappahannock River Piankatank River York River James River Christchurch School Williamsburg

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Chesapeake Bay in 1600

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Tidewater Virginia Map Map 3 below

Locate and label the following on the map: (write the number on the map instead of the words) 1.

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Chickahominy River Jamestown Island James River York River Williamsburg Chesapeake Bay

Creek and River Map

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Canoe put in location Canoe take out location Campsite Fishing site Marsh mucking location Sacred spot Observ. Station location

Exploring Morris Creek and the Chickahominy River A Timeless Tributary

You are an early Algonquin Indian who is trying to convince your people that this river is a good place to come and settle. Using all of your senses, describe the area and how it would be a great place to meet your people’s needs.

• food

• water

• shelter

• trade

• spirituality

• government

Imagine you can only communicate with a picture. Use your experience on the river and imagination to sketch a picture of your description above.

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Chickahominy Tribe Experience INVESTIGATION

You are going to have a unique opportunity to sit down and spend time getting to know members of the Chickahominy Tribe. Remember that they are our neighbors and have the deepest roots in our place in tidewater Virginia. Be active listeners and take advantage of opportunities to ask questions.

Make a positive impression.

Below are three topics that you will learn more about from talking with members of the Chickahominy Tribe. Knowing about these three topics will help you identify with how people have used our common place throughout history.

1. PEOPLE: The social structure and change that the tribe has gone through over time in order to meet its wants and needs (examples - government, laws, education, social hierarchy, etc).

2. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: The tribe’s connection with and impact on the natural environment in tidewater VA in their effort to meet their wants and needs (examples - food, water, shelter, power, recreation, spiritual connections to the environment, etc.).

3. IDENTITY: The core of the Chickahominy Tribe’s identity (examples - beliefs, values, religion, tradition, overcoming challenges, history, origins, pride, symbols, individuality, outsiders perspective, etc.).

You and your classmates will need to brainstorm interview questions that will help you learn more about these topics. List your interview questions below.

When the time comes you will be using your questions to interview people about the topics above.

Please take notes. The conversation and experience you have, and notes that you take, will be the material that you will use for your reflections in the passport.

Use this space and the following page to list your class’s interview questions and answers.

PEOPLE Questions:

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NATURAL ENVIORNMENT Questions:

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IDENTITY Questions:

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Dear Sarah Reflection Imagine that you and your family have been members of the Chickahominy Tribe since before John Smith arrived at Jamestowne. A woman named Sarah has contacted you out of the blue and tells you that her great-great-grandparents were members of the Chickahominy Tribe. She is very interested in finding out about her family’s roots. Write a letter to Sarah about how her people have changed over time, and how it feels to be a member of the Chickahominy Tribe in 2012.

Dear Sarah,

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Jamestown Experience In the outline provided sketch the layout of the original Jamestown Fort. Be sure to include and label all of the structures that would have aided the settlers in meeting their basic needs (food, water, shelter, trade, transportation, spirituality, and government).

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INVESTIGATION To many, Jamestown was the beginning of the United States. That very notion is extremely controversial. You are going to spend time investigating Jamestown and deciding for yourselves what the significance of the settlement was for tidewater Virginia and beyond. Please use the interpreters, fort, grounds, ships, etc. to help in your investigation.

Below are three topics that you will learn more about from interacting with the Jamestown Settlement. Knowing about these three topics will help you identify how people have used our common place differently over time.

1. PEOPLE: The social structure and change that the settlers went through over time to meet their wants and needs (examples - government, laws, education, social hierarchy, etc).

2. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: Jamestown’s connection with and impact on the natural environment in tidewater Virginia in their effort to meet their wants and needs (examples food, water, shelter, power, recreation, spiritual connections to the environment, etc).

3. IDENTITY: The core of Jamestown’s identity (examples - beliefs, values, religion, tradition, overcoming challenges, history, origins, pride, symbols, individuality, outsiders perspective, etc).

You and your classmates will need to brainstorm interview questions that will help you learn more about these topics. Think about what you need to ask in order to learn about these topics.

When the time comes you will be using your questions to interview people about the topics above.

Please take notes. The conversation and experience you have, and notes that you take, will be the material that you will use for your reflections in the passport.

Use this space and the following page to list your class’s interview questions and answers.

PEOPLE Questions:

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NATURAL ENVIORNMENT Questions:

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IDENTITY Questions:

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Culture Clash What are some fundamental differences between how the Chickahominy Tribe and the Jamestown settlers met their basic needs? Use drawings/illustrations to identify how each of the following needs were met.

Chickahominy Tribe

Jamestown Settlement Food

Drinking Water

Shelter

Trade

Transportation

Spirituality

Government

Why did the Chickahominy Tribe and Jamestown settlers choose tidewater, Virginia to meet their needs? Based upon the collection of your illustrations above, summerize in your own words the intentions of the two societies?

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Colonial Williamsburg Experience

The capitol of change

INVESTIGATION Less than 250 years ago Colonial Williamsburg was a capitol city that represented a new way of life in tidewater Virginia. Use as many resources as you can while in Colonial Williamsburg to find out how the establishment of the town changed everything.

Below are three topics that you will learn more about from interacting with Colonial Williamsburg.

These three topics will help you identify how people have used our common place throughout history.

1. PEOPLE: The social structure and change that Colonial Williamsburg went through over time in order to meet its wants and needs (examples - government, laws, education, social hierarchy, etc).

2. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: Colonial Williamsburg’s connection with, and impact on, the natural environment in tidewater Virginia in their effort to meet their wants and needs (examples - food, water, shelter, power, recreation, spiritual connections to the environment, etc).

3. IDENTITY: The core of Colonial Williamsburg’s identity (examples - beliefs, values, religion, tradition, overcoming challenges, history, origins, pride, symbols, individuality, outsiders perspective, etc.).

You and your classmates will need to brainstorm interview questions that will help you learn more about these topics.

When the time comes you will be using your questions to interview people about the topics above.

Please take notes. The conversation and experience you have, and notes that you take, will be the material that you will use for you reflections in the passport.

Use this space and the following page to list your class’s interview questions and answers.

PEOPLE Questions:

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NATURAL ENVIORNMENT Questions:

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IDENTITY Questions:

Answers:

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The Capitol of Change Reflection Think about the lifestyle of the people who lived in the area before and after Colonial Williamsburg.

How did the capitol city fundamentally change the social and natural environment in tidewater VA? List 8 items a citizen of Williamsburg would use on a daily basis, but a Native Virginian would never use on a daily basis.

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How was the demand on natural and social resources in Colonial Williamsburg different than the demand on natural and social resources in Jamestown? • natural resources:

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Describe 2 environmental and 2 social impacts that resulted from the European lifestyle in Colonial Williamsburg?

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The 2012 Richmond Road Reflection Think about the lifestyle of the people who live in Williamsburg today. How are modern wants and needs changing/impacting the social and natural environment in tidewater VA? List 8 items a citizen of Williamsburg today would use on a daily basis, but a citizen of Colonial Williamsburg would never use on a daily basis.

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How are the demands on natural and social resources in Williamsburg today (2012) different than the demands on natural and social resources in Colonial Williamsburg (late 1700’s)? natural resources:

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Describe 2 environmental and 2 social impacts that result from the lifestyle in Williamsburg today?

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We are what we Eat Who’s Hungry?

INVESTIGATION

People often eat food that they know very little about. You are going to have a restaurant experience that is going to change all of that. Take this opportunity to investigate where your food comes from.

Please be an active participant in this unique conversation. Be curious!

1. What is the mission of this restaurant?

2. Where in the world did the food you’re eating come from (the origin)?

3. What kind of farming/processing was used to grow the food?

4. How was the food packaged?

5. On average, how many people eat there each day?

6. By what means and how far was the food transported?

7. What sort of atmosphere is this restaurant going for? How are they trying to make people feel?

8. How does the restaurant dispose of its waste? Landfill, Recycled, Compost?

9. Describe the connection the people working at the restaurant have to the food they are selling.

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Wrap-Up Reflection Think about your experience on the trip, write a 350 word (combined) or more response to these questions. yOUR ANSwER NEEDS TO BE TyPED AND STAPlED TO ThE INSIDE OF ThIS PASSPORT. Place a dot on the sustainability fractal below where you think the core value of each community fits best.

Nature & Environmentalism

Nature & Environmentalism

Nature & Environmentalism

Nature & Environmentalism

Ecology

Ecology

Ecology

Ecology

Ecology / Equity

Equity / Ecology

SUSTAINABLE

Equity Society & Socialism

Ecology / Economy

Equity / Economy

Ecology / Equity

Economy / Ecology

Equity / Ecology

Economy

Equity

Economy / Equity

Business & Capitalism

Chickahominy

Society & Socialism

Ecology / Equity

Ecology / Economy

SUSTAINABLE

Equity / Ecology

Economy / Ecology

Equity / Economy

Economy / Equity

Jamestown

Business & Capitalism

SUSTAINABLE

Equity

Economy Society & Socialism

Ecology / Economy

Equity / Economy

Ecology / Equity

Economy / Ecology

Equity / Ecology

Economy

Equity

Economy / Equity

Business & Capitalism

Society & Socialism

Ecology Ecology / Economy

SUSTAINABLE

Equity / Economy

Nature & Environmentalism

Ecology / Equity

Economy / Ecology

Equity / Ecology

Economy

Equity

Economy / Equity

Business & Capitalism

Colonial

williamsburg

williamsburg

today

Society & Socialism

Ecology / Economy

SUSTAINABLE

Economy / Ecology Economy

Equity / Economy

Economy / Equity

Business & Capitalism

Chipotle

1. you have just had a unique opportunity to explore four communities and a business (Native Virginian’s, Jamestown, Colonial williamsburg, williamsburg today and Chipotle) that share a common place, an experience that most people do not think to have. Each of these communities met their wants and needs by interacting with their place and having an impact on their environment. what lessons have you learned by comparing the values of these five communities? what do you think people today should know and understand in order to be more responsible stewards and citizens of tidewater Virginia? Explain.

2. Reflect back on the entire Immersion Trip. what did you lean about yourself? what skills do you think you will need to bring back to the Christchurch School community in order to be successful?

3. Describe the most important part of the Freshmen Immersion Trip. what made you think and grow the most?

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Personal Journal/NOTES

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Personal Journal/NOTES

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