Goals:  Students will use skills aquired during computer lab to do internet research on the Mayflower.

        Objective:  Students will have a better understanding about how the early settlers arrived in this land and life aboard the Mayflower.

Lesson 4:  Map Reading and Identifying the 13 Colonies

           Goals:  Students will be able to identify the original 13 colonies and use a map to locate them as they were and as they are today.

           Procedures:
               1.   Internet access may be used as student research about what the 13 colonies where and where they are located.
               2.   Students will use maps in the classroom and in the books to learn how to locate the colonies.

          Assessment:
                 Teacher observation and students abiblity to identify and locate a colony on the map.

Lesson 5:  Literacy Centers:

        Goals:  Students will use the information they have learned in previous lessons to complete the activities within the literacy centers.

        Materials:
        Books on the Pilgrims, the Mayflower and, Colonial Life
        Student journals
        Paper
        Drawing tools, crayons, makers, pencils
        Snacks for book review area (optional)

        Procedures:
            1.  Have material for each center assembled prior to class.
            2   Create 4 literacy center areas to include and art area, a book review area( a comfortable place in a corner of the room), a theater center and, a writing
                 center.
            3.  Students will rotate in equally divided groups to each center and perform the activity assigned to each area.
            4.  Activities will include:  at the art center; students will create a vehickle in which they will take a life adventure in similar to the Pilgrims and share them with
                 the class; at the book review center, students will discuss the different books we have read in class and compare the information to themselves and how
                different life is today; at the theater center students will choose a life adventure as a group and act out the etails of their journey and finally the writing
                center will be an assignment for the students to write about A Day in the Life of a Colonial person either on their voyage or when they arrived, what was
                their life like? They can be as creative as they want or factual.
        Assessment:  Teacher observation as students progress through each center and a discussion after the literacy center actiities are completed to review what
                             they had learned.

Lesson 6 and 7:

          Students will have time to work in the computer lab or library to gather more information on their trade or job they will be presenting. Another link to use,

Lesson 8:  The Colonial Children and Families

         Goals:  Students will have an understanding of the differences and similarities between the children of today and the children of Colonial times.ColonialKids
                     They will also begin to understand time and how to be more descriptive when writing in  their journals using time frames.ColonialGames and Toys

     Begin the lesson with:   Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of A Pilgrim Girl byKate Waters. Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy

These books describe the life of children in the early colonial years.   The colonial setting provides a clear visual image of colonial life for the children.

Procedures:
             1.  Ask the children to recall the various activities they did on the previous school day. Mark on paper or the chalkboard a long bar with a sunrise, high
                  noon, and sunset and try to list the activities in their approximate time frame.
             2.  Students may write a journal of their day as if they were a Pilgrim child. Some may wish to do this for several days but others will find it
                  easier to keep a journal of actual present-day events. Ask students to make specific references to time as much as possible, i.e. "early in the morning"
                  or "just after dinner" .
             3.  Look at the riddles Sarah knew. Children will enjoy making and sharing new riddles with their friends.
                  Write them down and illustrate the answer on the back of the page. Collect the pages in a book.

Assessment:
    Teacher will assess the studetnts understanding of the topic through discussion questions.

1. What was the first thing that Sarah or Samuel did in the morning? How is this the same or different from what you do in the morning?

2. Compare yourself to Sarah or Samuel. How are you like them or different?

3. Would you like to do the chores and other activities the Pilgrim children did? Why or why not?
 

4. Tell some ways that the clothing was different. Could you wear clothing like that today with the activities you do?

Lesson 9:   Students Creating  Colonial Characters to Portray

           Goals:   Students will use the information they have gathered to create a simple demonstration of their trade

                        This lesson plan will extend over several days as students create and write about their topics.

           Procedures:

             1.   Students will continue writing about their characters and learning about heir jobs.

             2.   Students will decide what they would like to share with their audience about their character.

             3.   Students will finalize their two to three lines of information they will share.

             4.   During the final project students will  have an understanding of their characters they are portraying they will use this time to rehearse what they have

                   learned and prepare to have their Colonial Day Exhibit.

Lesson 10:  Culminating Activity

          Goals:  Students will perform in a Colonial exhibit that they have recreated in their own classroom.

          Preparation:

           1.  Students will dress in colonial attire ( with clothing from home )

           2.  Props and items necessary for each station will be povided by the teacher or would have been created by the students during thier research on their trade.

           3.  Invitations would be sent to parents and other classes to attend their colonial exhibit.

         Procedures:

           1.  Students will set up their area for the exhibit.

           2.  During the exhibit all students will stay at their area and introduce themselves to people as they approach using thier colonial names.  They will then

                explain their trade to the people ( the 2 to 3 lines they have rehearsed).

           3.  Parents and other classes will move about the classroom and explore what it was like to live during the Colonial Times.

           4.  Students will get to enjoy all their hard work as they present their information in a fun and interseting manner.

    Assessment:   Sudents ability to now their information and portray their characters in a way similar to what they have learned.

Resource Links:

PlimothPlantation

EarlyAmerica Index

ColonialWilliamsburg Foundation

TheEarly Settlers…

Connecticut…

AColonial Family and Community

Educationin Colonial America

COLONIALERA PHOTOS ... Glimpses Into The Life & Times

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Anglo-Saxonand Viking Crafts - Leatherwork

Fremlin'sForgery & Knife Works....The Art of Blacksmithing, Metal Art, Horseshoeingand knife sharpeners, Speedy Sharps

ColonialDays Web Adventure - K12 - TeacherVision.com

ColonialAmerica, 1776

Puzzle--ThirteenColonies

ColonialAmerica and Children's Literature

OLDSTURBRIDGE VILLAGE

ColonialAmerica

Schooling,Education, and Literacy in Colonial America

ColonialAmerica Scavenger Hunt

ColonialAmerican Gazette

ColonialKids

ColonialAmerican Time-Line

Colonial American History Social Studies Resources

AMERICA'S HOMEPAGE!! PLYMOUTH, MASS

Theme: Freedom, Seeking a Better Life in a New Home

Historic Mile

Trades

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Teacher Resources:

ColonialAmerica Thematic Unit. Grades 4 & 5

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                                                         Books set in the Colonial Period List compiled from this site:
                                                          http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/ushistory/colonial.html
 

                                                                   Picture Books:

                       *Costabel, Eva Deutsch. The Jews of New Amsterdam. (Atheneum, 1988. ISBN 0-689-31351-9.
                       Order Online) Grades 2+.
                       New York, 1650's.
                       This simplified text gives an overview of the Jews' effect on the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.

                       *Forest, Heather. The Baker's Dozen. Illustrated by Susan Graber . (Harcourt, 1992 ISBN 0 15
                       200412 2. Paperback.) Grades 1+.
                       The custom of the baker's dozen is shown here to have started in a town in colonial America.

                       *Lobel, Arnold. On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town. (Harper, 1971. ISBN 0-06-443144-4.) Grades 1+.
                       New York, 1647.
                       This text follows the development of New Amsterdam during Stuyvesant's efforts to organize the town.

                       *Locker, Thomas. The Land of Gray Wolf. (Dial, 1990. ISBN 0-8037-0936-6. Order Online) Grades 2+.
                       The destruction of the wilderness viewed through the eyes of a Native American child.

                       *McGovern, Ann. If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Illustrated by Anna DiVito. (Scholastic,
                       1991. ISBN 0-590-45161-8 Order Online). Grades 2+.
                       Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620.
                       A question and answer format book about life during the Mayflower voyage.

                       ***Sewell, Marcia. Pilgrims of Plimouth. (Macmillan, 1986. ISBN 0-689-31250-4. Order Online)
                       Nonfiction. Grades 2+.
                       Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620's.
                       With more historical accuracy than many picture books, Sewell tells of the daily life of the people
                       commonly referred to as Pilgrims.

                       ***Sewall, Marcia. People of the Breaking Day. (Atheneum, 1990. ISBN 0-689-31407-8 Order Online). Nonfiction. Grades
                       2+.
                       Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1620's.
                       This is daily life from the point of view of the Native Americans living in the area where the Pilgrims settled.

                       ***Sewall, Marcia. Thunder From the Clear Sky. (Atheneum, 1995. ISBN 0-689-31775-1 Order Online). Nonfiction. Grades
                       2+.
                       Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1620's.
                       With alternating viewpoints of the Wampanoag and Pilgrims this book tells the story of their interactions.
 
 

                                                                      Novels

                       **Avi. Night Journeys. (Morrow, 1979 ISBN 0-688-05298-3. Paperback.) 160 pages. Grades 4+.
                       Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1768.
                       Peter York's guardian, Everett, is a devout Quaker and, in 1768, his care of Peter seems unbending and unfair. He joins a hunt for
                       some runaway indentured servants on the Pennsylvania - New Jersey border, only to find that they have been truly mistreated. Now
                       he must seek help from Everett to help the children.

                       *Bulla, Clyde Robert. Charlie's House. (Knopf, 1993 ISBN 0-679-83841-4.) 96 pages. Gr. 3+.
                       An indentured servant, Charlie Brig comes to America seeking a prosperous life and finds instead that he is indentured to an
                       impossibly cruel man, the only escape from whom is to cast his lot with the runaway slaves.

                       *Bulla, Clyde Robert. A Lion to Guard Us. (HarperCollins, 1981 ISBN 0-690-04097-0. Order Online.) 117 pages. Gr. 3+.
                       Virginia.
                       In this accessible, brief novel, we have the story of three children who, after their mother dies, make their way to Virginia Colony in
                       search of their father.

                       **Clapp, Patricia. Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth. (Morrow, 1968 ISBN 0-688-10976-4. Order Online.) 256 pages.
                       Grades 6+.
                       Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1620's.
                       This novel gives us an imaginary journal kept by Constance Hopkins from the time she sails on the Mayflower until her wedding five
                       years later. Although a work of fiction, the book sticks quite closely to the facts and gives us a personal look at the day to day life in
                       Plymouth.

                       *Clapp, Patricia. Witches' Children: A Story of Salem. (Puffin, 1987. ISBN 084466572X. Order Online.)
                       Grades 4+.
                       Salem, Massachusetts. Late 1600's.
                       The first person narrative of a girl swept up in the witch hunt hysteria.

                       **Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble. (Aladdin, 1954. ISBN 0684188309. Order Online.)
                       Grades 2+.
                       Massachusetts and Connecticut, 1707.
                       Short and accessible, this fact based novel shows us a white family of settlers and their friendship with local
                       Indians through the eyes of the eight year old daughter.

                       *Dillon, Eilis. The Seekers. (Charles Scribner's, 1986. 0-684-18595-4. Order Online.) 136pg. Grade 5+.
                       Yorkshire, England and Plymouth Colony, 1632.
                       A teenager travels with the family of his fiancee to Plymouth. The Saints (the Pilgrims who were in Plymouth for religious reasons) are
                       shown as hardworking, generous and intolerant. After learning and experiencing much the young couple returns to England.

                       **Field, Rachel. Calico Bush. (Dell, 1931. ISBN 0-440-40368-5. Order Online.) Grades 5+.
                       Massachusetts and Maine, 1743.
                       This 1931 Newbery Award winner stands the test of time. The story of a French orphan indentured to an English family, this book
                       gives us an intimate portrait of the interactions and prejudices between the two groups of settlers and the English family's conflict with
                       local Native Americans.

                       *Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia. (HarperCollins, 1990 ISBN 0060219130. Order Online.) 128 pages. Gr. 5+.
                       Boston, 1681.
                       William's Narragansett village has been attacked and he seems to be its sole survivor. Apprenticed to a printer in
                       Boston in 1681, he walks the night streets hoping to find some trace of his family.

                       *Fritz, Jean. The Cabin Faced West. (Putnam, 1958. ISBN 0399232230. Order Online.). Grades 3+.
                       Pennsylvania, early 1700's.
                       The experiences of a ten year old girl adjusting to life in the woods without other children to play with. Based on the
                       Jean Fritz's grandmother's experiences.

                       **Fritz, Jean. Early Thunder. (Putnam, 1967. ISBN 0140322590. Order Online.) Grades 5+.
                       Massachusetts, 1770's.
                       This novel offers a more balanced view than most of the period immediately preceding the Revolutionary War.

                       **Keehn, Sally M. I Am Regina. (Philomel, 1990. ISBN 0-399-21797-5. Order Online.) Grade 6+.
                       Pennsylvania, mid 1700's.
                       The story of a white girl captured by Native Americans at the age of 10 and then returned at the age of 18 and her
                       adjustments to the two cultures.

                       *Koller, Jackie French. The Primrose Way. (Harcourt. 1992 ISBN 0-15-256745-3. Order Online.) 275 pages.
                       Gr. 5+.
                       Agawam, Massachusetts, 1633.
                       The clash of cultures between the Pawtucket Indians and the new settlers is the focus for this novel. Rebekah, the
                       daughter of a missionary, befriends a young Native American girl and is accused of siding against her own family.

                       **Monjo, F. N. The House on Stink Alley. (Dell, 1977. ISBN 0-440-43376-2. Order Online.). Grade 2+.
                       Holland, early 1600's.
                       Based on primary sources this book tells of the Pilgrims' years in Holland prior to their sailing to the New World.

                       ***Petry, Ann. Tituba of Salem Village. (Harper Trophy. 1991 ISBN 0-064-40403-X. Order Online.) 254 pages. Grades 5+.
                       Salem, Massachusetts. 1600's.
                       This slightly fictionalized account of the Salem witchcraft trials shows how suspicion is cast on Tituba, not only because she can tell
                       fortunes, but because she is black and friendless. The girls who accuse her and others are portrayed variously as foolish, misguided,
                       and self-centered.

                       *Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity. (Harcourt Brace, 1992. ISBN 0-15-200353-3. Order Online.) Grade 6+.
                       Salem, Massachusetts. 1600's.
                       The book deals with the witchcraft trials through Susanna English who knew from the beginning that the young women who "cried out"
                       against witches were coldly aware of what they were doing. Unable to reveal the secret because of the very real fear that they might
                       cry out against her or her family Susanna struggles with overwhelming guilt as one by one the nonconformists in that Puritan community
                       were led to the gallows.

                       *Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March. (Harcourt, 1993 ISBN 0 15 200343 6. Order Online.) Grades 5+.
                       Boston, Massachusetts, 1768.
                       Rachel Marsh is the indentured servant for John and Abigail Adams. The skirmishes with the British soldiers have started but Rachel
                       falls in love with a British soldier brought to trial after the Boston Massacre.

                       ***Speare, Elizabeth George. Witch of Blackbird Pond. (Dell, 1978. ISBN 0 440 99577 9. Order Online.) 256pg. 6+.
                       Connecticut, 1688.
                       Kit Tyler spent the first sixteen years of her life in the Barbados where rules were less restrictive. At Blackbird Pond, the only place
                       where Kit feels free, she meets and befriends Hannah, a Quaker whom villagers suspect of witchcraft.