Describing the social history of colonial America

1. Describing the social history of colonial America Warm up: if your family decided to move to a foreign country, what three things would you want to know about daily life there?

2. Activity • You are an 18-century English journalist who has spent a year living in and learning about Colonial America. • You are writing a journal to Englishmen that don’t know about America informing them of the land and the culture. • Choose 10 of the following areas to write about. Your report needs to be descriptive and creative. This is a project so visuals, typing, time, & care are needed. • Due Date: January 12, 2009

3. Slices of Colonial Life • Native Americans Teaching and Helping Colonists • Native Americans and Colonists in Conflict Over the Land • Enslaved People and Their Treatment • Quilting Bees • Life on the Small Farm • Colonial Trade

4. Slices of Colonial Life • Leisure • Communities • Class Differences • Courtship and Gender Relationships • Marriage • Religious Rituals

5. Slices of Colonial Life • Importance of the Church • Food • Literacy and Education • Families • Life on the Frontier • Death and Funerals