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Visiting Colonial America

Introduction

Twenty-first century technology has finally reached the seventh grade classroom! Why read about Colonial America in a textbook when you can go there yourself and learn about it in person? Time Travel, Inc. has now made visiting Colonial America a reality.

We here at Time Travel, Inc., however, need your help. In order to keep the course of history intact, all visitors to the past are required to assume the role of a character from the time period they are visiting. In addition, visitors must have specific knowledge of the role they are playing so they do not draw attention to themselves and thus change the course of history.

Your assignment is to create a brochure of one of the roles that visitors could play in Colonial America. Excellent work will be rewarded handsomely.

Task

You will create a brochure on the role that you choose from Colonial America. In your brochure, you must include the following:

A picture of what this person would look like
Information about the clothing this person would wear
Information about the social activities of this person (religion, what they do for fun, etc.)
Information about what they do on a typical day
Information about who this person might interact with on an average day
What country this person originally came from

Process

You will select a character from the following list:

A wealthy Southern plantation owner or his wife
A Pennsylvania Quaker
An African slave
A New England Puritan or Pilgrim
An indentured servant

Once you have completed your research, you will create a brochure. Your brochure may be done by hand or on a computer. It may be folded like a traditional brochure, or it may be done on one piece of flat paper. If you are interested in creating a different format, please see Mr. Anthes for approval. As long as you include all of the information required, you are free to present it any way you like in the brochure. Be creative!

Resources

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG - 18TH CENTURY CLOTHING -[ Descriptions of clothing worn during the colonial period including photos and drawings]

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG - MEET THE PEOPLE -[ Information about African Americans, children, families of different economic levels, and individuals]

COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG - COLONIAL LIFE - [Information about a variety of aspects of everyday life]

WHAT DID THE COLONISTS EAT? [Some foods eaten by Colonists]

COLONIAL EDUCATION [Schooling and Education in Colonial America]

COLONIAL LIFE WEBSITES [Collection of sites complied by Travilah ES in Montgomery county, MD]

PLIMOTH PLANTATION [Daily life in 1627 in the village of "New Plymouth"]

http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/african/aaintro.cfmColonial slave life.

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/Af_Amer/aalife.cfm Colonial slave life.

http://www.benjaminschool.com/lower/hagy1/slave_life.htmMore on colonial slave life.

http://www.pbs.org/williamsburg/kin/life.html Still more on colonial slave life.

http://www.rjdmuseum.org/Quakerism.htmlQuaker life.

http://www.usahistory.info/colonies/Pennsylvania.html More on Quakers.

http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/pahist/quaker.asp?secid=31 Pennsylvania information.

http://caxton.stockton.edu/AWM/stories/storyReader$18Daily life in colonial Pennsylvania.

http://www.libertyhaven.com/politicsandcurrentevents/educationhomeschoolingorchildren/colonialamerica.shtml

Quaker kids.

http://members.tripod.com/fervis/Puritan religion.

http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvsageh/Hist121/Part1/NewEngland.htmPuritan life.

http://members.fortunecity.com/cadieuxx/puritan.htmlPuritan clothing.

http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/colonial.html Images of colonial life, including Puritans.

http://noahwebsterhouse.org/games.htmlColonial games and toys.

http://www.geocities.com/nai_cilh/servitude.htmlIndentured servants in colonial America.

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/socialstudies/projects/jvc/unit/econ/servantlife_bkgd.html

Indentured servants in colonial America.

http://abqgen.swnet.com/article1.htmIndentured servants in colonial America

http://www.nps.gov/hamp/lancaster1.htm More indentured servants information.

http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester1/100700/100700daphbacon.htmlMore on the life of indentured servants (including an image).

http://www.history.org/History/teaching/Dayseries/webactivities/freedom/freedom.htmInteractive information on slave and plantation owner’s lives.

Evaluation

This brochure is worth a total of 40 points. Please see the rubric for detailed requirements.

	8	6	4	2	0
Included Content	All required content elements are included.	Most required content elements are included.	Some required content elements are included.	Few required content elements are included.	No required content is included.
Quality of Information	All included information is factual and is from the colonial era.	Most included information is factual and is from the colonial era.	Some included information is factual and is from the colonial era.	Little included information is factual and is from the colonial era.	No included information is factual or from the colonial era.
Appearance	Brochure is attractive to the eye. It looks professionally done. Graphics and fonts are well exceedingly well done and are easy to read.	Brochure is mostly attractive to the eye. It almost looks professionally done. Graphics and fonts are well done and easy to read.	Brochure is somewhat attractive to the eye. It does not look professionally done. Graphics and fonts are fairly well done and mostly easy to read.	Brochure is minimally attractive to the eye. It looks hurriedly put together. Graphics and fonts are barely acceptable and somewhat difficult to read.	Brochure looks extremely poor. Clearly little time or effort was put into its completion. Graphics and fonts are hurriedly done and quite difficult to read.
Spelling and Grammar	Spelling and grammar are nearly perfect.	Spelling and grammar have several errors.	Spelling and grammar have many errors.	Spelling and grammar have an inordinate number of errors.	Almost no time or effort was put into checking spelling and grammar.
Originality	Ideas and design are unique and original.	Ideas and design are well done and somewhat original.	Ideas and design are good, but not original.	Ideas and design show little thought or originality.	Ideas and design are taken directly from another source or are very poor.

Conclusion

We at Time Travel, Inc. greatly appreciate your help. We will review your submission and contact you if it is chosen for wide scale use. As you are now knowledgeable about life in Colonial America, we hope that you will consider being one of the first to travel to the past and experience it first hand.

This web quest borrowed material from that of teacher Michael Warner. Thank you!

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