Colonial America: The Southern Colonies Vanessa Cobb Stephanie Lofton Jessica Tillman Jessica Vincent

Essential Question Suppose your family was setting off for the new world. What would your colonial life be like? How were the colonial people like me?

Let’s Discover Colonial Life:

In the Southern Colonies The Way of Life During Colonial Times In the Southern Colonies

Table of Contents: Standards Essential Question Timeline of the Southern Colonies? Who was here? Large Landowners Farmers Artisans Women Indentured Servants Slaves Native Americans Activity Reference Page

Standards SS4H3: The student will explain the factors that shaped British Colonial America b. Describe colonial life in America as experienced by various people, including large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, indentured servants, slaves, and Native Americans. Table of Contents

Just Imagine… Imagine you were taken back in time. No more cars, no more computers, TVs, radio, or even an iPod! All you have is the wide open land! What are you going to do? How are you going to survive? How or what are you going to eat? Come along and join me on this travel back in time to see how the different economic groups made it during the early days of America! Table of Contents

Timeline of the Southern Colonies Virginia ~ 1607 Maryland ~ 1634 North Carolina ~ 1663 South Carolina ~ 1663 Georgia ~ 1732 Table of Contents Click on horse to watch video

Who Was Here? Farmers Artisans Women Slaves Indentured Servants Large Landowners Farmers Artisans Women Slaves Indentured Servants Native Americans Table of Contents

Large Landowners Owned HUGE plantations. Owners of the plantation lived in the Planters house. Their children had private teachers, and they learned to read, write, and dance. Boys were also taught classical languages, science, geography, history, and etiquette. In later years, the boys were taught how to manage the large plantation because it was handed down to them. Table of contents

Girls were usually taught by a governess Girls were usually taught by a governess. They were taught enough reading, writing, and math to run a household Girls were also taught social skills in order to attract a husband. Grew tobacco, indigo, cotton, and rice. Had many buildings and workers (slaves).

Differences In Education Boys Girls Had private teacher Had Governess Science Reading Geography Writing History Math How to run plantation Skills to find husband

Farmers Most colonist lived on small farms in the backcountry. Farmers grew much of the same things as did Landowners: wheat, barley, corn, tobacco, rice, and indigo. Did not live near schools or towns.. Farmers children learned to read and write ONLY if their parents were able to teach them. Table of Contents

Literacy in the Southern Colonies

Artisans Carpenters Wheelwrights Blacksmiths Shoemakers Tailors Table of Contents

Women Women’s full time job was homemaking. cook meals make clothing doctor their family Cleaning making household goods to use and sell taking care of their animals maintaining a fire Higher Level Math.pptx Table of Contents To find out about one of the recipes from colonial time, click on the underlined site.

Indentured Servants This is a person who would sign a contract with a wealthy landowner. They would agree to work for this person typically 3 – 7 years in exchange for their transportation to the colonies, food, clothing, and a place to live. Once their contract was up, they were free to leave the plantation, but often times they would stay, and continue to work for the Planter. Table of Contents

Slaves Most lived in Southern Colonies. Were treated as property, not people. Worked on Plantations. They formed close communities among themselves. Table of Contents

NATIVE AMERICANS In this area there were the Creek and Cherokee Indians. The Cherokee called Georgia "the Enchanted Land." Indians taught colonist how to grow crops on the land. Taught how to survive. Table of Contents

Activity Each student will be given a piece of a quilt. On one side of the quilt, the student will design how the quilt should look as a representation of their life if they were from one of the following groups: a farmer, large landowner, artisans, indentured servant, slave, Native American, or a woman living during the colonial times. On the back side of the quilt, students will write in narrative form about a person from the group he chose to illustrate. The student will write the reasons he would have wanted to be in that particular economic group. Students will compare/contrast their person with a group they would not have wanted to be a part of. Table of Contents

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Task & Roles Ahoy, matey! We’re going on a Vocabulary Voyage! We’re seeking hidden treasures in our text… just like the colonists found treasures in uncharted territories, we’re looking for words unknown! As a group, read your passage of the text and locate and creatively define unfamiliar or interesting words. It’s time to test your sea legs! Click on each icon below to discover your role in the treasure hunt.

Table of Contents 1634 1607 1663 1732 What do you need to know? Southern Crops Exploring Area Time to Think Design Your Own Fields 1634 1607 1663 1732

The Southern Colonies’ Main Crops Virginia & Maryland Tobacco Georgia Cotton Carolinas Sugar Cane South Carolina Indigo

The Southern Colonies’ Main Crops Indigo Tobacco The Southern Colonies’ Main Crops Cotton Sugar Cane

IMAGINE If we had a time travel machine and could bring Nathan Smith to 2009, what do you think Nathan would have questions about? What would you want to learn from him?

Colonial schools were small and had only one room Colonial schools were small and had only one room. There was a schoolmaster who taught everyone. Boys went to school longer than girls. Nice handwriting was considered more important than spelling. If you did not behave in colonial school, you were severely punished. Colonial school was very hard!

What we learned in my school. At school we are taught to read, write, and do some arithmetic, which is like math. We need to learn this because then we can read the bible, write letters to people and keep track of our amount of money.  Our town is considered lucky to have a schoolhouse because most towns don’t have one. If we didn’t have a school our parents would teach us some things.  Then we would probably have the same job that our father has when we grow up. Here’s what I used to write with. This is my quill pen. Remember, nice handwriting was important! Ps. We had to be at school by 7A.M. We also had school Mon-Saturday! This is my hornbook. Hornbooks are wooden paddles that have the lower case and upper case alphabet, and a scripture on it. Then the hornbook is covered with a thin covering of horn from a ram.

In addition to school, we have other responsibilities. The girls help around the house, and the boys learn a trade or find a job. I just got my first job. Click the Post Office below to find out what job I got and how you can help me solve my problem!

Here’s a map of the Southern colonies: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. This map shows the different resources that each colony has. As you can see, my colony’s emphasis is Indigo, pigs, and rice. Do you remember what state I’m from? See if you can guess based on the resources I’ve told you we have. When the Colonies were established. 1634 1607 1663 1663 1732 Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Tobacco Indigo Pigs Corn Naval Stores Rice

Southern colonies’ resources Pigs Rice Indigo Tobacco Corn Naval Stores

This is a picture of my little sisters playing with their toys I know what you’re thinking: did the colonial children work and study all the time? NO! Here are some things that we do: Foot races Shooting contests Corn husking contests Quilting bees Horse races Puppet shows Kite making         This is a picture of my little sisters playing with their toys Children also have toys made for them. They have miniature soldiers and cannons. They have store bought marbles, and musical instruments.

This will show you how I spend an average day This will show you how I spend an average day. According to this chart, how do I spend most of my time?