1. Let’s Discover Colonial Life:

2. 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.
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3. 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!
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4. READING NBI
Go to colonies assignment in MYON and read the book: What if You Lived in Colonial America?

5. What was Colonial life like?
What did the colonists bring with them?
Click here to find out
What was the difference between the Puritans, Pilgrims, and Quakers?
What did the colonists eat?

6. What was Colonial life like?
What did they wear? Play the “Dress the colonists game” at

7. Who Was Here? Farmers Artisans Women Slaves Indentured Servants
Large Landowners
Farmers
Artisans
Women
Slaves
Indentured Servants
Native Americans
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8. Large Landowners Large Land Owners: pgs.212-213 SS Book
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.

9. 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.
They grew tobacco, indigo, cotton, and rice.
They had many buildings and workers (slaves).

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

11. Farmers Click on the links to learn more:
Most colonists lived on small farms in the backcountry.
Farmers grew much of the same things as did Landowners: whe
Oat, 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.
Click on the links to learn more:
Farmers: pgs in SS book
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12. Literacy in the Southern Colonies

13. Artisans Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Blacksmiths Shoemakers, Tailors
pgs 186, 198 SS book
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14. 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
Women: pgs 167, 177, 197, 213 in SS Book
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15. 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.
Indentured Servant: pgs. 132, 212 in SS Book
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16. Slaves Most lived in Southern Colonies.
Were treated as property, not people.
Worked on Plantations.
They formed close communities among themselves.
Slaves: (New England: p. 176) South- pgs in SS book
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17. 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.
Conflicts pgs. 167, 169, 190, 202, 204
In SS book
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18. Activity
You will be given a piece of a quilt. On one side of the quilt, design how the quilt should look as a representation of your life if you 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.
You will write in narrative form about a person from the group you made your quilt on. You will write “a day in the life of” narrative story from the point of view of the colonist.
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19. EXTENSIONS
Compare and contrast your group with another group. Create a Venn diagram for the two groups using evidence from your research.
Analyze: Which colonial group of people had the most difficult life? Which had the easiest? Which group would you have wanted to be in? Explain your answers with supporting details and evidence from your research.