1. Integrated Literacy Assignment
Alyssa Ballard

2. GLCE
5- U2.3.2 Describe the daily life of people living in the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies.

3. Music

4. Books
This book is a higher level reading book. Could be used for large group reading.
Fun book for students, focusing on hardships of the times in an interesting way.

5. Activity Book

6. Teacher Text
Teachers version of a textbook for a chapter on the middle colonies. Contains vocab, study questions, and conversation topics.

7. Poetry

8. Websites
Kid friendly website. Students could do their own research. Discusses farming, religion, food, and education.
Kid friendly website full of facts separated by New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

9. Lesson Plan
– “What was the role of children on an 18th-century Virginia farm?”

10. Video (Mr. Striplin)
New England: Southern:

11. Online Game
Read and watch videos about the lives 8 colonists.
Then read a diary entry and try to pick what colonist wrote it.

12. Map

13. Graphs

14. Magazine
Kid friendly, simple explanations of colonial American life. Includes daily work, life as a colonial kid, and food of the times.

15. References
18th Century Music. Retrieved from:
Colonial Life Lesson Plan. Retrieved from:
American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Retrieved from:
Life in Colonial America Best Children's Books. Retrieved from:
Mr. Nussbaum Learning and Fun. Retrieved from:
Dr. Gayle Olson-Raymer (2014) The Colonists - What They Created. Retrieved from:
Colonial America. Retrieved from:
Social Studies for Kids. Retrieved from:
The 13 Colonies. Retrieved from:
Mr. Striplin. The Southern Colonies. From:
(2004) Colonial House.
Breadbasket Colonies. Retrieved from: