COLONIAL AMERICAN LIFE, BUNDLE #2 - Reading Passages and Enrichment Activities

51 Reading Passages cover Colonial American Farmers; Pirates, Privateers, and the Golden Age of Piracy; Gunsmiths, Apothecaries and Midwives, Printers and Publishers, Tanners, Blacksmiths, Coopers, Wheelwrights, Apprentices, and much more! Classroom and enrichment activities keep students engaged as they learn. Great for use by substitute teachers, or for homeschooling or co-ops!

EACH PRODUCT IN THIS BUNDLE INCLUDES:

• Reading Passages
• Classroom and Enrichment Activities
• Review Worksheet
• Teacher's Key
• Graphic Organizers

COLONIAL AMERICAN FARMERS

Historians believe that ninety percent of American settlers earned their livelihood by farming. Farmers changed the landscape of America and contributed to the colonists’ survival and success.

READING PASSAGES:

13 one-page reading passages covering the following topics:

• Food and the First Colonists
• Indentured Servants: Immigrants and Convicts
• The Acre and the Job of the Surveyor
• Colonial Farmer’s Work: Clearing the Land
• Colonial Farmer’s Work: Cultivating and Sowing
• Maize and The Three Sisters
• Crops in the Colonies
• A Day in the Life of a Colonial Farmer
• The Farmer’s Wife
• The Colonial Farmers Children
• Animals on the Colonial Farm
• Pests and Pesticides – Crops and Gardens
• The Negative Impact of Colonial Farmers

CLASSROOM AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:

This product includes the following classroom activities:

• Colonial Farmer Job Application
• Colonial Farmer Worksheet (Includes Teacher’s Key)
• Review Game: Bingo Words and Clues
• Examine and Create an Indenture Contract
• Colonial American Livestock Math Activities (Includes Teacher’s Keys)
• Respond to a Writing Prompt
• Play Colonial Farmers Memory Game - Vocabulary Review
• Read a Native American Tale: The Three Sisters Myth
• Plan a Colonial Farm
• Map Colonial America – The Three Regions (Includes Teacher’s Key)
• Illustrate a Comic Strip: The Life of a Colonial Farmer’s Children
• Instructions for Churning Butter
• Coloring Pages
• Graphic Organizers

PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY

1650 to 1730 is known as the Golden Age of Piracy, a time when pirates ruled the seas. Most of the well-known pirates in history came from this period of time. In the early days of pirate activity, port cities in Colonial America actually welcomed pirates! Pirates came ashore and spent their money on goods and services provided by the colonists which greatly helped the struggling colonial economy. This lesson focuses on sea robbers when the colonies were young.

READING PASSAGES:

16 one-page reading passages covering the following topics:

• The Seas, The Ships, The Slave Trade
• The Golden Age of Piracy
• Pirates, Privateers, Buccaneers and Pirate Hunters
• Life of a Pirate: The Pirate Articles
• Life on the Ship
• Pirate Ships
• Pirate Colors
• Myth vs. Reality
• William Kidd – Privateer and Pirate Hunter
• Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Black Bart, Charles Vane, Calico Jack – Pirates
• Mary Read and Anne Bonny- Female Pirate
• Pirate Havens
• The End of the Golden Age of Piracy

CLASSROOM AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:

• Job Application
• Pirate and Privateer Review Worksheet
• Pirate Food
• Pirate Code
• Charting Activity: The Death of a Pirate
• Pirate Speak – Create a Cartoon
• Design Your Own Colors!
• Venn Diagram: Pirates and Privateers
• Analyze Stede Bonnet’s Monument
• Review Game: Bingo Words and Clues
• Triangular Trade Route Map Work
• Pirate Scavenger Hunt
• Coloring Pages
• Graphic Organizers

TRADESMEN AND CRAFTSMEN GROUP 1

Colonial Tradesmen and Craftsmen were the backbone of the American Colonies. Craftsmen were responsible for growing the colonies by building structures, making tools, crafting furniture, and creating goods and products that made everyday life possible.

READING PASSAGES

9 one-page reading passages covering the following topics:

• Colonial Tradesmen and Craftsmen**
• Apprenticeships in Colonial America **
• Other Apprentices (Paupers and Females)
• Colonial Gunsmiths
• Colonial Apothecaries and Midwives
• Colonial Wigmakers
• Colonial Printers**
• Colonial Tailors, Mantua-Makers and Milliners
• Colonial Tanners

CLASSROOM AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:

This product includes the following classroom activities:

• Job Application
• Review Worksheet
• Trading Cards (Name that Craftsman! AND Four Facts and a Lie)
• Research Other Colonial Tradesmen
• Write a Letter Home!
• Review Game: Bingo Words and Clues
• Coloring Pages
• Be an Apothecary - Interpret Colonial Cures and Treatments!
• Match Game
• Mind Your Ps and Qs
• Sew a Button!
• Be a Printer! - Create a Newspaper!
• Graphic Organizers

TRADESMEN AND CRAFTSMEN GROUP 2

Colonial Tradesmen and Craftsmen were the backbone of the American Colonies. Six more colonial craftsmen are featured in this product: Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Basket Weavers, Coopers, and Chandlers.

READING PASSAGES:

9 one-page reading passages covering the following topics:

• Colonial Tradesmen and Craftsmen**
• Apprenticeships in Colonial America **
• Other Apprentices (Paupers and Females)**
• Colonial Blacksmiths
• Colonial Carpenters and Joiners
• Colonial Wheelwrights, Cartwrights, and Wainwrights
• Colonial Basket Weavers
• Colonial Coopers
• Colonial Chandlers

CLASSROOM AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:

• Complete Job Application
• Review Worksheet
• Trading Cards - Name that Craftsman; Four Facts and a Lie
• Write a Letter Home!
• Review Game: Bingo Words and Clues
• Coloring Pages
• Surname Scavenger Hunt
• Match Game
• Be a Carpenter - Make a Door!
• Make Homemade Butter!
• Graphic Organizers

COLONIAL PRINTERS and PUBLISHERS

What type of documents did Colonial Printers produce? How did one become a printer? Who were some of the well-known Colonial Printers? This lesson plan covers the careers of printers and publishers and examines the importance of the printed word in Colonial America.

READING PASSAGES:

12 one- and two-page reading passages covering the following topics:

• History of Printing in Colonial America
• What Was Being Printed?
• The First Newspapers
• Freedom of the Press
• Colonial Printer’s Supplies and Equipment
• The Jobs of Printers and Publishers
• Apprenticeships in Colonial America
• Female Apprentices and Pauper Apprentices
• The Apprenticeship Contracts
• Benjamin Franklin – An Apprentice in Boston
• Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher
• Well-Known Female Printers and Publishers
• Other Well-Known Printers and Publishers

CLASSROOM AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES:

This product includes the following classroom activities:

• Complete Job Application
• Be a Colonial Compositor!
• Review Worksheet and Teacher’s Key
• Make a Potato Print Instructions
• Make Your Own Ink Recipes
• Analyze the First Amendment!
• Coloring Pages
• Create Cartoons From Poor Richards’ Almanac!
• Review Game: Bingo Words and Clues
• Translate Silence Dogood’s Letter to the Editor
• Create a Newspaper!
• Fact or Opinion?
• 2 Graphic Organizers

PLEASE NOTE: Some reading passages and portions of reading passages concerning Printers and Apprentices are repeated between lessons. I have adjusted the page count to account for this.

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