COLONIAL AMERICAN LIFE - Reading Passages & Comprehension Questions BUNDLE

102 reading passages cover Roanoke; Jamestown; the Mayflower; Plymouth Pilgrims; Salem Witch Trials; Colonial Merchants and Shopkeepers; Pirates, Privateers and the Golden Age of Piracy; Colonial Tradesmen and Craftsmen; Apprenticeships; Printers; Colonial Farmers and much more! Includes one reading comprehension worksheet for each reading passage. Comprehension questions are true or false; multiple choice and open ended, and include both literal and inferential questions. Use for Social Studies (History) and Language Arts (Reading Comprehension).

INCLUDES:

• 102 One- and Two-Page Reading Passages
• 102 Reading Comprehension Worksheets
• 102 Teacher's Keys
• Graphic Organizers

PASSAGE TITLES THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE:

• Arriving at Roanoke
• Roanoke – The Lost Colony
• Jamestown Settlement
• James Towne – In Honor of the King
• Life in Jamestown; Life as a Settler
• First and Second Supplies
• Third Supply; The Starving Time
• Patience and Deliverance
• John Rolfe: Tobacco and Pocahontas
• Tobacco – Labor Needs
• Servitude and Slavery
• The Powhatan Indians: Tension Builds – The Powhatan Attacks of 1622
• Anglicans and Separatists
• The Separatists Separate
• The Mayflower Voyage
• The Mayflower Sets Sail
• The Mayflower Compact
• Well Known Pilgrims
• William Bradford – Arriving in the New World; Leader and Author
• The First Winter
• Moving to the Settlement
• The Pilgrims Meet the Native Americans
• Squanto and the Pilgrims
• The First Thanksgiving – A Recorded Event
• Puritans in England and America
• Laws of the Puritans
• The Salem Witch Trials – How it Began
• Arrests and Examinations
• The Court, Judges, and Associate Magistrates
• Cotton Mather
• People Who Influenced the Trials – The Accusers
• Well-Known Accused and Their Sad Stories
• Nurse Goody, George Burroughs and Elizabeth Proctor
• The End of the Salem Witch Trials
• The Aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials
• Early Colonists - Acquiring Goods
• The Navigation Acts
• Trading and Bartering
• Colonists’ Attempts at Money
• Commodity Money
• Wampum
• Coins in the Colonies: English Coins, Foreign Coins, Colonial Coins
• Merchants vs. Shopkeepers vs. Peddlers
• Colonial Peddlers
• The Peddler’s Reputation
• The First General Stores
• Well-Known Colonial Merchants: Mary Alexander and Peter Faneuil
• Examples of Colonial Shopkeepers
• Pirates and Privateers
• The Seas, the Slaves and The Triangular Trade Route
• The Golden Age of Piracy
• Life of a Pirate: The Pirate Articles
• Life On the Ship
• Pirate Ships
• Pirate Colors and Capturing Ships
• Pirates: Myth vs. Reality
• William Kidd – Pirate Hunter and Privateer
• Blackbeard – Pirate
• Stede Bonnet - Pirate
• Black Bart - Pirate
• Charles Vane and Calico Jack - Pirates
• Female Pirates
• Pirate Havens
• The End of the Golden Age of Piracy
• 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
• Tradesmen, Craftsmen and Guilds in Colonial America
• Apprenticeships
• Pauper Apprentices; Female Apprentices
• Colonial Gunsmiths
• Colonial Wigmakers
• Colonial Apothecaries and Midwives
• Colonial Printers
• Colonial Tailors
• Colonial Tanners
• Colonial Blacksmiths
• Colonial Coopers
• Colonial Basket Weavers
• Colonial Carpenters
• Colonial Chandlers
• Colonial Wheelwrights
• 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

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