chapter 6 lesson 1. most people during the colonial times did not go to college or high school. ...
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Most people during the colonial times did not go to college or high school.
Girls were taught how to keep a home and tend to children by helping with their own families and homes
Boys worked on the family farm or were apprenticed to artisans.
I’m my master’s ap-pren-ticeI -am learn-ing his tradeI do the jobs he won’t want to doI’ll fetch the water and build the fire too
He teach-es me how to black-smithSo I can be one –you’ll seeI will work, learn, and study all day‘Cause I’m learn-ing my trade…
An artisan is a skilled work-erHe has a job that people needWork artisan – work -Artisan do your job for meAn artisan is a rope mak-er, blacksmith, or a car-pen-terWork artisan – work -Artisan do your job for me
Open your textbook to pages 202-203 As you read, contrast the life of a
colonial boy or girl compared to your life.
Make a T-Chart to show the differencesMy Life Colonial Times
List some of the common jobs for people in America in the year 2010.
Look at the jobs listed on page 204. Are any jobs similar? Which job would you choose? Why?
We have already learned that the jobs the early settlers relied on depended on the resources of the area in which they lived.
Think again about the jobs listed on the fact file.
Look at the map on page 205. What is the connection between the resources and the jobs?
Read pages 206-207 Answer these questions in your social
studies spiral. (You must copy the question if it will help you study for your test later on.)
Why do you think Boston and New York became thriving trade centers?
Summarize three possible outcomes for Africans being captured and brought to the slave ships.
The Mid-dle Pass-age was the tripThat left our land be-hindThe slavers, they destroyed our homesAnd stole us by and byThe ships were crowded, dark, and coldWith not enough food to eat…….Ma-ny died be-fore they saw the shoreOf the West In-n-diesThe Middle Passage was the tripThat left our land be-hind…………