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Colonial Chronicles: Insights into Daily Life in Early America

Step back into 18th-century Colonial America through the eyes of an English journalist. Explore various aspects of daily life, including Native American interactions, colonial trade, leisure activities, and more. Immerse yourself in the culture and society of the time through this informative and creative journal.

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Colonial Chronicles: Insights into Daily Life in Early America

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  1. Describing the social history of colonial America Warm up: if your family decided to move to a foreign country, what three things would you want to know about daily life there?

  2. Activity • You are an 18-century English journalist who has spent a year living in and learning about Colonial America. • You are writing a journal to Englishmen that don’t know about America informing them of the land and the culture. • Choose 10 of the following areas to write about. Your report needs to be descriptive and creative. This is a project so visuals, typing, time, & care are needed. • Due Date: January 12, 2009

  3. Slices of Colonial Life • Native Americans Teaching and Helping Colonists • Native Americans and Colonists in Conflict Over the Land • Enslaved People and Their Treatment • Quilting Bees • Life on the Small Farm • Colonial Trade

  4. Slices of Colonial Life • Leisure • Communities • Class Differences • Courtship and Gender Relationships • Marriage • Religious Rituals

  5. Slices of Colonial Life • Importance of the Church • Food • Literacy and Education • Families • Life on the Frontier • Death and Funerals

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