Life in the Lower, Middle & Upper Colonies

COLONIAL AMERICA

DISCUSSION

How does where you are from define you?

AGE OF EXPLORATIONPRE-COLONIAL AMERICA

AMERICA: THE STORY OF US

GOOGLE EARTH & THE 13 COLONIES

Investigate

Journals, Memoirs, Essays, Art, Literature, Artifacts

Analyze

What do these documents tell us about the individuals, groups

of people, society and their role in history?

Make Conclusi

ons

“Paint the historical picture” you see based on what you read, heard, saw and discussed.

What does it look like?

SO…WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?

WHAT WE’RE GOING TO CREATE

Colonial Facebook

Helpful Hints When Investigating Primary Documents: 1. Who is the author? Based on what you find in the document can you determine their importance, place, or role in history?2. Examine the language the writer uses. What might this say about their age, sex, ethnicity, education, location? (e.g. grammar, vocabulary, type of information)3. See if there is a date on the document so you can put the article in a historical context (e.g. It might be surprising to find a letter written by a young female slave during the 18th century because many of them couldn't read or write) 4. Ask yourself how this document may compare to other primary sources, textbooks, movies, hearsay etc. that you have read, watched or heard.5. Try to determine what may have motivated the writer to create the piece they wrote.6. When examining artwork or photos place whether it is a photograph, statue, painting, re-creation of an event or an actual snapshot, etc. 7. With regard to art what might the dress/appearance of the individuals tells us about them? What about their placement in the medium (i.e. is the person or group of people in the foreground or the background? What about details of the environment or how the characters are portrayed?

HELPFUL TIPS FOR EXPLORING PRIMARY

DOCUMENTS

EXIT PASS

On a piece of paper write down how where you’re from has shaped

your life.

HomeworkBring in an artifact you are willing to share that

reflects where you’re from.