Transcript Life in the English colonies

Chapter 6 Lesson 1
LIFE IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES
WORKING AND TRADING
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.
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APPRENTICE
(TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME)
I’m my master’s ap-pren-tice
I -am learn-ing his trade
I do the jobs he won’t want to do
I’ll fetch the water and build the fire too
He teach-es me how to black-smith
So I can be one –you’ll see
I will work, learn, and study all day
‘Cause I’m learn-ing my trade…
ARTISAN (KOOKABURRA)
An artisan is a skilled work-er
He has a job that people need
Work artisan – work Artisan do your job for me
An artisan is a rope mak-er, blacksmith,
or a car-pen-ter
Work artisan – work Artisan do your job for me
TIME TO READ
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 differences
My Life Colonial Times
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FACT FILE
 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?
JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
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?
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COLONIAL TRADE ROUTES
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.)
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 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.
MIDDLE PASSAGE
(AMAZING GRACE)
The Mid-dle Pass-age was the trip
That left our land be-hind
The slavers, they destroyed our homes
And stole us by and by
The ships were crowded, dark, and cold
With not enough food to eat…….
Ma-ny died be-fore they saw the shore
Of the West In-n-dies
The Middle Passage was the trip
That left our land be-hind…………
MAP ACTIVITY
Look at the map on the “Colonies Begin to
Trade” worksheet.
 How do we use the key to help us get
information from the map?
 What are raw materials that come from the
colonies?
 Add slaves as an import from the West Indies
into America.
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