American
Colonization
Grade Level:
5
Unit Overview: The
unit that I created includes the following topics:
B. Life on Southern
plantations
C. The founding of New
England
D. Religion in New
England
E. Education and trade in New
England
F. The founding of the middle
colonies
G. Philadelphia
Lesson
plan: Education in New England
Objective:
Students will demonstrate how colonial children
learned to read, by crating an alphabet book to give to a
kindergarten class.
Methods:
1. Discuss New England
Education
- As early as 1647 public
schools had been set up
- Children learned Puritan
religion along with their everyday lessons
- Learned to read from the New
England Primer
- Sometimes women ran a school
in their home called a dame school
- Children would learn the
alphabet, spelling, reading and arithmetic
- Girls learned how to sow and
weave 2. Make a alphabet book to give to
a kindergarten class. (My idea)
- Have students come up with a
theme for the book
- Give each student a letter of
the alphabet
- The student writes one or two
sentences about the letter and draws a picture to
represent it. Materials:
1. Several alphabet books
2. Colored paper
3.Markers, color pencils, or
crayons
This resource helped me out the most
it is the students textbook: Vuicich, George, et al.
United States. McGraw - Hill, 1983
Created by Karissa Hatton.
Completed as part of the requirements for ElEd 4050 Fall
semester, 1999, Jay Monson, course instructor,
USU.
A. The founding of
Virginia
- Puritans felt everyone
should be able to read the bible
- Show several alphabet
books as examples
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