Family Life


Please answer the following questions

 

                                                                  

How many people typically lived in one house? 
What was the role of the father/mother? 

http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/OSL/colonial_america.htm

house

By what age did a boy become an apprentice?

            What happened when he turned 18?

            What happened when he turned 21?

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/dufiefes/ColTrade/ColTrades03.html

What were you listening to when you visited the above Website? (Extra credit)



When was a girl ready to be married?

            Once married what were her duties as a wife?

 

http://info-center.ccit.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part1.htm



What was The New England Primer?

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/NewE1ngP1rm.asp

What were some of the games the children liked to play?

 

http://www.cesa10.k12.wi.us/Investigate-America/colonial/families/Recreation/games.htm

 


primer

Activity

 

Make a cornhusk doll.

 doll

http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/cornhusk.htm


dollsteps