Edinger House

Welcome back! I know that you saw a lot and learned even more about the lives of Pilgrims on your recent trip to Plimoth Plantation.

Let’s make a list of the various aspects of Pilgrim life that you studied and experienced during your visit:

• Pilgrim meal (manners, utensils, food)
• Activities (games, writing with a quill, clothing, mystery home)
• Native American Home (several homes, hides, children, canoe)
• Mayflower II
• Fort and canons
• Graveyard
• Village doctor
• Main Street
• Build/plaster a house
• Worked in fields
• Craft center (making a sail, glazing pottery)
• Gardens
• Brewster and the firewood
• Alice Bradford cooking
• and much more!

While you were away, I listened to the descriptions of your pilgrim characters. Many of your characters left family behind. Knowing what you know now about life in a new settlement during the early 1600s, write a letter to those family members who did not travel on the Mayflower. Pick several of the topics we listed above and describe the living conditions in Plimoth. How does your character overcome the challenges of life in a new settlement?

Be sure to practice using some that Pilgrim vocabulary, too!