Archive for the 'Pilgrims' Category
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 [...]
Over the last couple of days Edinger House students have been creating characters who might have (but didn’t because they are made-up) traveled on the Mayflower. Listen to them describe these characters:
Rose Minter: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Christopher Bitteridge: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Alice Charlotte White: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Alice Desire Wilder: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Catherine Anne Grant: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Christopher Tilley: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Dorothy Desire May: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Edward Carver: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Elizabeth Ann Button: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Elizabeth Crackston: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Elizabeth Love Browne: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download James Martin: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download John Hopkins: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Jonathan Brewsington: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Samuel Fletcher: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download William Goodman: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download William Taylor More: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Catherine Anna Clarke: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadLast Friday we began reading Mourt’s Relation, one of the first and most important primary sources about the Pilgrims. We read a version that retained the original spelling and capitals and discovered that in 1622 (when it was published) there was no conventional spelling or use of capitals. They spelled anyway they wanted [...]
From Ms. Younge:
Here is a GREAT website for you to check out at home. You can tour the Mayflower, compare the daily lives of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag, and watch a slide show on the Thanksgiving Feast. It has lots of great pictures and a Thanksgiving Web Quest quiz. Enjoy!
Okay, folks, you did a great job yesterday reading and (in most cases) annotating the first section of the packet with Ms. Stokien.
(Here is what last year’s class did to remind you.)
Now you need to do the rest in preparation for our Pilgrim Jeopardy game (which we will do as soon as you [...]
Bibliography
1. Open House account.
2. Find Pilgrim Bibliography.
3. Drag it to the desktop.
4. “Save as” yournamebibliography.doc
5. Delete books you did NOT use.
6. Save and then add to the end of your story.
7. Put this version of your story in the “ALL DONE (except for copyediting)” folder.
Introduction
Your introduction should give your readers some idea why [...]
Hi everyone,
Here are the Pilgrim vocabulary words that we shared with each other in class on Monday. I encourage you to add more words to your own list that you find interesting, or to share words that you are not sure what part of speech they are. Then as a class, we can [...]
Please read your previous post (on what you expected the trip to be like) and then write a good post reflecting on the trip. Here are some ideas:
What surprised you.
What was as you expected.
What were the different activities like (e.g. The Wampanoag Homesite, the Mayflower II, and the 1627 Pilgrim Village).
What about the evening activities? [...]
Here are some of the great links that I showed you today:
Mayflowerhistory.com
Detailed history on each passenger
Things they brought (scroll down for John Smith’s list of suggestions)
Portraits of the passengers (only two authentic ones)
Girls on the Mayflower
Families in Plymouth
Life in Plymouth
The Wampanoag
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Beyond the Pilgrim Story (scroll way down [...]
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