Global Citizens Colonial Tavern Project
Mr. Cutaiar (Social Studies) & Mrs. Messner (English)
7th Grade Stafford Middle School, Plattsburgh NY

Copyright © Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2005
Copyright © Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2005

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Working Files

Your Assignment

Letter for Parents

Research Worksheet

Revision Checklist

Rubric

Website Evaluation Guide

Diaries Outline

Diaries Outline Page 2

Diaries Mini-lesson

Virginia Company Lyrics

Creating Your Bibliography with:
M.L.A. Style

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Articles

First Thanksgiving

Colonial Cooking

Colonial Learning

Columbian Exchange

Hessians

Indigo

Plants of the New World

Religious Freedom

Tobacco

Farming in the South

Slavery inColonial North America

 

Colonial America – Web Resources

Colonial Williamsburg Resources
This Website is Awesome!

http://www.history.org/

Look Here for General Information about Your Colony

Ask Mr. Puschak for the password for home access


www.worldbookonline.com

Use ID: staffordms
P_ssword: see library staff

Education in the Colonies

http://alumni.cc.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html

Readings on the Colonies

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=97

18th Century Primary Source Documents from Yale

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm

Educational Resources from Stratford Hall Plantation

http://www.stratfordhall.org/index.html?EDUCATION

Colonial America Resources – A HUGE collection, organized by topic

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm

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Colonial Life Video Clips

Average Southern House Georgia Government Philadelphia Tobacco Plantations
Building Homes Hardships Philadelphia Life Trade
Charleston Indentured Servants Puritans Triangle Trade
Corn & Tobacco Indentured Servants & Slaves Rasing Animals Virginia: Governor's Palace
Daily Chores
Livestock Religion Wash Tobacco Plantation
Diversity Massachusetts Rice Plantations  
Education & Leisure Mount Vernon Plantation Slave Quarters  
Farm Life New England Economy Slavery  
Franklin New York Slaves  
Gardens, Food & Medicine Patroon System Smokehouse & Diary  

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Additional Resources

Marine History: Fishing & Whaling in New England

http://stellwagen.noaa.gov/maritime/maritimehistory.html

Back of the Big House:
The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation

http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/intro.html

African-American Experience

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/Af_Amer/aalife.cfm

http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar006745&sc=-1#h5

Africans in America Web site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html

The Growth of Slavery in North Americahttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr5_txt.html

Religion and Slavery http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr2.html

Life during the 18th-Century: Colonial Williamsburg

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/life.cfm

Trades in Colonial Williamsburg http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradehdr.cfm

Apothecary Gunsmith
Basketmaker Miller
Blacksmith Milliner
Brickmaker Printer & Binder
Cabinetmaker Saddler
Carpenter Shoemaker
Cooper Silversmith
Foodways Wheelwright
Founder Wigmaker

 

Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/food/foodhdr.cfm

Sampling 18th-Century Fare at Shields Tavern

http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/tavern.cfm

 

Raleigh Tavern at Colonial Williamsburg

http://www.history.org/almanack/places/hb/hbral.cfm

 

Colonial Currency

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/index.html

Classics of American Colonial History

http://www.dinsdoc.com/colonial-2.htm

Picture: Some colonial utensils
(Home Article: Colonial life in America)World Book

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