A Day in the Life

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  • Background Information
    • Family Life
    • Schooling
    • On-the-Job Training
    • Leisure
    • Sundays
    • Gentry and Middling Girls
    • Gentry and Middling Boys
    • Slaves
    • Conclusion
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Pre-Lesson: Apprentice Contract
    • John Draper Indenture Contract
    • Primary Document Analysis Organizer
    • Lesson One: Design a Day
  • Daily Activities of a Young Gentry Woman (Early Teens)
  • Possible Daily Activities of an Urban Slave Boy (Aged About 11, in a Gentry Family)
  • Possible Daily Activities of a First-Year Apprentice Carpenter
  • Lesson Three: About Town with a Slave Boy
    • Directions Sheet for City Layout
    • Scenario of Slave Boy's Errands
  • Post-Lesson: A Day in the Life of Prissy Carter, Dennis, Her Slave, and Thomas Moss, a Carpenter's Apprentice
    • Prissy Carter Task Cards
    • Dennis Task Cards
    • Thomas Moss Task Cards
  • Final Evaluation Activity



 

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