Author: Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Ann McGovern
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780833587763
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Looks at the homes, clothes, family life, and community activities of boys and girls in the New England colonies.

Author: James Janeway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: Eva Moore
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590929219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A story of Williamsburg' in colonial times.

Author: MARA L. PRATT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033071243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1556525397
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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An authentic, rich tapestry of women's lives in colonial America Using a host of primary sources, author Brandon Marie Miller recounts the roles, hardships, and daily lives of Native American, European, and African women in 17th- and 18th-century colonial America. Hard work proved a constant for most women—they ensured their family's survival through their skills while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants and slaves. Elizabeth Ashbridge survived an abusive indenture to become a Quaker preacher, Anne Bradstreet penned epic poetry while raising eight children in the wilderness, Anne Hutchinson went toe-to-toe with Puritan authorities, Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse built a trade empire in New Amsterdam, and Martha Corey lost her life in the vortex of Salem's witch hunt. With strength, courage, resilience, and resourcefulness, these women and many others played a vital role in the mosaic of life in colonial America.

Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Jami Borek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780991536658
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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As a servant, and orphan, and worst of all, a girl, Amelia's dreams for her future were at odds with her times, but she wouldn't let that defeat her. A heartwarming tale for young and old set in 1771 colonial Virginia, Amelia's Dream is the sequel to Amanda's Secret.

Author: E. Jennifer Monaghan
Publisher: Studies in Print Culture and t
ISBN: 9781558495814
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the sometimes wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners. For the most part, religious motives underlay reading instruction in colonial America, while secular motives led to writing instruction. Monaghan illuminates the history of these activities through a series of deeply researched and readable case studies. An Anglican missionary battles mosquitoes and loneliness to teach the New York Mohawks to write in their own tongue. Puritan fathers model scriptural reading for their children as they struggle with bereavement. Boys in writing schools, preparing for careers in counting houses, wield their quill pens in the difficult task of mastering a "good hand." Benjamin Franklin learns how to compose essays with no teacher but himself. Young orphans in Georgia write precocious letters to their benefactor, George Whitefield, while schools in South Carolina teach enslaved black children to read but never to write. As she tells these stories, Monaghan clears new pathways in the analysis of colonial literacy. She pioneers in exploring the implications of the separation of reading and writing instruction, a topic that still resonates in today's classrooms. Monaghan argues that major improvements occurred in literacy instruction and acquisition after about 1750, visible in rising rates of signature literacy. Spelling books were widely adopted as they key text for teaching young children to read; prosperity, commercialism, and a parental urge for gentility aided writing instruction, benefiting girls in particular. And a gentler vision of childhood arose, portraying children as more malleable than sinful. It promoted and even commercialized a new kind of children's book designed to amuse instead of convert, laying the groundwork for the "reading revolution" of the new republic.