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Index:

• Directions
• Textbooks Needed
• Additional Reading Suggestions
• Activity Suggestions
• Internet Suggestions

Directions: This Unit is recommended for K- 5th+. It has been designed to be completed in four weeks. Your students will learn about . If needed, read over General Directions for Cindy's Unit Studies for more information on multi-level teaching.

Textbooks Needed:

• The Pilgrims at Plymouth by Lucille Recht Penner. Illustrated beginner Landmark Book. 48 pgs. Color. ISBN 0375821988.
• Life in Plymouth Colony, History Pockets, (Visual Learner and kids who like to color, cut & paste). ISBN 155799899X.
• The Birth of America 1580-1700, Early Settlements (History of America tapes), (Auditory Learner). Available only through Sing and Learn.
• Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes. (Kinethetic Learner). Also used for Colonial Unit. ISBN 0471161683.

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Additional Reading Suggestions - Using A Beka, Our American Heritage, 3rd ed:

• Pgs 38-47 (Miles Standish, Pilgrims, Mayflower), 3+
• Pgs. 48-61 (Squanto, Thanksgiving), 3+

Additional Reading Suggestions - Using Literature (All of these could be use as read-alouds):

• Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony, 1636 by Paul Erickson. 48pgs, color illus.
• Don’t Know Much About the Pilgrims by Kenneth Davis. 45 pgs, color.
• If You Sailed on the Mayflower by Ann McGovern.
• Mayflower, The. by Susan Whitehurst. 24 pgs, illus.
• Mayflower Secret, William Bradford, Excellent historical fiction with Christian emphasis.
• Miles Standish: Plymouth Colony Leader by Susan Martins Miller. 76 pgs, color.
• Our Strange New Land : Elizabeth's Diary by Patricia Hermes. (Dear America series), 110 pgs.
• Squanto's journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac. unpaged, illus. Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.
• Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne. Magic Treehouse series. 73 pgs, b/w illus.

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Suggested Videos:

• A Journey to the New World, Plymouth, 1920. (Check your library)

Activities:

• Use activites from Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes as needed.

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Internet Activities:

• You are the Historian. Online learning. Excellent! http://www.plimoth.org/OLC/index_js2.html

• Children in Colonial Times: http://www.nps.gov/fofr/col_kids.htm and http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/

• Thanksgiving Crafts: Gr. K-6 http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/index.shtml

• Mayflower Quiz: Gr. 1-6 http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/history/us/pilgrim/mayflowerquiz.shtml

• Colonial quiz: http://www.quia.com/rr/4049.html

• Pilgrim Voyage & Mayflower Replica Craft: Gr. 1-6, http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/map/index.shtml

• How to Furnish a Plymouth House: http://plymoutharch.tripod.com/id142.html

• Pilgrim Life Adventure (Lesson Plan): http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kimbrough/pilgrimlife/

• Mayflower Web Page (primary documents, photos, & more): http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

• Virtual tour of the Mayflower.

• Read the actual document making Thanksgiving a holiday in 1789.

Be sure to enter these topics on your copy of The Checklist.

Please let me know if any of these links do not work. Email: contact@oklahomahomeschool.com.

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