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Native Americans Colonists Slaves Pioneers

Class Questions for Report

1. Introduction - Identify the group.  Give a background of where your group came from and when and where they lived.
2. What types of homes did they have?
3. What types of food did they eat?
4. What types of clothing did they wear and how was it obtained?
5. How did they spend their spare time?
6. What problems or obstacles did they have to overcome?
7. What types of education did they receive?
8. What are some interesting facts that you learned?
9. Give a personal response or reaction to the group you have studied.

Each paper should contain the following:

a. Cover (with picture)
b. A typed written report - a paragraph for each question (9 paragraphs).  In addition, each paragraph should begin with a topic sentence.
c. Bibliography - Include title and author of the materials you have used.  Include title and URL address for web pages.
d. Outline - Include the outline that you used for writing your paper.

Native Americans

North Carolina History: Early History
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTM#Early History

North Carolina Indians
http://www.doa.state.nc.us/doa/cia/flyer.htm

Early Native American Life
http://www.bmcc.edu/Bimaadzwin/Traditions/dbowers.htm
North Carolina's First Colonists: 12,000 Years Before Roanoke
http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/1stcolo.htm
Crafting North Carolina
http://www.mintmuseum.org/craftingnc/01_na-01-00.htm
Melissa's Myriad: Cherokee Page - A Summary of Cherokee History
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8020/cherokee.html#history
Stories along the Trail - The Cherokee Trail of Tears - Cherokee Indian Slave Story
http://rosecity.net/tears/trail/slavesty.html

Iroquois Landscape
http://jamaica.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/iroqh.htm

Town Creek Indian Mound
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/towncree.htm

Eastern Woodland Indians
http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/woodland2.html

Colonists

North Carolina History: Colonial Period
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTM#Colonial Period
First English Settlement in the New World
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/english1.htm
North Carolina by Abbe
http://ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/4R/4r98/abbe.htm

Colonial Kids
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/

Colonial Life
http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/Colonial/Life/Life.html

Children in Colonial Times
http://www.nps.gov/fofr/col_kids.htm

Life during the 18th-Century: Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/life.cfm

A Colonial Family and Community
http://www.hfmgv.org/education/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html

Liberty! Perspectives: Daily Life in the Colonies
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives/farmscene.html

Schooling, Education, and Literacy, In Colonial America
http://alumni.cc.gettysburg.edu/~s330558/schooling.html

Slaves

Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina - Chapter I: Introduction to Slavery
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bassett96/bassett96.html#p11

Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina - Chapter III: Religious and Social Life
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bassett96/bassett96.html#p56

African-American Archaeology at Somerset Place State Historical Site
http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/amonth/somerset.htm

About Old Salem: African American History
http://www.oldsalem.org/about/africanamericans.htm

Biography of Harriet Ann Jacobs: Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself.
http://www.ncwriters.org/hjacobs.htm

Life of a Slave
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/life_of_a_slave.htm

PBS Kids: Learning Adventures in Citizenship: Slavery: Life as a Slave
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode1/topic3/e1_t3_s2-ls.html

Of Kith and Kin: Life as a Slave
http://www.pbs.org/williamsburg/kin/life.html

Colonial Williamsburg Journal: To Live Like a Slave
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/slave.cfm

George Washington and Slavery
http://www.mountvernon.org/education/slavery/index.asp

Pioneers

Vance Birthplace: Mountain Pioneers
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/vance/vance.htm
Appalachian Culture
http://blueridgeparkway.areaparks.com/parkinfo.html?content=culture
About Old Salem: History of Old Salem
http://www.oldsalem.org/about/history.htm
Colonial NC - North Carolina History Colonial Period
http://ashevillelist.com/Colonial_wnc.htm
American Pioneers
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/SOAR/Projects2000/PioneerWeb/
Pioneer Life
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001587/
Scugog Shores Historical Museum - Pioneer Life
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/scugog/piolife.htm
Pioneer Life
http://www.naschools.net/teachers/scott2/scott2.htm
B.G./L.G. Settlers Homepage
http://www.prairie.district96.k12.il.us/Museum/homesettlers.html
"School Days"
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/scugog/school.htm

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