1. Get out your materials (quotes, colors, pictures, magazines, etc) so you can get started after the brief introduction!

2.   The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.readingprimerAmerican Coloniestextbookschooling before the 1790s  In the 17th century, the schoolbooks in use had been brought over from England. By 1690, Boston publishers were reprinting the English Protestant Tutor under the title of The New England Primer. The Primer included additional material that made it widely popular and colonial schools until it was supplanted by Noah Webster's Blue Back Speller after 1790. Noah Webster What is the New England Primer?

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6.   You are going to create the NEW New England Primer!  With the letters of your name, insert quotes that mean something to you  Decorate your Primer in a way that makes YOU want to learn from it  Quotes must be actual published quotes, not something your mom told you this morning  This will be due Monday, 9/12 for presentations! (date change!) What to do!

7.   Finish NEW New England Primer  Study for your Vocabulary test  Reading logs due! Weekend Reminders