1. Tuesday, Oct. 11 1. Put your homework on my desk (Columbus Reading)
2. Update your table of contents
Date Title Entry #
10/4 Southern Region Worksheet
10/4 Triangular Trade map
10/5 Important Colonies
10/11 “London Chronicle”
10/11 What was it like to live in the colonies Notes
2. Turn to entry 34 and title it: “London Chronicle”

2. Write each question and answer it the following way: Mostly accurate, partly accurate, mostly inaccurate
London Chronicle
Study Shows Farmers Spend Several Hours Playing Cards Each Day
Unemployment Rises in Cities – Colonists Return to the mother country
Colonists Ignore Principles of Self-Government
African Merchants Make Fortunes Trading Cloth for Rum
Preachers Stir Colonists into a Frenzy
Shocking Investigation: New England Schools lack Spelling, Reading, and Arithmetic
New Survey: American Wives Say They Work Harder than Servants
Colonists Use Honeybees to Get Work Done

3. What was it like to live in the Colonies? #34
Placard
Notes from book/info. sheet
Answers to the questions on the placard
Answer to the key question on the placard
Life on a Farm
Life in Cities
Rights of colonists
Life for African Americans
Religion
Education
Colonial Families
Leisure

4. Conclusion
You are going to write a newspaper article titled: “What Life Is Really Like in the Colonies” (on a separate sheet of paper)
You will correct some of the inaccurate statements that were printed in the London Chronicle.
Must include:
An introductory paragraph
An accurate description of two or three aspects of life in the colonies. Write one paragraph for each aspect. In your descriptions, include your own conclusions. Support them with information from the primary and secondary sources and your notes from the book/info. sheets
A short concluding paragraph about your overall understanding of life
in the colonies