Lesson 2 What were the relationships, structures and functions within colonial families?

Lesson 2 What were the relationships, structures and functions within colonial families? Back to Home Page Tasks - Identify and Sort Information 1. Review the documents and sort into categories - primary and secondary sources 2. Review the documents and information into categories - 3. Draw the contents of your home pdf 4. Write a letter back to England describing life pdf 5. Compare the costs and benefits of indenture for both the servant and master. 6. Assume you are a teenager considering considering an indenture for travel to the New World. What would you do and why? 7. Assume the role of a servant and write a letter home to England describing the conditions of your life. 5. "Document My World" Depict your family structure and function today
Documents	Format	Subject
Responsibilities of family members
Doc 1 School Law of May 1642	Text	Responsibilities of parents
Doc 20 The Well-Ordered Family	text	Instruction for raising children
Doc 22 Enforcement of the literacy and catechism law	text	Punished for not teaching children to read
Doc 23 Responsibilities of tithingmen.	text	Neighbors watch out over family behavior
Doc 24 Single persons not allowed to live alone	text
Doc 26 A Puritan girls diary	text	Diary of 15 yr old 1675
Doc 27 Book of Manners	text	Proper behavior children. Defines roles with parents
Doc 26 Condemnation of Captain Underhill	text	Caught "praying" with neighbor's wife

Relationship master - servant
Doc 19 Mistreatment of servant girl	text	Work of servant, relationship with masters
Doc 8 Disputes between Masters / Servants	Text	Court record re; relationship shows mutual responsibility
Doc 28 Discipline of apprentices	text	Two examples of apprentices disciplined for bad behavior, Salem, Massachusetts, 1669
Doc 29 Indentured boy freed	text	because of ill treatment by his master
Doc 30 Indenture reversed?	text	Servant may end up owing the master?

Tough life in the new world
Doc 2 "Forefathers' Song”	Text	Conditions and production
Doc 3 letter from Thomas Dudley	Text	Struggle in NE
Doc 11 Letter from Colonist Pond	Text	letter home to parents struggle in the new world
Doc 33 The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Image 1	image
Doc 34 The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth image 2	image
Family economics - production, possessions, work
Doc 5 Women and spinning	image	family production
Doc 6 Estate of Will Wright	Text	Contents of home
Doc 7 Possessions by Categories	Text	Overview of inventories
Doc 4 The Mason Children Painting	image	children and formal dress
Doc 9 Workday Schedule of Francis Pepper	text	Daily activities
Doc 10 Occupational Distribution	text	how they made a living
Doc 31 Pilgrim Dress	image
Doc 32 John Alden's Letter	image
Doc 35 Fireplace interior	photo	Fireplace and Colonial Utensils in Washington's Headquarters ( OK to use as an image?)
The physical environment
Doc 13 “Hall and Parlor” style house	diagram	Layout and size of home
Doc 17 Town map - town and farm lots pdf	map	Layout of community
Doc 18 Puritan Towns and Villages	text	Geography of settlement patterns in NE
Doc 16 NE Migration Map pdf	map	shows locations and movement of population
Doc 21 Fireplace cooking utensils pdf	image
Doc 25 Old homes -choose from among 4 surveys	contemporary photos and diagrams	House 1 house 2 House 3 House 4
Doc 30 The Allyn House
Demographics
Doc 12 Age distribution 1650 and today exl	graph	Demographics by age and gender -comparison to today
Doc 14 First Marriages in Plymouth pdf	table	demographics ( needs to be simplified)
Doc 15 Size of Households pdf	table	demographics