Resource: Colonial House
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QuickTime Video
Length: 4m 38s
Size: 12.4 MB
In an experiment to experience the realities of life in colonial America, seventeen people in 2004 participated in a reenactment to build a settlement on the New England coast in a similar scenario to settlers of the year 1628. In this video segment from Colonial House, modern day colonists struggle to build homes, grow crops and fight frequent illness caused by exhaustion and exposure to cold. They also have to establish relationships with the native Passamaquoddy people in order to gain the seed needed to plant a corn crop. There are fears exhibited by both sides when the colonists and the Passamaquoddy people first meet.
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Loading reviews...Teachers' Domain, Colonial House, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.colonial/
- Frame and Focus
- Follow Up
- Connections
- Standards
Print Frame and FocusThe following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?
Frame (ELA) What does the term, “point of view,” mean? What are the different points of view that can be used when telling a story or describing and event? How can point of view bring about different outcomes in a narrative?
Focus (ELA) As you watch the video, determine the different points of view that could be used to describe the events taking place. What effect does the point of view have on the way the characters are portrayed?
Frame (SS) Who were the first Europeans to settle in America? What were the major causes of their re-settlement? What impact did European settlement have on Native American populations?
Focus (SS) As you watch the video, determine the primary goods that were traded between the colonists and the native people.
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