Melissa Fleming

SLMMCD 521

Web Drop-In #2

Plymouth Pilgrims
 

 

 


Hello 7th grade from Ms. Fleming’s Reading class & Mr. Wilson’s Social Studies class!  In Ms. Fleming’s class you have been reading the book Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth & in Mr. Wilson’s class we have begun learning all about the pilgrims that landed on Plymouth Rock & other early settlers.  How exciting is it that the field trip we have planned to visit the Plymouth Plantation & the Mayflower II is only a week away!  We have some sites we want you to take a look at about our first settlers here in America, so you will have a better understanding of our founding fathers, and the troubles they had their first years in America.

 

                        Instructions:  Below are 4 websites that you will read through to get a better in depth understanding

                        of the first pilgrims that landed on Plymouth Rock.  The assignment below is very easy to complete,

                        so you will finalize the assignment, and hand back the journals to either Ms. Fleming or Mr. Wilson. 

                       

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Description of Site

 

 

Click Here!!!

The Pilgrims as People:  Understanding the Plymouth Colonists

The Mayflower Voyage

The “First Thanksgiving”

Glossary of Pilgrim Terms

 

 

 

ASSIGNMENT:  Now that you have read about the Pilgrims and can correlate some of their hardships, with those of which Constance had.  Your assignment is that you are going to write a one page journal entry in which you are a pilgrim on the Mayflower.  Use some of what you have learned from reading Constance and from the following websites to help pull together your journal entry.  Be extremely detailed in your writings, and include some of the glossary words (*hint, hint*) what you read about to make you journal entry more vivid and exciting!  This is a fun project for you to do, so be creative, and become a pilgrim in the 1620’s!