Virginia’s hostility.
Troubles with the Indians— Susquehannoughs and Pocomokes.
Civil War in England.
7. For the life in the colonies, reading periods may be occupied with readings from any good book that gives a graphic account of the times, such as Alice Morse Earle’s Home Life in the Colonies. If the sand table is used, the children should consult these books. Another way to vary the procedure, if there are books enough, is to assign readings and let the pupils bring to the class accounts of the details of the life in the colonies that seemed most interesting to them individually.
In the Affairs of Interest it will be necessary for the teacher to tell about the conditions in England. Mowry, Guerber, or Warren may have all the information necessary for this purpose, but Cheyney’s European Background of American History should be studied by the teacher. The European background can be very simply drawn.
The Kent Island affair may be read before being discussed, but there is good problem work there, and the better plan would be to read the text last. Text: Gambrill, pp. 21-25, 99-111.
References:
Tudor Jenks, When America was New.
Chap. IV, “Maryland and the Dutch.”
Chap. V, “New World Living.”
Chap. IX, “What the Colonists Knew and Thought.”
Wm. H. Browne, Maryland, The History of a Palatinate.
Alice Morse Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days.