Friday, September 22, 2017

Lesson on Friday, September 22, 2017

Bell ringer: Journal 21 - what ideas, institutions, and responsibilities shaped New England farm women’s lives?

Agenda:

1. Have students read a longer excerpt from Benjamin Wadsworth’s The Well Ordered Family (constitution.org/primarysources/marriage.html). How does Wadsworth define the responsibilities of husband and wife? How do these responsibilities differ from those of husbands and wives today?

2. Identify Causes: What factors threatened the freeholder ideal in mid century New England, and what strategies did farming families use to preserve this ideal? 

3. What social tensions did the freehold ideal cause?

4. How were the challenges posed by population growth similar to and different  from those posed by today’s population growth?

Thinking Like a Historian 4

5. Discuss thesis formulated for this section. Write on the board and discuss.  

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Episode 1 of the PBS series “New York: A Documentary Film” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyUV6A8fQ04

Home Learning: Read pages 122-132 / Stop at "Religious Upheaval in the North / Journal 22 - What attracted German and Scots-Irish migrants to Pennsylvania in such large numbers? / Journal 23 - What conditions and ideas lay behind the emergence of the Enlightenment in America? / Journals 11-20 will be graded on Monday, September 25, 2017.

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