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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including the following:

A Day in the LifeA DAY IN THE LIFE
Video Series and Companion Teaching Resources CD

Spend a day in Williamsburg in May 1774! Eight episodes with lesson plans and primary sources. Each 18-minute video is a window to the daily life of people in early America. In this four-video set, some of the 18th-century people with whom you'll spend a May day include: Tom, an apprentice carpenter; Mr. Carter, a counselor to the royal governor; Daniel Grove, a young gentry man who will escort Mr. Carter's daughter to an evening ball; Jill, a slave on the Grove plantation; Anne, a free black seamstress; Patsy, the daughter of a store owner, and many more. Includes a CD-ROM with 180 pages of lesson plans and primary source materials. (Grades 4–8), $99.00. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.

 

EnslavedENSLAVED
Becoming Americans Video Series

Slavery—the ownership and forced exploitation of one person by another—was part of life in the American colonies. How did slavery come to America? Two 20-minute episodes explore the legal progress of the race-based chattel slavery system that has influenced the course of American history to this day. 40-minute video with Web access to comprehensive teacher materials. (Grades 4–8), $34.99. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.

 

Slavery: A Colonial OdysseySLAVERY: A COLONIAL ODYSSEY
Lesson Units: Educating America's Citizens

Explore slavery's pervasive influence on the new American nation. This unit includes lessons on the slave trade, slavery, and the slave economy, life as a slave, slave culture and traditions, and slave codes, and includes the book Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake by David Brion Davis. 144 pages. (Grades 5–12), $34.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.

 

Slave's BagHANDS ON HISTORY: SLAVE'S BAG
Hands on History Object Kit

Slaves often carried their personal belongings in a bag or basket. This simple drawstring fabric bag contains a bill of sale, an oyster shell, flint and steel, a wooden spoon, a pewter button, a piece of chain, a feather quill, and a pair of stockings. Each kit contains artifacts, a Discovery Worksheet, annotated artifact inventory, glossary, graphic organizers, primary sources, and illustrations (Grades 3–8), $75.00. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.

 

Caesar's Story: 1759CAESAR'S STORY: 1759
A Colonial Williamsburg Young Americans Series Book

Why do things have to change? Caesar lives with his family, but he is a slave, and when the master selects him to be a personal servant in the big house, Caesar has to obey. 165 pages. (Grades 4–6), $9.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.

 


Stories Under African SkiesSTORIES UNDER AFRICAN SKIES
Stories in the African American Tradition

Stories and music were essential to African culture and to the African American culture forcibly transplanted into the New World. This recording, with a special narration by "Roots" author Alex Haley, brings together the stories of these uprooted Africans and some of their music. Cassette. $10.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.

 

A Williamsburg HouseholdA WILLIAMSBURG HOUSEHOLD

What was everyday life really like in the colonial period? This story, with full-color photos taken at Colonial Williamsburg, examines an entire household—both white and black—and shows the stark contrast between the lives of the slaves and the people who owned them. 48 pages. (Grades 3–5), $7.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.