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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In this newly revised edition of The Gristmill, young readers will discover that people would travel from far and wide to visit the gristmill for the essential service of having their grain ground. Find out how the miller produced flour, the staple of life, as well as what jobs the miller did, what made the grinding stones turn, and how wheat becomes bread.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This newly revised edition of Visiting a Village is an ideal introduction to understanding the concept of community. Children will learn how the people in early communities worked together with a spirit of cooperation by trading their goods and services with each other. Knowing about what they might see on their first visit to an historic site will help spark a child's curiosity.
In this book, they will meet such individuals as: the miller, the sawyer,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tour of Historic Williamsburg in Virginia, one of the first settlements in America. See the village much as it was when it was first settled. Photographs of the village and its inhabitants give you a feel of what life must have been like in colonial times.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
In this newly revised edition, John and his sister Emily live with their family in a farming community. After rising at sun-up to do their chores on the farm and in the household, John and Emily's day begins with a long walk to the one-room school. A Child's Day also describes: reading and ciphering, "making their manners," the different expectations boys and girls had for their future, children's books, toys, and games.
7) Fort life
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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This newly revised edition describes how building a school was a priority once an early community became established. Students of all ages shared one teacher and the same four walls year after year. A One-Room School describes how the teacher, a respected member of the community, was entrusted with the responsibility of teaching reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Children will enjoy seeing inside a one-room schoolhouse and discovering: what subjects...
12) Old-time toys
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes various aspects of the lives of women and girls during the nineteenth century, including their lack of educational opportunities, restrictive clothing, pastimes, courtship and marriage, and limited employment prospects.
14) In the barn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the barn as the center of farm life for early settlers of North America.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the plantations that existed in the southern United States into the nineteenth century, examining what life was like for the owners of these large farming communities, their children, and the slaves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the elaborate Yuletide customs of the period between 1837 and 1901, when Queen Victoria ruled Britain, and discusses how these customs were adopted and sometimes changed in the United States during the same period.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Takes a look at the various rooms in a grand Victorian house, explaining the design and purpose of each and describing the furniture, lighting, and decorations used in the context of daily life during the second half of the nineteenth century.
19) Colonial home
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Language
English
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This newly revised edition takes readers into a Colonial Home of the 1600s and 1700s. See inside the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedchamber and the barn. Learn why immigrants from England, France, and Spain were drawn to North America, and how plantations in the South grew and prospered through the slave trade.
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