When you wake up in the morning and stand on your front porch, everything as far as you can see belongs to you!    As a large landowner in the colonies, you are no doubt a very wealthy individual. And chances are that you don't take care of the land by yourself.   You probably have help.   A lot of help, in fact!

What we want to know for your "Who's Who?" page is how you do it, and what your life is like!

Using the web pages provided, and the book you check out of the library, answer all of the questions at the bottom of this page. You need to answer all of them, and give as much detail as you can.   If you find interesting information that isn't in these questions, feel free to add it!

First, the websites you will use:

Topic	Website	What you can find here.
Colonial Life	Life In Colonial America	Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia; Article about life in Colonial America.
	The Founder of Rhode Island	An article about the founding of Rhode Island, one of the New England colonies.
	William Penn	An article about William Penn, who founded Pennsylvania in the Mid-Atlantic colonies.
	The founder of Jamestown	An article about the founding of Jamestown, one of the Southern colonies.
	Occupations and Customs in Colonial America	Information about Colonial America occupations and customs.
	Religion and Education in Colonial America	Information about Colonial America religion and education.
	People and Society in Colonial America	Information about the people and societies of Colonial America.
	The religious reasons	Some religious reasons for people settling in the colonies.
	Colonial Information Articles	A lot of articles on different topics dealing with Colonial America.
	America's Story	Colonial America information
	A hard journey	All about the passage to America for the first colonists.

Topic	Website	What you can find here.
Plantation Life	Plantation Life	A primary source document about life on a colonial plantation.
	Farming in the 13 Colonies	All about Farming in Colonial America.
	Plantation Owners and Slavery	Information about Plantations, their owners, and slavery
	Settlers in the Colonies	About the settlers in the colonies.
	Land by "Headright."	How some large landowners got their lands.
	Large Land Grants	How some people got large grants of land in colonial times.

Answer these questions.     Use the websites that are provided, and the book you check out during your assigned library time (along with any other books you may find).

1. What is your name? Are you married? Do you have children? If so, how many?

2. Where do you live? Do you live in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, or Southern colonies?

3. Why did your family settle in the colony that they did? What were their reasons for coming to the "New World?"

4. What is your lifestyle like (meaning: are you very wealthy?)

5. What type of crops do you grow on your land?

6. Do you have help tending to your fields?

7. Do you own slaves or have indentured servants working for you? How many slaves do you own? What jobs do they perform? Tell us if they work in the fields, or in your home, or both. What are their lives like?

8. What do you do with the crops that you grow? Do you grow them for food for yourself and your family to eat, or do you sell them?

9. What is the climate like where you live? What type of house do you live in? What does it look like? What type of clothes do you wear? Do you buy your clothes or fabric to make them, or are your clothes made at home?

10. What is the society like around you? Do you have a lot of friends or neighbors? Is everyone very "proper" and well dressed? Do you and your family attend any parties or balls?

(Add any more information that you may come across that you find interesting or important.   Remember, it is your job to tell everything you can about this colonist for the Who's  Who book that you need to write.   When you are finished, it should be about one typed page long.)

Your last step is to find a picture on the computer.   This can be a clip art picture, a picture you find online, or one that you scan in to the computer, to add to your colonist's page. We will discuss in class how to add pictures to your paper on the computer, but if you need any help, be sure to ask!