You work day after day in the fields that you own, taking care of land, animals, and your family.   As a farmer in the colonies, your life is a busy one, and usually not that glamorous! From sun up to sun down, chances are your work is never done.  

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:

General Websites about Colonial America:

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.

Websites about Colonial Farming:

Topic	Website	What you can find here.
Farming	Farming in the 13 American colonies	A short article about farming.
	Colonial Farms	Farming in colonial america.
	An Outline of American History	Information about the Colonial Period.    Look for farming information under the different regions.
	Subsistence farming	Information about subsistence farming (hint: it's what many of the smaller farms did!)
	A history of farming	A history of farming with some good key points from colonial times.
	Colonial America	Sometimes farmers were grouped in the "Lower Class" or "Middle Class."  This is some information about the lower and middle class and who they were comprised of.
	Middle Class Colonists	Some more information about "Middle Class"  colonists, of which many were farmers.

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. Are you very wealthy? are you comfortable? Or do you consider yourself to be poor or "struggling?"

5. How much land do you own? What type of crops do you grow on your land? Do you raise animals on your farm? What type of animals do you raise?

6. 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? Do you do both?

7. Do you have help tending to your fields? Do you do most of the work yourself? If you do, who helps you? Do you have hired help? Do you own slaves like the larger landowners? Do your children help you on the farm?

9. What is the climate like where you live? What type of house do you live in? Is it large, or small? What is it made of? 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 social events, like parties or balls?

11.   How are you treated by the other people in your society?   Are you looked up to, and respected?   Do people look down at you?   Are you treated unfairly, badly, well, or normally by those in the colonies around you? Does this affect your life, and how?

(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!