Colonial Life, Region by Region: Social Studies Unit 3, Grade 5 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Colonial Life, Region by Region is Unit 3 of The American Story Begins: Peoples, Contact, and a New Nation (Grade 5), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 46 pages.

• Geographic features of the three colonial regions
• The link between regional geography and regional economy
• The distinction between indentured servitude and chattel slavery
• The daily and family life of enslaved people under chattel slavery
• The triangular trade route and its cargo
• The causal role of geography in producing different regional economies
• The pattern connecting geography, economy, and labor system
• The three-region comparison chart structure
• An argument about regional resistance to change, supported by regional evidence

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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