Directions:
As you click on each page you will see some questions in the box on the right. Talk to your partner about the questions that go along with each picture. Try to make some connections to our current life and the lives of the people in the pictures.
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/valerie09/trailview/97118
What is going on in this picture?
What do you notice about the children?
How do you think they feel?
What do you see in this picture?
What is in this picture that you wouldn't see at the fair now?
How is this picture of the fair different or similar to a picture that you might take of the fair?
Where did the family live at first? How is that different from where you live?
What was the famillies 2nd house made of? Is that similar or different from your house?
Why have houses changed from then to now?
How has clothing changed from colonial times to now?
What types of clothing did colonial children wear they you don't wear now?
Why do you think you don't wear the same clothing anymore?
What did the children do in their daily life?
How is it similar and different from what you do?
Why don't you think you do what the children in colonial times did in their daily life?
How is school in colonial times different and similar to your school?
Why have things changed?
How is how people got around in colonial times different from how we get around now?
Why do you think it has changed?
This is a family sitting and eating dinner.
What do you notice in this picture?
What is the same and what is different from your family and when you eat dinner?
This is a picture of the NC State Fair.
What do you notice about this picture?
What is different about the state fair now?
This is a movie theatre in downtown raleigh.
What are the differences between this movie theatre and a movie theatre you might see today?
