Hi friends, and welcome back to my channel.
It is me Jenisha Stanley again,
and today I'm going to review the book
'If you were me
and lived in colonial America'. This book
was written by Carole P Roman, and it was created by Sarah Wright.
And I'm going to say this to the author,
'Thanks Ms. Roman for giving me the book'.
This book has 60 pages, and no actual
chapters. This book talks about
the first people who settled in the new
world,
were North America. They came from
England.
This is what present day England looks
like, right over here.
But in those olden days, England didn't
look like this.
This is what it looked like, no Big Ben,
no double-decker bus,
no nothing. If you were a boy,
your... your name would have been 'Comfort
or Abraham'.
If you are a girl your name would have
been 'Patience
or Mercy', why?. Because those are some
very famous names in the 1500s.
England followed a religion called
catholic,
but then king Henry-VIII broke away from
the catholic church,
and formed his own world, the church of
England. Well,
why did he do that?. Well, he wanted to
divorce his wife,
but the catholic church never allowed it,
which is why
he broke away from the church, and then
formed his own one
called 'The Church of England', and then
after Henry VIII,
queen Elizabeth-1 became queen, and she
followed that same faith,
and then 100 years later, it was illegal
to follow any other church than the
rulers,
and some people wanted religious freedom, and by the time Columbus had already
discovered the new world,
which is why stories of the new world
got into England's ears, which is why
some people wanted to go to the new
world. So
they boarded these two ships called the
Mayflower
and the Speedwell, and then next stop,
the new world. Even though
two ships were sent to the new world,
only one got there.
the Speedwell caught some leaks, which
is why it returned to England.
While the Mayflower made it to the new
world,
and then the Mayflower stayed there for
a little while,
and then returned. They were stuck there
with no way to get home. So
it was winter by the time we got there,
it was bitterly cold,
which is why they built the skeleton of
a house,
and then they mix dirt, clay, and grass
to get this plaster called daub, and then
they stuck it to make the whole house. It
took around two months to make.
About half of the population was wiped
out, and
very few of the people survived that
winter, and made it into the spring.
And by the time 11 homes were built. It
was a village, it was called Plymouth
village, and then soon
if you were there you would have met
this boy.
he was from the Wampanoag tribe. The
Wampanoags were
a native American tribe that lived there
before
the settlers came, and
and he gave you corn seeds, and also
he taught you how to cut some herring or
fish to include in the furrow that
fertilizes the soil.
Also the native American boy taught you
how to plant
squash, melons, pumpkins,
and more things, and by the time lots of
animals arrived on the following
ships, such as ducks, geese,
goats, sheep, you had everything. So you're calling it was growing
more, and more, and more. Now
I'm going to tell you about the first
thanksgiving. In the fall of 1621,
you and all the others settlers were
there for a year. so that was the the first
anniversary,
and the native Americans joined you for
this giant feast
along with the native chief named
Masalite.
So there was this giant feast that
everyone ate,
and here it is. It is the first
thanksgiving. It was in the fall of 1621.
In 1627, the colony had grown to 160
people.
So there were lots of vegetables that
you could trade for for nice warm fur from
the native Americans. This fur was used
to keep everyone warm in the bitterly
cold winters.
How do you feel?. Did you imagine that you
were part
of the first settlements of north
America?.
I feel great. So everyone go and read
this book to imagine you were part of colonial
America.
