COLONIAL  TIMES

Reading about the life of the people in Colonial Times with my students certainly receives many reactions from them and one being sheer disbelief.  "I can't believe they had to live like that."  "I feel so sorry for them."  They had such a terrible hard life."  They see the pictures and read about what their daily life consists of and then think about their daily life in comparison.  So then we discussed do you think the children in Colonial Times liked or disliked their life???  They were mixed on that question.  Some saying they didn't know any other way to live so they were comfortable with what they were doing.  Others said they were basically treated so poorly that they had to have hated it.