Day 1  At School

Choose a Colonial Craftsman. 
Then click on the box below to answer the questions.

1. Give a brief description of what your craftsman does each day in his shop.  (2-3 sentences)
2. What are some of the tools and materials that your craftsman used each day?
3.  What are two interesting facts that you learned?

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At Home

4.  You are a craftsman or shopkeeper in eighteenth-century Williamsburg. You have rented a shop on Duke of Gloucester Street. Now you need a sign or symbol for your shop. (Remember, even though many people can read they still need to find your shop so they can deal with you.) Your sign should tell customers what your shop has to offer. It should be simple, colorful, and easily remembered by your customers.  Your sign should be on an 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of paper so that we can scan it into your PowerPoint presentation.

Day 2   Back at School  

Create a slide show in PowerPoint. 
Your show should have 3 slides.

Slide 1:  Scanned image of your shop sign
Slide 2:   A description of your craftsman's job
Slide 3:   Two or three interesting facts that you learned about your craftsman.

  Alternative Activities

Create shop signs using MSPublisher.
Create a brochure advertising your craft using MSPublisher.
 

 

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