Colonial Children Stories
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USA was created through the blood and sweat of early colonial settlers, each colony working hard to explore and settle in unchartered regions taking the risk of building a community. As time goes by, all their hard work and toil has paid off producing sprawling urban cities and communities.
Today, many children have found the thirst in finding out about the history and the culture of their locality, the best way to learn about them is through books and stories.
Parents can teach their children about history by reading them colonial stories. Colonial stories are stories from the past about heroes, battles and revolutions that took place to attain freedom. It also includes early life of people living in the era of colonization, ancient civilization and founders of nations and other important events which are catalysts for change.
Children can learn about the country’s colonial era by reading, discussing, writing, experimenting, researching and making things. The children could relate to the stories in the past, in a way that it becomes meaningful for them. Colonial stories are introduced in English literature and non-fictional materials in Social Studies. Colonial stories can be found in biographical pieces, novels and pictured books about revolutionary leaders of wars and famous colonial leaders.
Phoebe the Spy is a very informative, appealing and entertaining novel, where the content and vocabulary are simple. The story is a fiction but somewhat based on historical facts which brings pleasure to children while they read.
This is a story about a thirteen year old girl, Phoebe Fraunces who became a spy to prevent the assassination attempt of George Washington, who is a general that time. The patriots in the novel use the Queen’s Head Tavern owned by Phoebe’s father Sam Fraunces to be the meeting place in New York City. Phoebe become the general’s housekeeper and reported every danger to his father. Eventually, he saves the general’s life by catching the assassin.
The characters and events in the story were patterned in real life events proven by a history magazine where articles about the Loyalists of Great Britain during the revolutionary era and the plot of kidnapping Washington can be found. It also discusses the roles of American and Africans in the early days.
War Comes to Willy Freeman is an exciting and dynamic historical fiction depicting similar realistic views found in Phoebe the Spy. This novel challenges the reading skills of your children.
It is a story about a thirteen year old black heroine Wilhelmina Freeman. Willy and her mother gained their freedom through Colonel of his enlisted father. But the war brought despair to Willy when she witnessed how her father died in battle and how her mother became a slave of a white family. The story depicts the realistic lives of free black men and slaves during that time.
My brother Sam Is Dead is an award winning literary piece. It also deals with realistic pictures and harsh realities of war, and why it has to be fought. The children can enhance their study about revolutionary war.
These novels can introduce the children into the elements of colonial life through the depicted chores in the story and learn that inn or tavern during that era became the activity centers in a town or village.
Children can learn how important the past is to the present. This is the reason why history became an important part of a school curriculum where colonial stories are taught. Traditional methods might bore the children so teachers, as well as parents should be flexible and creative in choosing the strategies and materials.
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