You are a new colonist from the country of your choice. Write a letter home. Describe the New World, including
the landscape, plants, animals, people, and weather. What do you think of the natives? How do they live? What
type of home do you have? What do you eat? What are your fears and hopes? What do you do for work? Fun?
Below are just resources
*Resources*
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (Links to an external site.)
https://www.loc.gov/collections/travels-in-america-1750-to-1920/
” comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and
the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about
1750 to 1920.”
Early Americas Digital Archive (Links to an external site.)
http://eada.lib.umd.edu/
“Courtesy of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Collection of electronic texts originally written in
or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.”
History Matters (Links to an external site.)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/
This site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary
documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. Emphasis is on materials that focus on the lives of ordinary
Americans, many of which deal with the Colonial Period.