the doctor's office . . .
Students acted as buyers and sellers, in a colonial marketplace activity. Students chose to pay by barter (with eggs), credit (with tobacco leaves promising a future crop harvest), or indebtedness (an I.O.U.). Shops included a candlemaker, shoemaker, joinery (wooden furniture), blacksmith, doctor's office (with candy 'medicine' to be ground up with a mortar and pestle), and grocer. You can correctly predict that the most popular shop was: the doctor's office . . .
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Cay Lee
5/4/2015 03:09:04 pm
Ye olde blacksmith shoppe! Love it!
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AuthorMs. McGill is a public school librarian at Stony Point Elementary. She has previously taught all subjects in 4th & 5th grades, and creative nonfiction at UVa's Young Writers Workshop for nine summers. Categories |