Lesson Plan

Pilgrims & Mayflower Lesson Plan: Bigs Edition

Read the Mayflower Compact and Winslow's 1621 letter, and ask whose voices are missing.

This is the Bigs Edition of Pilgrims & Mayflower: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 7-8. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: What do the Mayflower Compact and Edward Winslow's 1621 letter tell us, and whose voices do they leave out?

The Week

• Mon: Reading the Compact (Reading) • Tue: Was It Democracy? (Writing & Words) • Wed: Dead Reckoning Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: Winslow's 1621 Letter (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Two Voices of 1621 (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Pilgrims & Mayflower has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 7-8 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Bigs (grades 7-8), about 90 to 120 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Dead Reckoning Lab
• Sequence cards (From Patuxet to Plymouth) and a cut-and-sort page (Source, Myth or Debated?)
• Writing page: Was the Compact Democratic?
• Hands-on project: Two Voices of 1621: A Museum Panel
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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