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<h1>🔨 A Walk Through a Colonial Town</h1>
<h2>Week 24 &bull; Tuesday &bull; Shops, Jobs, and Busy Streets</h2>



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<h3>📖 Reading Time</h3>
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<p>Let's take a walk down the main street of a colonial town. Clip-clop! A horse pulls a wagon past the shops. Every shop has a special worker with a special job.</p>

<p>The <strong>blacksmith</strong> hammers hot iron into horseshoes and tools. The <strong>cooper</strong> makes wooden barrels. The <strong>cobbler</strong> makes and fixes shoes. The <strong>printer</strong> prints newspapers, and the <strong>baker</strong> fills the street with the smell of fresh bread.</p>

<p>In the middle of town stands the meetinghouse, where people gather for church and town meetings. There were no big factories back then — almost everything was made by hand, one piece at a time. These skilled workers were called <strong>craftspeople</strong>.</p>

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<h3>✏️ Reading Questions</h3>

<p>1. What does a blacksmith make?</p>

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<p>2. Who makes and fixes shoes?</p>

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<p>3. What happened at the meetinghouse?</p>

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<p>4. Why do you think craftspeople were so important to the town?</p>

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<h3>📝 Vocabulary Grid</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Write what each word means in your own words.</p>
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<div class="vocab-card"><strong>blacksmith</strong><div class="line-row"></div><div class="line-row"></div></div>

<div class="vocab-card"><strong>cooper</strong><div class="line-row"></div><div class="line-row"></div></div>

<div class="vocab-card"><strong>cobbler</strong><div class="line-row"></div><div class="line-row"></div></div>

<div class="vocab-card"><strong>printer</strong><div class="line-row"></div><div class="line-row"></div></div>

<div class="vocab-card"><strong>craftsperson</strong><div class="line-row"></div><div class="line-row"></div></div>

<div class="vocab-card"><strong>meetinghouse</strong><div class="line-row"></div><div class="line-row"></div></div>

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<h3>📊 Match the Worker to the Job</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Write the name of the worker who does each job: blacksmith, cooper, cobbler, printer, or baker.</p>
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<tr><td>Bakes fresh bread</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>Hammers iron into horseshoes and tools</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>Makes wooden barrels</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>Prints newspapers</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>Makes and fixes shoes</td><td></td></tr>

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<h3>✏️ True or False</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Write T for true or F for false in each circle.</p>

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<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Colonial towns had big factories.</div>

<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> The blacksmith worked with hot iron.</div>

<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> People gathered at the meetinghouse.</div>

<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> A cobbler prints newspapers.</div>

<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Most things were made by hand.</div>



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<h3>🧠 Think About It</h3>

<p>1. Which colonial job would you want? Why?</p>

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<p>2. Where do we get shoes, bread, and tools today? How is that different?</p>

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<h3>✏️ Fill in the Blanks</h3>

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<span>blacksmith</span><span>barrels</span><span>cobbler</span><span>hand</span><span>meetinghouse</span><span>baker</span>
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<p>1. The <span class="fill-blank-line"></span> hammers hot iron into tools.</p>

<p>2. The cooper makes wooden <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>

<p>3. The <span class="fill-blank-line"></span> makes and fixes shoes.</p>

<p>4. The <span class="fill-blank-line"></span> fills the street with the smell of bread.</p>

<p>5. People gathered for meetings at the <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>

<p>6. Almost everything was made by <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>



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<h3>🎨 Draw It!</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Draw a colonial main street with at least two shops. Add signs so we know what each shop sells!</p>
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<h3>📊 Review</h3>
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<tr><td>Jobs people did in colonial towns</td><td>YES &nbsp; / &nbsp; NOT YET</td></tr>

<tr><td>What craftspeople made by hand</td><td>YES &nbsp; / &nbsp; NOT YET</td></tr>

<tr><td>What the meetinghouse was for</td><td>YES &nbsp; / &nbsp; NOT YET</td></tr>

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