{
"week": 24,
"day": "Tuesday",
"topic": "Colonial Towns",
"subtitle": "Shops, Jobs, and Busy Streets",
"icon": "🔨",
"pages": [
{
"title": "🔨 A Walk Through a Colonial Town",
"sections": [
{
"type": "reading",
"title": "Reading Time",
"icon": "📖",
"paragraphs": [
"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.",
"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.",
"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>."
]
},
{
"type": "questions",
"title": "Reading Questions",
"icon": "✏️",
"questions": [
{"text": "What does a blacksmith make?", "lines": "single"},
{"text": "Who makes and fixes shoes?", "lines": "single"},
{"text": "What happened at the meetinghouse?", "lines": "double"},
{"text": "Why do you think craftspeople were so important to the town?", "lines": "triple"}
]
},
{
"type": "vocab_grid",
"title": "Vocabulary Grid",
"icon": "📝",
"instruction": "Write what each word means in your own words.",
"words": ["blacksmith", "cooper", "cobbler", "printer", "craftsperson", "meetinghouse"]
}
]
},
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "sort_table",
"title": "Match the Worker to the Job",
"icon": "📊",
"instruction": "Write the name of the worker who does each job: blacksmith, cooper, cobbler, printer, or baker.",
"header": ["Job", "Worker"],
"rows": [
["Bakes fresh bread", ""],
["Hammers iron into horseshoes and tools", ""],
["Makes wooden barrels", ""],
["Prints newspapers", ""],
["Makes and fixes shoes", ""]
]
},
{
"type": "true_false",
"title": "True or False",
"icon": "✏️",
"instruction": "Write T for true or F for false in each circle.",
"items": [
"A cooper makes wooden barrels.",
"Colonial towns had big factories.",
"The blacksmith worked with hot iron.",
"People gathered at the meetinghouse.",
"A cobbler prints newspapers.",
"Most things were made by hand."
]
},
{
"type": "think",
"title": "Think About It",
"icon": "🧠",
"questions": [
{"text": "Which colonial job would you want? Why?", "lines": "triple"},
{"text": "Where do we get shoes, bread, and tools today? How is that different?", "lines": "triple"}
]
}
]
},
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "fill_blank",
"title": "Fill in the Blanks",
"icon": "✏️",
"wordbank": ["blacksmith", "barrels", "cobbler", "hand", "meetinghouse", "baker"],
"items": [
"The ______________ hammers hot iron into tools.",
"The cooper makes wooden ______________.",
"The ______________ makes and fixes shoes.",
"The ______________ fills the street with the smell of bread.",
"People gathered for meetings at the ______________.",
"Almost everything was made by ______________."
]
},
{
"type": "draw_grid",
"title": "Draw It!",
"icon": "🎨",
"instruction": "Draw a colonial main street with at least two shops. Add signs so we know what each shop sells!",
"boxes": 1
},
{
"type": "review_table",
"title": "Review",
"icon": "📊",
"header": ["I learned...", "Circle one"],
"rows": [
["Jobs people did in colonial towns", "YES / NOT YET"],
["What craftspeople made by hand", "YES / NOT YET"],
["What the meetinghouse was for", "YES / NOT YET"]
]
}
]
}
]
}