Scarlet Letter Pre reading:
By: Will Switzer, Nick Reed, Obi Obialo
Web Quest Questions
1. Describe the clothing worn by men and women in Salem. What types of fabrics were used? Articles of clothing included felt hats, ruffs, doublets cuffs, breeches, garters, stocking, and shoes. Fabrics used were cotton and hemp.
2. How did their clothing support their religious views? They were puritans, so the everyone had to cover up all revealing parts of the body.
3. Describe the types of homes that probably existed in Salem. Wooden cabins with many furnaces and heat sources. Explain what a palisade is and why it was necessary. sometimes called a stakewall – is typically a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks and used as a defensive structure.
4. Describe the family life of Puritans? strict, disciplinary, often characterized as joyass, represive and often brutal
5. Describe a Puritan meal. Early European settlers in America at first tried to carry on cooking and eating as they had at home, wherever that might have been. But they had to adapt or perish, and food changed to meet the tough new conditions of the New World. The Massachusetts Bay colony was no exception.
6. How did their food and eating habits support their religious views? Their foods and eating habits supported their religious views because cooking was forbidden on the Sabbath, the first day of the week, Sunday, similarly observed by most Christians in commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ,
so leftovers from Saturday dinner, like the navy beans (Boston Baked Beans) and salt pork, were served with Boston Brown Bread at Sunday breakfast/lunch and that became a tradition for the people.
7. Compare the Puritan daily life to your own. The apparel is different. People still go to church. The way we eat is different.