Junior High Reading finished the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and is now reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond. This story deals with a young girl, Kit, who has been orphaned by her parents and grandparents. When her beloved Grandfather died, she was forced to sell his plantation to pay outstanding debts, sold her personal slave to pay for passage from Barbados to Wethersfield, Massachusetts and lived there with her Puritan Aunt and Uncle. During her stay in Wethersfield,, Kit befriends a lonely Quaker woman named Hannah Tupper who has been labeled as a witch by the local Puritans. Kit also has been suspected of being a witch because, unlike other women of the time, she knew how to swim.
In order to learn more about the Salem Witch Trials, the class did a miniature web quest by answering questions about the site
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/
Did you know that Puritans did not believe in reading plays, celebrating Christmas, or speaking to Quakers?
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