If You Sailed On The Mayflower

by Mcgovern, Ann; DiVito, Anna

• ISBN13: 9780590451611
• ISBN10: 0590451618
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-11-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Summary

What if you sailed on the Mayflower?

A different time...a different place...What if you were there?

If you sailed on the Mayflower
--What could you take with you?
--How would you keep clean?
--What would you do when you first got to shore?

Get ready to go back in time to 1620 to discover what it was like to sail the Mayflower!

Author Biography

Ann McGovern has been writing children's books for over 35 years. She has published over 45 titles including STONE SOUP, several books in the IF YOU LIVED.... series, and SCRAM, KID! (Viking, 1974), which won the Horn Book Award. McGovern spent part of her career at Scholastic, where she created the See-Saw Book Club. McGovern lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Who were the Pilgrims?	p. 10
Where does the Pilgrim story begin?	p. 11
What kind of ship was the Mayflower?	p. 14
How many people sailed on the Mayflower?	p. 17
Who sailed on the Mayflower	p. 19
Were the people on the ship friends?	p. 20
What could the Pilgrims take with them?	p. 22
What would you eat and drink on the Mayflower?	p. 23
Where would you sleep?	p. 25
Would you be able to keep clean?	p. 26
Was it a safe voyage?	p. 27
Would you have had any fun on the Mayflower?	p. 29
Would you get into trouble on the Mayflower?	p. 30
When did the Pilgrims first see land?	p. 32
How did the Pilgrims feel when they saw land?	p. 33
What were the first laws the Pilgrims made -- even before they left the ship?	p. 35
What was the first thing the Pilgrims did when they got on shore?	p. 36
What did the Pilgrims find on Cape Cod?	p. 37
Why didn't the Pilgrims stay on Cape Cod?	p. 38
What happened on the last exploring trip?	p. 39
Did they land on Plymouth Rock?	p. 42
Why did the Pilgrims decide to stay in Plymouth?	p. 43
How did the Pilgrims plan to build their town?	p. 44
What was the first building in Plymouth?	p. 46
Did they work every day?	p. 47
How did the Pilgrims spend their first Christmas?	p. 48
What was one of the biggest problems in Plymouth?	p. 49
Did the Pilgrims have any medicine?	p. 50
Who were the Pilgrims' first friends?	p. 52
What did the Pilgrims learn from Squanto?	p. 54
How did the Pilgrims and the other Indians get along?	p. 55
What were the terms of the peace treaty?	p. 56
Would you live in a log cabin?	p. 57
Where would you sleep?	p. 58
What kind of furniture did the Pilgrims have?	p. 60
What kind of table manners were the children taught?	p. 62
What did the Pilgrims wear?	p. 64
Were there special jobs for boys and girls?	p. 66
Did children go to school?	p. 68
What rules did people have to obey?	p. 69
Did people break the rules?	p. 70
What happened to the Mayflower?	p. 72
Were there special days for fun?	p. 73
What did the Pilgrims have to be thankful for?	p. 74
What day was the first Thanksgiving in the New World?	p. 75
Who took part in the holidays?	p. 76
What did they eat for Thanksgiving?	p. 77
How did the Pilgrims spend Thanksgiving?	p. 80
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