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Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community Lesson PlanFrederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community Lesson Plan
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Frederica: An 18th-Century Planned Community

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Students explore life as early settlers in Frederica by pretending to be crafts/tradesmen there and writing letters describing the fort/town to a friend or family member still in Great Britain, debating reconstruction vs. preservation, and discussing plan

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colonization, national parks

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5th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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