Samuel Eaton's Day

Samuel Eaton's Day by Kate Waters.  Homeschool subjects covered:  United States history, Pilgrims, Colonial times, Thanksgiving customs.

Samuel Eaton's Day is a charming, award-winning story with text and photographs that follow a six-year-old Pilgrim boy through a busy day during the spring harvest in 1627: doing chores, getting to know his Wampanoag Indian neighbors, and spending time with his family.

Samuel Eaton is a young boy living in an early American settlement in the year 1627, and today is the day he will help with his first rye harvest! If he can prove to his father he's up to the task, he will be able to help with all of the harvest. But harvesting rye is even more difficult than he expected. Was he foolish to think he could do a man's work?

Samuel Eaton's Day is recommended reading in the following homeschool curriculum:  Illuminations.