Estate Inventories:

Ambroise went to the estate sale of Marie Catherine Baron. Take a look at the inventory of her estate in Clues to the Past
• Use the estate inventory of Marie Catherine Baron as a model to make an inventory of your bedroom, living room, and kitchen.



Compare your inventory list with that of Marie Catherine Baron's.

• What did she have in her house that you don't have?
• What do you have in your house that she didn't have?
• Are there any similarities between your inventory and hers?



Make a museum label:

Choose your favorite object from your inventory list and draw it or take a photograph of it. Can you write a museum label for your object?

• For an example of a museum label go to Objects
  Select one of the objects and read the text underneath it. Notice how the text is organized:
  1. the name of the object and the date it was made
  2. a list of the materials used to make the object
  3. a brief narrative describing how the object was used, maybe its cost, and who made it.

Map Activity:

• See if you can trace the route the table from Marie Catherine Baron's estate inventory would have taken to reach Illinois from Quebec, Canada.
  • Read about her table in Objects
  • Trace the two different routes the table could have taken from Canada to Illinois in Maps

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