Vividness can best be obtained by a study of the writings of the time, especially of Bradford's _History of Plymouth_.

Use pictures in every possible way and molding board as well.
Emphasize the lack of true liberty of thought, and lead the children to understand that persecution was a characteristic of the time and not a failing of any particular colony or set of colonists.
III A CENTURY OF COLONIAL HISTORY, 1660-1760 Books for Study and Reading References .-- Fiske's _United States for Schools_ 133-180; McMaster's _School History_, 93-108 (life in 1763); _Source-Book_, ch.
vii; Fisher's _Colonial Era_; Earle's _Child Life_.
Home Readings .-- Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Franklin's _Autobiography_; Brooks's _In Leisler's Times_; Coffin's _Old Times in the Colonies_; Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_; Scudder's _Men and Manners One Hundred Years Ago_..