The Amish Way of Life
Pictures
Vocabulary
| flour | reaper | Mennonite |
| beard | harvest | horse buggy |
| barn | pacifism | horse carriage |
| wood | dialect | wheel (2) |
| spoke | furniture | blacksmith |
| cloth | service | home-cooked meal |
| pie | clannish | ethnocentric |
| rural | fruitful | hard working |
| feast | caldron | coming of age |
| kettle | portrait | dairy farm |
| barn | frame (2) | dairy cows |
| hay | scythe | suspenders |
| plow | tractor | saddle (2) |
| sow | field (3) | blacksmith |
| soil | trade (3) | sew/sewed/sewn |
| spin | cultivate | carpentry |
| yarn | church | church services |
| turnip | bonnet | strawberry |
| wheat | harness | blueberry |
| straw | textile | raspberry |
| bake | lumber | market (3) |
Here are some pictures. Answer the following questions for each.
1. What is this? This is a . . . . .
2. Where is this place? This is a . . . . .
3. Describe the weather. What season is this? What month is it?
4. Who is this person? He is . . . . . She is a . . . . . They are . . . . .
5. What is she doing? What’s he doing? What are they doing? He is . . . . . .
6. How does he feel? He is . . . . . . .
7. What will happen next? They will . . . . .
Horse Buggy Horse Carriage
A Farm A Family
Amish House Interior
Plowing Harvesting Corn
Furniture Maker Building a House
Cooking Family Meal
Marketplace Restaurant
Meal Preparation Meal
