POPULATION: 198 000

 

 

LOCATION: United States (primarily Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana); Canada

(mainly Ontario)

 

LANGUAGE: German, English

 

 

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E=Oh hello, I didn't notice you there. What a pleasure it is to meet you. This is our farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. My name is Suzie Schwartzentruber.

 

L=Hello, my name is Eli Schwartzentruber. I am Suzie's husband. We don't have any children, but my wife, Suzie, is expecting in 3 months.

 

E=Oh, yes that is true, Eli.

 

L=I hope our snickerdoodles are almost done.

 

E= Me too. I love good old Amish recipes.

 

BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!

 

L= Oh looky here they're done

 

E= Thank goodness! I'm really hungry.

 

(L & E walk out of the room. L ,carrying the tray of snickerdoodles, walks in with E)

 

E= The way to make snickerdoodles is with love and care.

 

(E says ingredients and L says directions)

 

L= I still can't believe that people don't know who we, the Amish, are.

 

E= It's not that hard to know that we are a religious group of German and Swiss ancestry.

 

L=And that still observes customs of the 19th century.

 

E=That's right

 

L=Well, I have to go milk the cows, now.

 

E=And I have to finish cleaning

 

BOTH=(waving) See you next time!

 

SUBJECT/TOPIC

 

 The Amish

 

 

RESEARCH QUESTION

 

 Who are the Amish people?

 

 What are their lives like without modern utilities?

 

 

RESPONSE TO RESEARCH QUESTION

 

 The Amish people are a religious group of German and Swiss ancestry that still observes customs of the 19th century rural society.

Though the Amish people live without some modern utilities they still enjoy their living style. Most people think it is amazing that they don't live with modern utilities. For example they have no television or computer or i-pod etc...

 

 

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

 

 Though some Amish drive automobiles, horse and buggy is the common form of transportation.

Family carriages may be topless or covered by a black, white or yellow top.

 The value of respect in the household trickles down to the children, who learn quickly to honor their parents' word. Children learn over and over again to obey their fathers and mothers. The mothers chores include cooking, sewing, gardening, cleaning, tending to the chickens, and some milking. Raising children is her mian job.

 

Amish living quarters are similar to are similar to non-amish homes. Typically a two-story structure, would be made out of pale brick. Generally, there are barns, a well-kept lawn, a carriage shed, and storage buildings. Windmills are a familiar sight. None of the rooms have electrical appliances. There may be a gas-powered refrigerator and stove, but electrical appliances. No electrical wires reach from roads to houses.

 

Men dress in simple dark clothes with no outside hip pockets. In most communities, they wear suspenders, and hats. The strictest groups favor wide hat brims(over 3 inches).

 

Amish women and girls wear modest dresses mafe from solid-coloures fabric with long sleeves and a full skirt (not shorter than half-way between knee and floor). These dresses are covered with a cape and apron and are fastened with straight pins or snaps. They never cut their, which they wear in a bun on the back of the head. On their heads they wear a white prayer covering if they are married and a black one if they are single. Amish women do not wear jewellery.

 

Men and boys wear dark coloured suits, straight-cut coats without labels, broadfall trousers, suspenders, solid coloured shirts,black socks and shoes,and black  or straw broad-brimmed hats. Their shirts fastened with conventional buttons, but their suit coats and vests fasten with hooks and eyes. They do not have moustaches, but they grow beards after they marry.

 

The Amish feel these distinctive clothes encourage humility and seperation from the world. Their clothing is not a costume; it is an expression of their faith.

 

 

Although they are spread through 20 American states, 75 percent of the Amish live in  Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.

 

Origin in Europe. 

 Though some Amish drive automobiles, horse and buggy is the common form of transportation.

Family carriages may be topless or covered by a black, white or yellow top.

 The value of respect in the household trickles down to the children, who learn quickly to honor their parents' word. Children learn over and over again to obey their fathers and mothers. The mothers chores include cooking, sewing, gardening, cleaning, tending to the chickens, and some milking. Raising children is her mian job.

 

Amish living quarters are similar to are similar to non-amish homes. Typically a two-story structure, would be made out of pale brick. Generally, there are barns, a well-kept lawn, a carriage shed, and storage buildings. Windmills are a familiar sight. None of the rooms have electrical appliances. There may be a gas-powered refrigerator and stove, but electrical appliances. No electrical wires reach from roads to houses.

 

Men dress in simple dark clothes with no outside hip pockets. In most communities, they wear suspenders, and hats. The strictest groups favor wide hat brims(over 3 inches).

 

Amish women and girls wear modest dresses mafe from solid-coloures fabric with long sleeves and a full skirt (not shorter than half-way between knee and floor). These dresses are covered with a cape and apron and are fastened with straight pins or snaps. They never cut their, which they wear in a bun on the back of the head. On their heads they wear a white prayer covering if they are married and a black one if they are single. Amish women do not wear jewellery.

 

Men and boys wear dark coloured suits, straight-cut coats without labels, broadfall trousers, suspenders, solid coloured shirts,black socks and shoes,and black  or straw broad-brimmed hats. Their shirts fastened with conventional buttons, but their suit coats and vests fasten with hooks and eyes. They do not have moustaches, but they grow beards after they marry.

 

The Amish feel these distinctive clothes encourage humility and seperation from the world. Their clothing is not a costume; it is an expression of their faith.

 

The Amish faith group has attempted to preserve the elements of late 17th century European rural culture.

Almost every member of the Amish community are born into and raised in the faith.

Converts from outside of the community are rare.

 

 

RESOURCES USED

 

 

Amman, Jacob. "Amish people". 15 April, 2007

         http://www.religiousmovements.lib.virginia.html.

 

Author unknown."Amish". World Book. May 3, 2007

 

Dulk, Andrew."Amish religion".30 April, 2007

          http://www.religioustolerance.org.

 

Holmes, Lily. "The Amish". 30 March, 2007

        <http://www.google.ca/theamishreligion>.