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Your page teller Hi!!! Your host today, Me! My name is Bob (my mommy gave me that name) and I’ll be hosting your education show TODAY!!! Don’t ask me why my teeth are purple. Well… maybe that’s ‘cuz when I was made on Microsoft Paint and copied onto this slide, and made transparent, my teeth would become black. And that would look ugly on me! Anyways, let’s get on with the show!!!!! *echoes: SHOW!!!* Doesn’t he look familiar? ? ? *flashback* Look back into when you were about 8 years old… Doesn’t he look a little like Timmy Turner from the Fairly Odd Parents? Maybe just a teensy little bit? ? ?

A Person 1234 Rainbow Road Colorful County ABCDE Bob Finkleburg Education Show Studio Schoollywood Dear Bob, What was education in Colonial America like? Well… let’s find out!!! From, A person

1 School in Colonial America was different from our schools today in materials, organization, and so on. • there were no laws saying that the schools had to be comfortable. So guess what? The schoolmasters didn’t bother making it! YAY!!! • the schoolhouses had only one room. All the students would sit together so it was very crowded and uncomfortable. • that one room was very cold in the winter and their only heat source was the fireplace. The boys had to take turns gathering firewood for the fireplace. If they didn’t or forgot to do so, they were punished and had to sit far away from the fireplace. Isn’t that like a timeout chair? • the families had to pay the schoolmaster in corn. As said before, the schoolhouses were uncomfortable so families were (looking at it from a modern person’s perspective) basically paying for their children to go to educating prison houses. Oooh!!! Did they count sticks all Who are day? ? ? you? ? ? No Sillyupside. Your Billy!!! down reflection Silly Billy!!! . . .

• most of the students in schools were boys • girls studied at home. They were either taught by their mothers or by tutors. • at home, girls learned how to perform the duties of a plantation mistress. • girls didn’t go to school so instead, they learned from a governess who was either from England or just somewhat educated. They learned basic reading and arithmetic so they could read the Bible and record household expenses • older boys studied math, science and other subjects which helped them into college • only white people were allowed to go to school. African slaves were not allowed to be educated Well, weird little dude, remember that girls were home schooled. They Well, if girls weren’t studied basic household stuff like allowed to go to school, sewing and cooking. They also NOT FOR then what did they learn? studied other subjects like music, SCHOOL French, art, and needlework. Don’t think they were uneducated. 2

Children had to go to school because the law said so. If they went to school, the knowledge gained would help them in the future. The subjects that they learned would give them a better advantage in getting better jobs. A school was built for every town with 50 families. 3

4 • children went to school during the winter • they worked the rest of the year (summer, fall, and spring) • they all went to the same school which had one room Time Event 7: 00 A. M Boy’s School Day starts Period Time Dinner Is Served! (Triangle Dings) 8: 19 – 9: 04 2 9: 07 – 9: 52 9: 55 – 10: 40 4 10: 43 – 11: 28 11: 31 – 12: 16 6 2: 00 – 5: 00 P. M 1 5 They get Breakfast 8: 00 – 8: 16 3 9: 00 A. M. Homeroom 12: 19 – 1: 04 7 1: 07 – 1: 52 8 1: 55 – 2: 40 P. M. Homeroom 2: 43 – 2: 49 Dismissal 2: 50

What they had: What they didn’t have: • a lump of lead or goose quill for writing • homemade ink • bark from birch tree to write on • paper, but it was very expensive • a board with a piece of paper on it which had the alphabet on it • this board was used for reading and writing • blackboard/maps • textbooks • pencils or pens • computers • other modern stuff that wasn’t invented at that time 5

I don’t know what a school looked like! I of a A replica didn’t live in Colonial America! Sheesh… schoolroom Stop asking me all these questions. Maybe you can find out by reading this nice book by Mark Thomas. Doesn’t it look familiar? ? ? *flashback* Just kidding!!! Of course I know First schoolhouse on south side of what a school looked like! I know school street (1748 -1810) everything!!! I’m funny right? SAY I’M FUNNY. day…really got A typical school Ha! I you. 6

7 Schools in Colonial America included subjects similar to the subjects we learn in school. Bob told the editors, Jasmine and Amanda, to make a chart—not a venn diagram—comparing and contrasting what they learned and what we learned so here it is: Colonial America Schools Both Mark Twain I. S. 239 • poems • science • prayers • math • Greek/Latin • reading • celestial navigation • writing • fencing • social studies/history • social etiquette • geography • plantation management } • in England: law or medicine BOYS • a foreign language (French, Italian, and Spanish) • occasionally: bullying and cyber-bullying

Education in colonial America affected their society in many ways. For example: • they can read the bible • the girls could record/calculate household expenses • they can read advertisements/flyers • they can write letters to other people (if they were rich enough to buy paper) Super Awesome Ad 8

Colonial America Schools • students were physically punished if they misbehaved (for example: schoolboys were whipped for misbehavior, if you didn’t know your lessons, you had to wear a dunce hat and sit out) • only went to school in the winter • girls stayed at home and studied needlework, art, music, etc. • they had to sit on hard benches without desks • schoolhouses had only one room • all different ages were put together in that one room Both Mark Twain I. S. 239 • have some kind of punishment for bad behavior • punishment for bad behavior is a phone call home • teachers have some kind of salary • learned how to read and write • learned science, history, math, geography • both had a leader of the school (schoolmaster & principal/chancellor) • learn a foreign language • schools weren’t usually not comfortable (French, Latin, Greek, • the schoolmaster was paid in corn and/or other Spanish, Italian) foods • handwriting was more important than spelling • students would advance to higher-leveled work as soon as they knew everything in the New England Primer book That’s uneven! Did I pay you guys to make an uneven chart? • heat came from a fireplace ONLY • people thought girls should learn reading and writing • towns with 50 families had to have a school 9 • no physical punishment, instead, we get yelled at (YAY!!!) • have many books and modern technology to study from • have seats and desks in school • we get suitable lunches and free breakfasts • students are assigned to their classes/grades • we stay in school for about 10 months (5/6 of the year) • we stay in school for about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week You don’t even pay us!!!

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