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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 SHOW 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
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
Whosticks
are all
day???
you???
NoYour
SillyupsideBilly!!!
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,
NOT FORsewing and cooking. They also
then what did they learn?
studied other subjects like music,
SCHOOL
French, art, and needlework.
Don’t think they
were uneducated.
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.
• 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
Period
Time
Event
7:00 A.M
Boy’s School Day
starts
9:00 A.M
2:00 – 5:00 P.M
They get Breakfast
Dinner Is Served!
(Triangle Dings)
Time
A.M. Homeroom
8:00 – 8:16
1
8:19 – 9:04
2
9:07 – 9:52
3
9:55 – 10:40
4
10:43 – 11:28
5
11:31 – 12:16
6
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
other modern stuff
that wasn’t invented
at that time
I don’t know what a school lookedA like!
I
replica of a
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
school street (1748-1810)
know everything!!! I’m funny
SAY
I’M FUNNY.
Aright?
typical
school
day… Ha! I
really got you.
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 
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
• heat came from a fireplace ONLY
• people thought girls should learn reading and
writing
• towns with 50 families had to have a school
That’s uneven! Did I
pay you guys to
make an uneven
chart?
• 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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•If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern (Pages 20-25)
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