Children's Nonfiction Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
Early Schools
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1991
- Category
- Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, School & Education, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780865050143
- Publish Date
- Mar 1991
- List Price
- $10.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780865050150
- Publish Date
- Mar 1991
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 8 to 9
- Grade: 3 to 4
Description
Topics covered; A community decided to build its first school An old schoolhouse inside and out Chores the students had to do Transportation to and from the school School supplies A day at a one-room school Learning the alphabet Learning to read - samples from old readers, word games The spelling craze Arithmetic puzzlers Other subjects, such as geography, agriculture, natural science, music and art The first teachers - Ministers, itinerant teachers, educated women Stories about teachers Rules for teachers, rules for students Hiring women as teachers Being late and being truant Punishment Moral lessons taught in school Boarding schools, finishing schools Ragged, industrial, trade, and domestic science schools Changing attitudes to education
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