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Excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Babcock Leonard
Teacher Certificate
Grammar School Class
Frontispiece: Phillis Wheatley from "Poems on various subjects"
Frontispiece "The Young Reader; To Go With The Spelling Book"
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
One Room School in Wapping
Prospect Hill School
"Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
"New England Primer"
"A System of School Geography"
"Greenfield High School for Young Ladies"
"The North American Arithmetic. Part First for Young Learners"
Excerpts from the Diary of Ellen Louisa Arms (Sheldon)
Large Village Center School
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Town Hall and School
One Room School in Wapping
Mill River School Group
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Summary and Objective
The students will be examining photographs, journals, diary and artifacts to learn about early schools. The students will discover that there are many similarities and differences in the schools during the 19th Century and the schools of Today. Later, they will share their findings with the class.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Pre-Lesson Activity: The students will be examining photographs, journals, diaries and artifacts to learn about early schools. The students will discover that there are many similarities and differences in the schools during the 19th Century and the schools of Today. The teacher will show the students how to examine photographs, schoolbooks, a diaries, and artifacts on the American Centuries website. The teacher will also help the children look at their own books, journals, writing implements, and classroom photographs.
Step 2.
The students will be divided into small groups to examine photographs, schoolbooks, pg 18 of Phyllis Wheatly’s "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”, and artifacts to learn about early schools in Massachusetts via various artifacts and the American Centuries website. This experience will provide the students with a 1st hand exposure to understand how early schools were different from schools of today. They will share their findings with the class.
Step 3.
Students will compare and contrast how schools were funded, teachers training, students age requirements, types of curriculum taught to students, pupil to teacher ratio, and length of school year during the 19th century compared to those of today.
Step 4.
Students will look at a few pictures of schools during the 19th century and schools of today and describe the similarities and the differences they identify.
Step 5.
The teacher and students will create a chart comparing the physical building structure of schools during the 19th Century with schools of today.
Step 6.
The student will be asked to identify yesteryears (books, classroom photographs, inkwell) through artifacts and photos and its materials comparable to today. (i.e a journal to a diary.) This information has to be identified as having similarities or having differences. If necessary, the teacher will translate the written materials for the students. The information will be placed on Venn Diagram
Step 7.
Students will use PowerPoint and set up a presentation so that they can do a side by side, using "guides" which will allow them to divide their slides in half. The students will copy and paste pictures from the digital collection as well as our website/digital camera collection to illustrate the difference and similarities of the different time periods.
Step 8.
Culminating Activity: The students will present their PowerPoint slides to the class explaining the similarities and differences they discovered in the school of the 19th century versus the schools of today.
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