Old+Sturbridge+Village+AMS08

= School. =

"Here they learned the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, and sometimes went on to geography, history, and English composition." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146
 * Example 1: Children learned the basic subjects.**

"Our district school was taught by a man in the winter and a young lady in the summer, this we attended while it kept, some six or eight months in the year, in the intervals it was not unusual for some young lady to set up a private school, at a charge of a New York or Yankee shilling per week for tuition; these too we attended until we reached an age when our services were needed in housework or on the farm." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987
 * Example 2: Male and Female teachers.**

"Having five sons beside the youngest, who died in infancy, the farm was carried on under his oversight by a hired man with the aid of the boys, during the summer, the boys taking care of the stock and doing the chores, and going to school during the winter" http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987
 * Example 3: Boys went to school during the winter.**

"Most of them attended one-room district schools within walking distance of their homes." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146
 * Example 4: Schools were not far from childrens homes.**

"School was held for ten or twelve weeks in the winter months, usually beginning after Thanksgiving. For young children, whose work was not needed at home, there was also an eight-week term in the summer. Some children went to school nearly every day it was in session; others attended only when their parents did not need them at home." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146
 * Example 5: A school year for a 19th Century child.**

Schooling in the 19th Century and the 21st Century are similar in some ways and are also very different in others. In school for kids in the 19th Century they learned reading, writing, arithmetic and sometimes learned geography, history and English composition. Schooling in the 21st Century, we have the subjects of mathemtics, science, history/ geography, English/ Language Arts. We also have male and female teachers for any subject. With our schooling, in the 21st Century, we go to school for 10 months, both boys and girls. We have a couple of days/weeks of little vacations like Christmas break and Thanksgiving break. The average time it takes a child to get to school by car would have to be like 20 minutes. If you are a part of the town then you should go to the nearest school into which isn't very far. Now and days for children school comes first instead of chores. Basically I would rather live in the 21st Century for school so I can get a better job when I am older instead of stoping at 8th grade to work on the farm when I can have a more complex, paying job.
 * Conclusion:**

=CHORES.= Girls chores consisted of cooking, cleaning, sewing, and washing. Girls worked with their mothers to learn how to do all these chores. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=930
 * Example 1: Girls chores.**

"During the course of his six-months time, Shapley ploughed, harrowed, tilled, hayed, mowed, ditched, picked stones, spread manure, built fences, tended cattle; in short, his work encompassed the whole range of farm chores." Boys labored with their fathers and brothers. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=930
 * Example 2: Boy chores.**

Usually the children started off with easier chores at ages 6 and 7 like shelling corn or weeding the garden and as they grew older there chores became harder. http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=577
 * Example 3: Simple chores.**

"By seventeen or so, most sons and daughters were doing full adult's work." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=2037
 * Example 4: Children doing "adult work"**

Chores in the 19th Century and in the 21st Century are very different. In the 19th Century children had to do farm work and not many people in the 21st Century have farms to work on. Usually kids have chores that they have to do at their house like make their bed, clean the dishes, clean your room, or take the trash out, but in the 19th Century the chores were more complex and took mostly the whole day for a child to do.And they had to get most of their chores done because some of the chores they did reflected on how they are living, for example some kids had to go and take care of their cattle because they might sell it for money or eat if for food. I would stay living in the 21st Century because I don't have as many responsibilities as I would in the 19th Century.
 * Conclusion:**