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LIFE IN THE 19 TH CENTUR   Y

__ SCHOOL

Example One -__ Men and women both taught schools. //"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

__ Examle Two __- Boys went to school in the winter. //"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 Three -__ Sometimes used rulers as disciplinary tools. //"He possessed the longest, widest, and thickest ruler I ever saw."// [|//http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146////]

__ Example Four //-//__ Students learn the basic school skills//. "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//

__ Work Example One -__ People usauly did work around thier own land //"My father, owning but few acres of land, worked much of the time stoning* wells and cellars, and consequently was with his family but little."// http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=68//

__ Example Two -__ Some Boys' 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."// http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=930

__ Example Three -__ Some Girls' chores. //"No doubt she felt some awkwardness in this transition in her life for it was a family she was long-accustomed to visiting; now she was being paid to assist her friends with general household chores such as cooking, cleaning, washing, and sewing."// http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=930

__ Example Four -__ Some farm chores. //"On Saturday afternoons, no school, afterwards changed to the whole or every alternate Saturday, and beside our usual chores night and morning, on these Saturdays we must accomplish a portion of work before we could play, shelling so many bushels of corn or cutting, splitting or carrying in to the house an allotted quantity of wood in the winter, hoeing an allotted portion of the garden or other similar work in the summer."// http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987