Common+School+Movement+BenE09

The common school movement started in the early 1800s. Most families didn't expect their children to get a great deal of education. Parents wanted their children to get a little bit of education so they could read the bible, write, and do simple calculations. School houses varied in the United States. New England had the most schools, while the south and the west had the fewest schools. The school teachers were young men, that were untrained. The students ranged from infants just out of their cradles to men enrolled in the millitia. Horace Mann

Topic: Common School Movement

Focus: Schools in the west and south

Reason for choice: to see how education in america improved

What's your point? (thesis): How one man changed education in the U.S.

What three reasons do you have that will back up your point?

DJ 1) Horace mann improving the school budgets and teacher's knowledge. 1st

DJ 2) It helped expanded children's job selection and literacy. 3rd

BOOT 3) Everyone could go to school. 2nd

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it? ( refer to south and west) DJ

He built schools to train the teachers.

He changed how schools spent their money and decreased the amount of money spent on useless material.

He made teachers more qualified to teach the youths of America.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it? (refer to s and w) DJ

It helped children in the west and south be more than just farmers.

It changed people so the U.S could have more polititions and more jobs who needed more workers.

It helped their work skills and the literacy of the workers.

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it? ( refer to s and w) BOOT

Women were allowed to go to school when they usually stayed home.

School was free paid through taxes so more kids could afford to go.

More children could make money and get descent jobs.

Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life? It created the school systems we have today. It allowed anyone to have the freedom to go to school.