Life+in+the+19th+CenturySJL09

EQ: Is life better now or then?

Figure out whether your life is "better" than someone living in the early 19th century using the [|data base] of 19th Century (1900-1899) primary and secondary source documents from Old Sturbridge Village. In class we will discuss what "better" means. Hmmmmm....you must utilize at least two primary and two secondary sources.

General guidelines:

Pick two topics that you will research. Find four things from the 19th Century about each topic. Find a primary source example for each. Compare and contrast them with the 21st Century Come to a conclusion on whether life was better in the 19th Century or the 21st Century

= Topic: Health =


 * They have "sick rooms" where they take care of the ill and we have hospitals and doctors offices.**

[|**http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=644****]


 * Women in the 19th century would take care of the sick and today, both men and women are nurses and doctors.**

[|**http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=644**]


 * Instead of medicine and pills, they used tea and herbs to cure the ill.**

http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=644


 * When we get sick, we take some medicine and go on our way but then, they would stay in bed until they got better, if they did.**

http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=644**


 * __Conclusion__**
 * Health care is better now because we have more resources and have better chances to save peoples lives with all of our tools and medicines. Back then they did not have the technology or knolege to do the work we do today.**

= Topic: School =


 * They would use physical dicipline and we use verbal.**


 * They would not get alot of homework because they had work to do at home but we get a fair mout of homework depending on the teacher and what we are doing.**


 * They would bring their lunches in buckets as we use either brown bags or lunchboxes.**


 * They toke oral tests and would stand up in front of the class and state answers but we only take tests after we finish chapter or section in a subject. They took tests very often.**

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/index.html

School is better now because the work is easier. Even though we get more homework, that also means we get more practice at what we do.**
 * __Conclusion__