Lifein1900sJeffa09

__Topic... Free time balanced betwen work and play__

//__**Example 1-**__// The children back then only thought about playing after all of their many numerous chores were finished including homework.

In early rural New England play was an afterthought, taking a very distant second place in adult minds to work routines and responsibilities such as.-http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=577

__//**Example 2-**//__ Children didn't get a lot of homework because there wasn't a lot of supplies provided such as books.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/index.html- Rural communities had few resources to expend on education, and there was a lack of commercially available products for schools.


 * __//Example 3-//__** School and homework always took a back seat to working on their family's farm or chores around the house.

Often the school would be open only for a few months of the year, usually when children were not needed to work at home or on the farm. -http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/index.html


 * __//Example 4-//__** On Saturdays, it was very rare to do any playing, because you would usually, depending on your family, get extra chores on this day.

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


 * //__Conclusion-__//** I can conclude that children back then were usually working quite a lot. They always were required to complete all aspects of all chores before any free time or playing was done. They also only went to school when they were not needed at their family's farm or household.