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media type="custom" key="2863713" FITCH HOUSE: - used out houses instead of toilets - house that families lived in - cellars were used to keep food - fire pit to cook - some rooms similar to our (family room, kitchen, bathroom, 2 or 3 bedrooms, basement)

PARSONAGE BARN: - for storage of farm tools and animals

THE LITTLE HOUSE: - most common sized house - houses were rented -kids slept upstairs

KIDS LIFE: - in charge of feeding animals -played baseball,tag, hide and seek for games -baseball was played with ball that was wrapped in leather, a stick for a bat, and ran from third to second to first -did whatever parents needed before and after school -woke up at 5 a.m. to do chores

SCHOOL: -kids went 5 1/2 days a week -not mandatory -from 8-4 -90 perecent people were literate -men learned to be good at business -started at 4 ended at 17 -used slates instead of paper -paper was expensive -physical punishment -very loud -no written tests -no grades -college for men but not women -walked to school -all tests were oral -locked in closet, getting hit and whipped, tied to chairs -stronger boys often fought back to teachers -not a lot to carry to school -school master was always a male -geography was only new england -most math was done in your head -arithmatic problems were almost all word problems -acedemys were the only school that you had to pay for -younger children sat in the front -youngest didnt have desks because they worked on spelling -only one womens college -classroom was very caotic -new england had more schools than most places -

SHOE SHOP: -men got 25 cents -women got 9 cents - better tio make in summer -made 15 million pairs a year -1 dollar per pair/4-5 pairs per day -last long -get passed down generations -area to make shoes was rented -leather attached from wood nails - made by yound men (14-21) -women had better selection of shoes

FARMER -children would inherit their fathers farm when he retires

- NARATION Was life easier for kids our age in the 19th or 21st century? To start off a child's day, they would wake up every morning at 5.00A.M. to do the chores. Chores included feeding animal, churning butter, plowed the crops and helped with cooking. Then, they would walk to school. They did not have much supplies to carry to school like we do now. Children had the choice to go to school.You went to school from age 4 to 17. They went from 8A.M. to 4P.M. 5 1/2 days a week.When they arrived at the schoolhouse, which was right beside a main road, they hung their oats on pegs in the hallway. The classroom was very noisy and chaotic. The younger children sat in front and the older at in back. They wrote on slate because paper was too expensive. The subjects inluded spelling, writing, arithmetic, the geography of New England, ect. Back then, physical punishment was normal in school. Forms of punishent included getting whiped, tied to a chair ad locked in a closet. The older and more physical boys often challengd the schoolkeeper. There was no written test; all test were given orally. Also, you did not get graded in school. After finishing your school career, you could go on to college, but it costed money. Only men went to college, but there was one womens college. Life wasn't all work for chilren, they had play. We have come to the conclusion that life in the 21st century was easier because children these days do not have to do physical labor as much as before. Life for children in the present is all fun and no work.