History of Public Schools

Education during the Colonial Time was deeply rooted in ___________.

• Technology

• Farming

• Religion

• Community

What is NOT a subject taught during the colonial times in school?

• Reading

• Writing

• Basic Math

• History

Kids from ________ parents were taught Latin, Greek, and Advanced Math.

• working

• wealthy

• poor

• royal

Girls learned ________ and basic house skills.

• dancing

• book making

• sewing

• gardening

What kind of book did they use in colonial schools?

• chapter books

• large print books

• No books

• hornbooks

During the colonial times, Teachers could not

drink, smoke, date or ___________.

• drive cars

• marry

• dance

• walk outside

The Old Deluder Satan Law of 1647 required that: every town of _____households must hire and pay a teacher of reading and writing so people were able to read the bible.

• 50

• 100

• 10

• 5

Dame-school was a school where the basics of reading, writing, and math were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home. This was the start of early ______.

• college

• afterschool programs

• babysitting

• daycare

The _________ Law of 1647 required that: every town of fifty households must hire and pay a teacher of reading and writing so people were able to read the bible.

• Schoolhouse

• Old School

• Old Deluder Satan

• Public School

______-school was a school where the basics of reading, writing, and math were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.

• Lady

• Teacher

• Public

• Dame