These students learned skills that would help them run a household, including social etiquette, needlework, spinning, weaving, cooking, and nursing.
What are female students?
100
The term applied to teachers who were hired by individual families and taught children in their own homes
What are tutors?
100
Most classes during colonial times were held in this type of schoolhouse
What is a One-room Schoolhouse?
100
Teachers were usually hired by this member of the community, and were required to substitute for him if need be.
What is the Minister?
200
These students attended school rather than learning from their mother or father at home.
What are upper class students?
200
Female teachers typically taught at this type of school.
What is a Dame School?
200
School buildings were usually provided by this community organization.
What is the Church?
200
At the very least, Teachers would teach these "Three 'R's"
What are Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic.
300
Students who learned skills like Latin, science, celestial navigation, geography, fencing, plantation management.
What are male students
300
These "teachers" taught a specific trade, such as woodworking or blacksmith skills.
What are professionals, craftsmen, or tradesmen? (any one)
300
This book was the primary text from which children learned to read, and they often copied or recited passages from it.
What is the Bible?
300
Basic knowledge of this book was considered crucial to teaching and serving as an example to students.
What is the Bible?
300
This law required that children and apprentices be taught to read.
What is The Connecticut Code of 1650?
400
The alternative to an academic education. This was an option for children from poor or lower class families
What is an apprenticeship?
400
This member of the church and community was often also a teacher.
What is a Minister?
400
These study aids consisted of a wooden panel with a handle and protective cover sheet. Students could put a page containing the alphabet or a prayer behind this cover sheet in order to study.
What is a Hornbook?
400
These served as a teacher's pay, rather than monetary compensation.
What are goods and food?
400
This law required that all towns of 50 or more families to
provide an elementary school, while towns of 100 families or more had to provide a Grammar School.