Education in Colonial America

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Education in Colonial America

• What Can I Be?

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Types of Education

• Ruling Class
• Tradesmen
• Women
• Slaves

Schoolhouse
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Ruling Class

• Tutors
• Latin and Greek
• Classics
• Law
• Manners
• College

Harvard College
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Women

• Dame School
• French
• Music
• Dancing
• Painting
• Singing
• Grammar

Dame School
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Tradesman

• Apprentice
• Blacksmith
• Tanner
• Cooper
• Wigmaker
• Cobbler
• Silversmith
• Cooper

Cooper
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Slaves

• Field Laborer
• House Servant
• Indentured Servant

Storyteller
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Sources

• . Colonial America 1600-K12 Resources" Internet
  Library Media Center 19 Jun. 2003
• lthttpwww.falcon.jmu.
  edu/ramseyil/index.htmlgt

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SOURCES

• "Concerto Grosso op. 6/10." Arcangelo Corelli.
  Version Vienna Master Series. 1990.
• "An Outline of American History" From Revolution
  to Reconstruction 19 Jun. 2003
• lthttp//odur.let.rug
  .nlusa/H/1963/chl_p9.htmgt

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SOURCES

• "Really Neat Books" 19 Jun. 2003
  lthttp//www.cedu.niu.edu/blackwell/books.html
• "The Hornbook Exercise" The Pilgrims and Plymouth
  Colony1620 19 Jun. 2003
• lthttp//www.rootsweb.
  com/mosmd/horn.htmgt

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SOURCES

• "Schooling, Education, and Literacy in Colonial
  America" Gettysburg College. 19 Jun. 2003
• lthttp//alumni.ccgett
  ysburg.edi/c330558/schooling.htmlgt

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SOURCES

• "Colonial Williamsburg History Explorer" Colonial
  Williamsburg. 19 Jun. 2003
• lthttp//www.colonialw
  illiamsburg.orggt