American_History

American History Schools in the 1770’s Schools back in the 1770’s were very different, Massachusetts and Connecticut both had laws saying every town with fifty families or more in the town must hire a teacher and build a schoolhouse. Most schools in the 1770’s had only one room; witch was freezing cold in the winter. Some towns are considered very lucky to have a schoolhouse because most towns don’t have any! The teacher of the schoolhouse actually held classes in her home. The puritans thought paper was way too much to waste on the students. They wrote on birch bark for their lessons they worked on. There were no chalkboards, globes, or maps for the children to use. The puritans believed that everyone should be able to read the bible. When the children are not working at home, they had to go to school. In school they are taught to read, write, and do arithmetic witch is practically like math. They need to learn all of this stuff above so then they could school, one, schools, schoolhouse, read, puritans, children, write, witch, watchman, very, towns, town, teacher, pole, meetinghouse, home, girls, end, dame, cold, boys, birch, bible, arithmetic, young, years, wrote, worship, working, worked, work, winter, way, watched, waste