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 * Curricular Trends of the Colonial Period**

Colonial curricula first began as subjective to what the individual families within the colonies could provide for their children.
 * Curriculum for the colonial students differed based on the financial abilities of the family
 * Wealthy families would provide a live-in tutor.
 * Non-wealthy families would educate their children using their own resources.



Laws were passed in 1613 which required colonists to attend church twice a week which created a religious curriculum.
 * The church was expected to educate the children on several Christian aspects such as The Ten Commandments, The Lord's Prayer, and The Articles of Faith.
 * Ministers eventually became teachers and tutors for additional pay.
 * Orphaned children were gathered up by the colony and were instructed on religious matters.



Apprenticeship was another form of curriculum.
 *  This allowed students to learn a trade, usually the trade of the student's parents.
 * This type of curriculum was also adopted from Europe as a means of educating people for the purpose of expanding economic success.
 * Orphaned children were gathered up by the colony and were instructed on religious matters.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Private schools began in commercial colonies for the purpose of educating students using a non-agrarian curriculum.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The Harvard Curriculum included:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Logic
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Physics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Rhetoric
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">History
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Ethnic
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Politics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Geometry
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Astronomy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Literacy Studies

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In 1749, Benjamin <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> Franklin challenged prevailing beliefs about education curriculum.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21.3333px;">All students should study English through reading, writing, and orating.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Latin & Greek should be taught for those preparing to be ministers.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">French, German, and Spanish should be taught for those preparing to be merchants.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">See below for an interactive copy of __Our Colonial Classroom__, written in 1920 by C. Meriwether.

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