Content+Studied+in+the+Colonial+Period


 * Content Studied in the Colonial Period **

 household.Boys, however, often studied more advanced mathematics if they were  planning to attend college. || [|Colonial Arithmetic] ||  children were apprentices to master craftsmen and tradesmen. For example,  Benjamin Franklin was an apprentice to his brother who was a printer. || [|Printmaking Lessons] ||  boys from wealthy families. || [|Create a Quadrant] ||  children copied passages directly from the Bible or from books like the  //Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in//  //Company and Conversations.// ||  ||  used in public as well as in Sunday school. There were sections of the book intended for  younger students and sections intended for older students. It included the alphabet and passages  intended to indoctrinate students in the stern religious beliefs of the time. ||  ||  their spelling. They may have also practiced their spelling words out loud. In 1783,  Noah Webster published the //Blue-Backed Speller.// ||  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> schools. The hornbook was one of the first tools used to teach reading. This consisted <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> of a wooden paddle which had a lesson attached that was covered by a piece of transparent horn. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> The lesson contained any combination of the alphabet, vowel and consonant combinations, <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> the Lord’s Prayer, a praise of the Trinity, and a form of a cross. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|All About Hornbooks] || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> science, geography, history, fencing, social etiquette, and plantation management <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> in the South. Young ladies may have also studied art, music, French, social etiquette, <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;"> needlework, spinning, weaving, cooking, and nursing. ||  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">//**Subject**// || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">**//Information//** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">//**Link**// ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Arithmetic** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Both boys and girls learned enough about simple math in order to manage the
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Art and careers** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">In the middle colonies, a practical education was emphasized. Therefore, many
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Navigation** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Celestial navigation, navigating ships by using the stars, was often studied by
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Penmanship and character education** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">In order to practice their handwriting as well as to learn moral lessons, colonial
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Phonics** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">The New England Primer was the standard reader used in Colonial America. It was often
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Spelling** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Colonial students likely copied words over and over many times in order to practice
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**The alphabet and poetry** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Reading, writing, spelling, and religion was the focus for most colonial
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Other subjects** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Young men planning to attend college may have also studied Greek, Latin,