One-Room Schoolhouse

Short excerpt from America’s Library article:

One-room Schoolhouse

Would you like to experience what going to school was like in the late 1800s? To start with, imagine everyone in school sharing only one teacher and one classroom.

I. Vocabulary words from this article:

memorize

recite

platform

typically

arithmetic

geography

stove

outhouse

century

vary

Click here for vocabulary matching exercise.

II. Pre-Reading Questions

What is a typical class room like in your school?

What do you think it would be like to study in a small one-room schoolhouse?