Week One Blog - The Common School
Week One Blog This week, we learned about something called the Common School Era . That means the time in history when people in America started to believe that every kid should be able to go to school. Before this time, only rich kids or boys got to learn. But leaders like Horace Mann wanted to change that. He believed school was super important not just to learn reading and math, but to help kids grow up to be good people and help the country. In our group, we each picked a word, a phrase, and a sentence from the reading that we thought showed what this time in history was really about. Then we talked about our choices and decided which ones were the best to show the meaning of the Common School Era. The Word: Equality My classmate Ineesha chose the word “equality” because people during this time believed that school could help make things fairer. Horace Mann thought that if all kids went to school, rich or poor, then everyone could have the same chances in life. But even thou...