Schoolbook · A 1776 town · 1680s
The New England Primer
91Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
Memorized. The alphabet and a doctrine, in the same rhyme.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
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Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
Nearly every literate child in New England had this by heart. The South put fewer children in that room. The Primer is not gentle. The first lessons are the fall, the grave, and the duty to read.
The score is for a schoolbook that tells a child the truth it believes, in words he cannot forget. It is not a claim that every household owned one.
Folio
Keep The New England Primer in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to read
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
A child learned to read on it. Reading was the work.
Household
9/10
Taught at the kitchen as well as the school, where there was a school.
Piety
10/10
The rhyme is doctrine. Conscience is not optional decoration.
Courage
9/10
The courage asked of a child is to learn it, not to cross a river.
Republic
9/10
A people who can read can hear a broadside. That is the civic part.
Temperance
9/10
No appetite in it. The warning is the point.
Truth
9/10
It says what it is. It does not pretend to be only a game.
Stewardship
9/10
Handed to children so they could read the Bible, and later the news.
Live historicallyHave a child in the house read one hard sentence until he can say it without the page.