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RECORDED CLASSES CD 2 – 444 instructions 444 INSTRUCTIONS: Students chorus along with the teacher. A recording pronounces each phrase four times. The recording says phrases eight more times. Students copy or trace the printed phrases. In 12 seconds students listen twelve times. Students speak the phrase twelve times. They orally chorus the phrase four times. They internally speak the phrase eight times. Students learn sounds of letters and words.

INDEX 1. 444 Instructions 444 2. Colonial Society 1 333 3. Colonial Society 2 333 4. Colonial Society 3 333 5. Colonial Society 5 333 READ ALONG STORIES Read along to learn. Use with students of any age. Use with students of any nationality. Listen to stories. Follow along with the print. Match the sound with the print.

COLONIAL SOCIETY 1 Meaning Clusters Any colonist could find a new home on the frontier. This reality deterred the emergence of a ruling class. If the actions of a powerful figure in a colony displeased people, they could leave. This forced leaders to liberalize political policies, land-grant requirements and religious practices. The foundations of higher education emerged during the colonial period. In 1636, Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Near the end of the century, the College of William and Mary was established in Virginia. A few years later, the Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered. It later became Yale College.

MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS ___colonist__________________________ ___________________________________ _____________deterred_______________ ___________________________________ ____________powerful________________ ___________________________________ _____________liberalize______________ ___________________________________ __________higher education___________ ___________________________________ __________Harvard__________________ ___________________________________ ___________William and Mary________ ___________________________________ __________Collegiate School__________ ___________________________________ ________________Yale_______________ Source US State Department Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

COLONIAL SOCIETY 2 Meaning Clusters The Puritan emphasis on reading directly from the Scriptures promoted literacy. In 1647, the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted the “ye olde deluder Satan” Act. It required every town with more than 50 families to establish a grammar school. At the time that meant a Latin school that prepared students for college. All the New England colonies, except Rhode Island, enacted similar laws. The first immigrants in New England brought personal libraries. They continued to import books from London. As early as 1680, Boston booksellers sold works of classical literature, history, politics, philosophy, science, theology and belles-lettres. In 1639, Harvard college installed the first printing press in the English colonies.

MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS Puritan_____________________________ ___________________________________ ________________enacted_____________ ___________________________________ ____________town________________ ___________________________________ ____________Latin___________________ ___________________________________ ___________________Rhode Island_____ ___________________________________ __________immigrants_______________ ___________________________________ _____________import________________ ___________________________________ _____________booksellers_____________ ___________________________________ _______Harvard_____________________ ___________________________________ Source US State Department Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

COLONIAL SOCIETY 3 Meaning Clusters The first school in Pennsylvania began in 1683. It taught reading, writing and accounting. Thereafter, every Quaker community provided their children with elementary teaching. The Friends Public School offered advanced training in classical languages, history and literature. It still operates in Philadelphia as the William Penn Charter School. Parents who could afford tuition were required to pay it. The school was free to the poor. In Philadelphia, numerous private schools with no religious affiliation taught languages, mathematics and natural science. Night schools were available for adults. The educational opportunities for women were limited to activities performed in the home. Private teachers instructed the daughters of wealthy Philadelphians in French, music, dancing, painting, singing, grammar and sometimes bookkeeping.

MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS _________school_____________________ ___________________________________ ____________reading_________________ ___________________________________ _______Quaker______________________ ___________________________________ _______________classical_____________ ___________________________________ ____________Philadelphia____________ ___________________________________ ___________tuition___________________ ___________________________________ ________________private_____________ ___________________________________ Night schools_______________________ ___________________________________ _______________women______________ ___________________________________ __________instructed_________________ ___________________________________ Source US State Department Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

COLONIAL SOCIETY 5 Meaning Clusters In the Southern colonies, the upper class was uninterested in supporting public education. Wealthy planters and merchants imported private tutors from Ireland or Scotland to teach their children. Others sent their children to boarding school in England. The population density of farms and plantations in the south made community schools impractical. A few free schools were endowed in Virginia. The Syms School was founded in 1647. The Eaton School was founded in 1659. On the frontier, the Scots-Irish, were firm devotees of scholarship. They made great efforts to attract learned ministers to their settlements.

MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS _______________upper class___________ ___________________________________ ________________imported___________ ___________________________________ ___________children_________________ ___________________________________ _______________density______________ ___________________________________ _______________free_________________ ___________________________________ The Syms School____________________ ___________________________________ The Eaton School____________________ ___________________________________ __________Scots-Irish________________ ___________________________________ _____________attract________________ Source US State Department Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005