Schoolbook · A 1776 town · 1680s
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The New England Primer
91Living historically.
Memorized. The alphabet and a doctrine, in the same rhyme.
The review
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.
Journal
Keep The New England Primer in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 91. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
A child learned to read on it. Reading was the work.
- 9Household
Taught at the kitchen as well as the school, where there was a school.
- 10Piety
The rhyme is doctrine. Conscience is not optional decoration.
- 9Courage
The courage asked of a child is to learn it, not to cross a river.
- 9Republic
A people who can read can hear a broadside. That is the civic part.
- 9Temperance
No appetite in it. The warning is the point.
- 9Truth
It says what it is. It does not pretend to be only a game.
- 9Stewardship
Handed to children so they could read the Bible, and later the news.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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