A typical day in a Gilded Age one room classroom.
Boys and girls enter the classroom single file, youngest to oldest. Girls enter first, curtsying to the teacher. Boys would bow. Hang your coat on the hook. Put your lunch pail on the shelf. You sat according to academic ability, younger kids toward the front.
Say Pledge (which did not include “under God”), a prayer, and sing a song. Teacher checks teeth and fingernails for cleanliness.
Reading – when called on you would “toe the mark” and read or recite a passage.
Privy (bathroom) break.
Arithmetic (ciphering) – using slate boards and chalk
Penmanship – usually copying maxims
Lunch (“nooning”) – one hour including recess
Grammar/Spelling
History
Privy break
Morality – read and discuss a moral story; might include elocution
Geography
http://www.heritageall.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Americas-One-Room-Schools-of-the-1890s.pdf
Sewing class in a 1900 classroom
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