Think of the type of internship that you had. If you lived in the late 1700's in colonial America, how would this career exist? What would this job be like? Who would have it? What technology would he or she us? Where (geographically) would this job or career exist?
The Internship that I had was being a semi teacher for the grades kinder, and first. If I were to have lived in the late 1700's I wouldn't have been able to get the same internship as now. There were no so called "teachers" to teach the students everything they had to learn. They learned everything at home with their parents or even wealthy families had a tutor that taught each child. "Even in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania in 1774, there were still few schools. Many parents taught their children to read and write at home using a bible and a hornbook. A hornbook was a wooden board with a handle. A lesson sheet of the ABCs in small and capital letters, some series of syllables and often, the Lord's Prayer, was attached to the board and was protected by a thin layer of cow's horn. Some hornbooks of wealthy families were very fancy, decorated with jewels and leather and included ivory pointers. Most of them were plain and had a string around the handle to be worn around the neck" " People who wrote the early primers and readers used pictures of animals learning to read and write to show that reading and writing were natural and fairly easy processes! By the 1750s, literacy rates (percentage of people who could basically read and write) were the highest in the New England colonies, at about 75% for males and 65% for females. The literacy rates, however, were lower in the the Middle and Southern colonies" This was information that I found regarding education in the mid 1700's.
Reference; http://www.chesapeake.edu
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