READING COMPREHENSION:
A Click here and match the two halves of the sentences:
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B Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE?
1 Most schools in the Colonies charged a fee for children’s education before the 19th century.
2 Protestants favored education for political reasons.
3 The hornbook looked pretty much like modern books.
4 In 1647, a law in Massachusetts stated that secondary schools outnumber primary schools.
5 At that time, a “public school” was a school where access to education was free of charge.
6 In areas situated in the countryside, money was not the only way to pay school fees.
7 A field school was so called because it actually stood on a field.
8 A field school was mobile.
9 Beating school children was an unacceptable form of punishment in the colonies.
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