張祖平

Would you like to experience what going to school was like in the late 1800s？ To start with， imagine everyone in school sharing only one teacher and one classroom.

In the 19th and early 20th cen-turies， most American students attended a oneroom schoolhouse. A single teacher would typically have students in the first through eighth grades， and she taught them all.

The number of students varied1 from six to 40 or more. The youngest children sat in the front， while the oldest students sat in the back. The teacher usually taught reading， writing， arithmetic2， history， and geography. Students memorized and recited their lessons.

The classroom of a one-room schoolhouse probably looked much like your own. The teachers desk may have been on a raised platform at the front of the room， however， and there would have been a wood-burning stove3 since there was no other source of heat. The bathroom would have been outside in an outhouse.

In Honeoye Falls， New York， there is a one-room schoolhouse where kids today can experi-ence what it was like to be students in the late 19th century.

For a week during the summer， they wear 19th century clothes and learn the way children learned more than a hundred years ago.

你想體驗(yàn)一下19世紀(jì)末期的學(xué)校是什么樣的嗎？先想象一下學(xué)校里的所有學(xué)生都只有同一個(gè)老師和教室的場面吧。

在19世紀(jì)和20世紀(jì)早期，大部分美國學(xué)生去的是單房學(xué)校。僅有的一名教師通常要教一到八年級(jí)的所有的學(xué)生。

學(xué)生的數(shù)量從6人到40人不等，或者更多。年齡最小的孩子坐在前面，最大的坐在后面。教師通常教閱讀、寫作、算數(shù)、歷史和地理。學(xué)生記、背他們的課程。

“單房學(xué)?！钡慕淌铱赡芎湍銈兊慕淌液芟嗨?。教師的講臺(tái)位于教室前面一個(gè)高起的平臺(tái)上。不過，教室里可能會(huì)有一個(gè)燒木材的爐子，因?yàn)闆]有別的取暖源。廁所則在外屋。

在紐約州的哈尼奧伊·福爾斯有個(gè)“單房學(xué)?！?，孩子們可以在那兒體驗(yàn)19世紀(jì)末的學(xué)校是什么樣的。

在夏季的一周中，孩子們身穿19世紀(jì)的衣服，用100多年前孩子們學(xué)習(xí)的方式學(xué)習(xí)。endprint