One Room School by Raymond Bial
This informational picture book discusses the one-room schoolhouse which was the mainstay of American education for 250 years. Bial begins with the earliest one-room schools which were founded during the Colonial times and continues his discussions until the 1950s when one-room school houses were done away with in favor of regional consolidation. Bial includes quotes from what people who attended one-room schoolhouses in order to give a first-hand account of what it was like to attend one of these schools.
I enjoyed the pictures in this book and it really gives the reader a view of what a one-room schoolhouse was like. Students can compare their experiences at school with what it was like for children of previous generations.
South Carolina State Standard for Social Studies
Standard 4-5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the westward movement and its impact on the institution of slavery.
Indicator 4-5.6 Compare the experiences of different groups who migrated and settled in the West,
including their reasons for migrating, their experiences on the trails and at their destinations, the cooperation and conflict between and among the different groups, and the nature of their daily lives.
I would have my students use a T-Chart to compare their present day school experiences with the one room schoolhouse of the past.
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