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Elizabethan Era Outline - Education - Stages of School

I. Introduction - stages of school, then vs now a. Attention Getter: "They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing." //Douglas Yates// b. Thesis: Its kind of surprising, there were actually very different stages of school in the Elizabethan Era than there are now. c. Transition: Education then, and now, begins in the home, then they move on to actual school. II. Body a. 1st Main Point: "Petty" derives from the French word "petit", meaning little or small. i. Fact: Boys would go from ages 5 to 7 to a Petty School. (EE) ii. Fact: Boys and girls go to elementary from ages 5 to 11 (grades Kindergarden to Fifth). (Now) iii. Fact: Before children start elementary school, most of them go to pre-school, starting at age 4. (Now) iv. Transition: Okay, we've gone from Petty schools, to elementary schools. What's next? b. 2nd Main Point: Grammar schools were really about learning grammar. i. Fact: Children of a lower standing went to Grammar School from ages 7 - 14. (EE) ii. Fact: Children of richer families did not attend Grammar school, instead they had tutors that would teach them at home. (EE) iii. Fact: Boys and girls normally go to a middle school from ages 12 to 13 (grades 6 to 7). (Now) iv. Fact: After middle school kids usually go to a Jr. High from ages 14 to 15 (grades 8 to 9). (Now) v. Fact: Boys and girls learn math, science, english, history, art, and music in middle school. (Now) vi. Transition: Oh, the joys. Up next is high school;usually the best 4 years of your life. c. 3rd Main Point: No fair! Kids in this century have to go to school longer than in the Elizabethan Era. (Now) i. Fact: In high school, you go from age 16 to 18 (grades 10 to 12). ii. Fact: High school is the finishing point to schooling that is required, unless you plan to have a career. iii. Fact: High school is really all about getting you ready for the future and it allows to to take classes to see what you would like to major in in college. iv. Transition: In the Elizabethan Era, they didn't have high schools. Instead, they went straight to a university after Grammar school. d. 4th Main Point: Universities are almost the exact same now, as they were in the Elizabethan Era. i. Fact: The the most popular choices in the Elizabethan Era were Oxford and Cambridge. (EE) ii. Fact: The most popular choices are still Oxford and Cambridge. iii. Fact: The differences between unversities now and then, are we accept women into unviersties now. iv. Fact: Like we do now, people would go to a university or college until they graduated from the major of their choice. v. Fact: Back then, boys would go at the age of 15, and now we go at any age after 18, but the usual time to go is right out of high school. vi. Transition: Wow, who knew Elizabethan Era schools were so different from our schools now. III. Conclusion a. Restate Thesis: Who knew you could go to just 3 stages on school in the Elizabethan Era vs. the 5, 6, or even 7 stages of school now. b. Attention Getter Recap: I guess Douglas Yates was right, we go to school longer than the previous generations, but he was wrong about one thing, in my opinion. I know we learn more, because we are learning about the Elizabethan Era, they didn't learn about what their king or queen and done the day before.