Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 8, Lesson 2: Life in New England (pp. 186-190)
I. Educating the Children
B. Puritan children were often sent away to relatives or friends to be trained in a skill.
C. Puritan children learned to read and write.
II. Puritan Family Life
B. Everyone in a Puritan family did chores.
C. Puritan families passed their land down to their sons.
D. When the plots of land owned by each family became too small to divide further, sons began to move away.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. Puritan parents raised their children strictly.
A. Almost all Puritans lived in small, wooden two-story houses.
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