Saturday, May 24, 2014

One Room School House and Town Meeting 1947!

Third graders viewed this Vermont Historical Society 
video clip filmed in Pittsford, Vermont in 1947 titled 
"A Town Solves A Problem."

 "Scripted film of a 1947 small town meeting in Pittsford, Vermont, 
produced by the US Army to advance democracy post-war occupied 
countries. Winter scenes, one-room school house, rural living, snow 
shoveling, gas station, balloting."  

This very nicely supports our discussion of Cornwall's 
one room school houses and preps students for "Old School"
where students will take turns attending a simulated "Old School" 
within the third grade classroom.  Students also related their
"mock town meeting" to the town meeting events in the film.

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