Education And Leisure

Question 1

What did the poor people do for Education

Answer 1

No formal education, learnt off their families, working on land or in the home.

They needed to bring in a wage for the family

Question 2

What did the well off children do for education

Answer 2

Boys - Petty schools age 4-8 - learn to read and write
Then Grammar school age 8-14 (Latin, Greek, history archery)

Girls -Dame schools or education at home by mothers, learn reading writing dancing ect

Question 3

What did nobel children do for education

Answer 3

Boys - private tutor until early teens

University from 14 or 15
Some went to Inns of court to train as a lawyer

Girls - private tutoe until early teens, then sent to another nobel household to complete their education

Make useful social contacts amd perfected the skills expected of them a a nobel women

Question 4

What did sport depend on

Answer 4

Social position

Question 5

What sports did the Nobility play

Answer 5

Hunting, hawking fishing, fencing

Question 6

What sports did the working people play

Answer 6

Sports like football, could be very violent with no rules

Question 7

What else was very popular in Elizabethan England

Answer 7

Going to the theatre was very popular with all classes.

Protestantism led to the development of new plays as many thought that the centuries old plays were too carholic