These are transcriptions of my grandmother's journals and writings from different points in her life from her girlhood diaries in Kansas in the early 1900's to her later years.
Thursday, March 10, 1910
We had sewing this morning. I went to Ethel's after school awhile. Papa worked out to Uncle Ralph's. Zella played basket ball to-night. The normal class came in our room to-day.
Weather -- fair & cool.
A "normal" class or school trained teachers and gave them classroom experiences prior to them taking on their own classrooms or schools. The Kansas State Normal School in Emporia (about 45 miles from Burlingame) opened in 1865 and was the second Normal School opened west of the Mississippi. It's not clear whether this group was visiting from Emporia, or being trained less formally locally. I know that both Winnie and Zella taught school at least briefly before they married.
A "normal" class or school trained teachers and gave them classroom experiences prior to them taking on their own classrooms or schools. The Kansas State Normal School in Emporia (about 45 miles from Burlingame) opened in 1865 and was the second Normal School opened west of the Mississippi. It's not clear whether this group was visiting from Emporia, or being trained less formally locally. I know that both Winnie and Zella taught school at least briefly before they married.
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