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ELIZABETHAN ERA VS. MODERN DAY

CITY LIFE IN THE ELIZABETHAN ERA

CITY LIFE IN MODERN DAY ENGLAND (continued...)

Common Jobs:

Blacksmiths- Make weapons

Carpenter- Build houses and castles

Physician- Doctors

Herbalists- Grow medical plants

Merchants- Solid goods

Religion:

• Sunday's are now just like any other day.
• Today, there is a decrease in the amount of Christianity in England.

Clothing:

• At school, most of the children wear uniforms
• Fashion is really important to the younger kids and most love to shop for the latest fashion.
• Popular stores: Topshop, Oasis, Kookai, Warehouse, and Miss Sixty.
• Popular footware are, Nike, Addidas Trainers, to Wingtips.

Education:

• Boys attended school while girls were taught at home
• Noble children have private tutors

Wingtips

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COUNTRY LIFE IN ELIZABETHAN ERA

Education:

• Many were illiterate.
• Girls helped out around the house
• Boys were taught how to do their father's jobs

COUNTRY LIFE IN THE ELIZABETHAN ERA (continued...)

Jobs:

Laborers: Grew crops

Hunters: Hunted animals

Tailors: Use sheep and wool to make warm clothes

Housing:

• Usually houses were as big as a town house or about the size of a barn.
• Wasn't a lot of privacy in the houses, many had few rooms
• Most homes had fireplaces and chimneys built in
• Windows were made out of wood shutters

Essential Question: How do these ways of life relate to what we see in Hamlet? Any similarities or differences?

Money:

• Used shillings and pennies

Clothing:

• Made clothes out of sheepskin and wool, as well as linen. Mostly dull colors.

Food:

• Mostly ate grain, dairy, and a few meat products.

CITY LIFE IN THE ELIZABETHAN ERA (continued...)

Money:

Used "pounds" in form of dollars. EX. One pound= about $400 in US today.

Elizabethan Era

Clothing:

Mostly simple clothing such as velvet and lace, as well as brightly colored.

Essential Question: How do city life and country life in the Elizabethan Era compare to life today?

Food:

Ate many types of meat, fruit, veggies, fish, and wine.

COUNTRY LIFE IN MODERN DAY ENGLAND

By: Smith Hinton, Logan Kendall, Catherine Harman, David Baron, and Carl Gilmore

Education:

• Everyone in England is now offered the same amount of public school education, no matter what gender you are or where you live

CITY LIFE IN MODERN DAY ENGLAND

Education:

• Education is free from all ages 5 through 16.
• 94% of England and the rest of the UK attend free public schools, while only 6% attend private or homeschooling.
• The school year is divided into six terms and is 39 weeks long.

Housing:

• Housing is still simple but has improved a lot
• More room for privacy
• Still barn like houses that correlate with the jobs

Clothing:

• Everyone in England offered the same clothes.
• The residents in the rural area just travel to the city if there are things that are needed.

Semi- Dettached

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Housing:

• About two thirds of the residents in Britain either own, or are in the process of buying a home.
• The main types of houses in England are: Detached(a house not joined to another), Semi-attached(two houses joined together), Terrace(several houses joined together), and Flats(apartments).