Life is easier today than it was for kids hundreds of years ago. Imagine being a
settler in America in the 1700s. Children often had to walk miles to school. Meals were
usually the same food over and over. People mainly ate what they grew in their gardens.
Many people had no indoor bathrooms, and at night people used candles to see.
What is the purpose of this passage?
to explain what school was like hundreds of years ago
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to show examples of how life used to be harder
to make readers want to read more about life long ago
