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Emma Hart Willard
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     challenging words:    prep, economics, enrolled, astronomy, successful, writing, educational, reading, public, nephew, pave, master, role, term, people, difference
     content words:    Emma Hart Willard, Hart Willard, Lydia Hart, When Emma, Berlin Academy, John Willard, Middlebury Female Seminary, New York, Governor Clinton, New York State

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Emma Hart Willard
By Jennifer Kenny 		  
1     Think about people in your family who have high school or college degrees. Do the people you know with degrees include men and women? In the past, that list would not have included females. There was a time in this nation where girls went to finishing schools at the most. A "finishing school" taught them how to become good wives. That was until Emma Hart Willard came along.
 
2     Emma Hart Willard was born on February 23, 1787 in Connecticut. Her parents were Samuel and Lydia Hart. There were seventeen children in her family. She was the second youngest in the group. Her mother was her father's second wife. When Emma was born, her family lived on a farm that was doing quite well.
 
3     Her father saw that Emma was curious and eager to learn. He urged her to learn as much as she could. With her father's support, she enrolled in the Berlin Academy in 1802.
 
4     In 1805, Emma began to teach. She set up a school in her father's house. Both boys and girls could come to her school. In 1806, she took over the Berlin Academy for a term. She kept taking classes herself. In 1807, Emma became the principal of the women's school in Middlebury, Vermont. She was quite good at her job there. This was also where she met her husband.

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