Monday MORNING EXERCISES Topic for Discussion.-Different kinds of schools: What is the purpose of each? Primary, intermediate, grammar, high school, normal school, college, trade school, school of technology, military school, naval school, vacation school, night school. ENGLISH To commit to memory: THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS The breaking waves dashed high, On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed. And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the rolls of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear, They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white waves' foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roaredThis was their welcome home. There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; Why had they come to wither there, There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, What sought they thus afar? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they foundFreedom to worship God. -FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS. Copy the poem in the composition books. UNITED STATES HISTORY The Pilgrims: Why called Pilgrims? why they wished to settle in a new world? why they came? The voyage and the agreement in the cabin of the Mayflower. Plymouth: The landing; building houses; nursing the sick; departure of the Mayflower. Locate Leyden, Delft Haven, Plymouth in England, Cape Cod, Plymouth in New England. ARITHMETIC Oral.- of 45, 60, 75, 80 = ? 9 × 1 = ? ? 27 X 1% = ? 7 = 45? At 25 cents apiece, what will 16 cans of peaches cost? If I buy 5 bookcases at $20 apiece, and sell them at $25 apiece, what do I gain? Written.-6800012 35214% = ? % of 7308 of 6391 + 21 = = ? Make out a bill for the following: 24 lbs. at $20; 15 lbs. at 80 cents; 33 lbs. at 75 cents; 7 lbs. at 32 cents. Receipt the bill. Reduce: 6840 9120 Divide 527908 by 1194. How many bushels of potatoes at 60 cents a bushel will pay for 24 tons of coal at $6.00 a ton? Tuesday MORNING EXERCISES Topic for Discussion.-Department of education: pupil, teacher, superintendent, county superintendent, state superintendent, board of education. Duties of each? ENGLISH Commit the first three stanzas of "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers." Write, with the aid of the dictionary, definitions of the following words: dashed, stern, tossed, exiles, moored, bark, conqueror, fame. GEOGRAPHY North America.-Form: General form? (Roughly triangular.) Important indentations -locate on map: Hudson Bay, Baffin Bay, Davis Strait, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Bering Strait. Important prolongations-locate on map: Peninsulas of Nova Scotia, Florida, Yucatan, Lower California. Chief islands adjacent. Many unnamed islands at the north, Greenland, Newfoundland, The West Indies. Many islands along the western coast, Vancouver and the Aleutian islands being the most important. Oral.-% of 18, 48, 36, 30? 28 X 12 = ? 16 X 114? 15 X 1% = ? 20 X 2% = ? Mary has 35 cherries, her sister has 4% as many. How many cherries has her sister? How many have both? 12 X 2% = ? 3 X 3 = ? 4 X 2 = ? Written.-74360: 5720? 248832-9216 ? I had 1752 yards of fencing. I sold 174, then 55%, then 38%. How much had I left? 475 is of what number? % of 75636= ? Wednesday MORNING EXERCISES Topic for Discussion.-School books; why free? Who pays for them? How can they best be taken care of? Should they be covered? If so, how? Who write the school books? Who publish them? Who selects them? ENGLISH Commit the fourth, fifth, and sixth stanzas of "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers." Write, with the aid of a dictionary, definitions of the following words: silence, depths, desert, hymns, cheer, aisles, dim, anthem, soared. What is a stanza? What is the difference What is the difference between a stanza and a verse? (See dictionary.) GEOGRAPHY North America.-Size-as compared with other continents. (To be done in a rough way only.) North America stretches entirely across the north temperate zone and reaches into the arctic zone on the north and the torrid on the south. Highlands Rocky mountain, Appalachian. Lowlands-Plains-Great Central, Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast. Drainage Gulf, Atlantic, Pacific. UNITED STATES HISTORY Life of the Pilgrims; corn; fish; fur-trading; church-going; schools. The first Thanksgiving. ARITHMETIC Oral. What fraction added to % will make 34? What fraction added to 34 will make %? What fraction added to 3 will make %? What fraction added to % will make %? What fraction added to 10 will make 20? Written.-316? Multiply 19346 by 597. 711 The smaller of two numbers is 1428. Their difference is 175. What is the larger number? Topic for Discussion.-The public officers of your town: Mayor, aldermen, selectmen, justice of the peace, tax appraisers, tax collector, pound keeper, truant officer, etc. ENGLISH Commit the last four stanzas of "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers." Write, with the aid of a dictionary, definitions of the following words: hoary, pilgrim, band, wither, serenely, fiery, spoils, faith's, shrine, unstained, freedom. GEOGRAPHY North America.-Political divisions-United States and Alaska, Dominion of Canada, Mexico, Central America. Locate and bound. UNITED STATES HISTORY The charter of the Massachusetts Company. Why Governor Winthrop and his friends wished to leave England. Governor Winthrop's character; sharing the last meal; temperance; caring for the poor. The kind of people Governor Winthrop wanted in Massachusetts; who might vote; strict laws. Locate Salem, Charlestown, Boston, Cambridge, Dorchester, Watertown. ARITHMETIC Oral.-Review tables. Written: mans' full name? When born? (Sept. 25, 1793.) Where born? (Liverpool, England.) Maiden name? (Browne.) Descent? (Father, Irish; mother, Austrian and Tuscan.) How educated? (Largely by herself. She read extensively in German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.) First poems? (First volume published in 1808. Followed by translations and historical poems.) Best-known poem? (The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.) GEOGRAPHY North America.-Locate twenty large cities to be found on this continent. UNITED STATES HISTORY Roger Williams: Difference between him and other Puritans; the rights of Indians; the right to vote. The exile; the winter journey to Massasoit; the order to leave Massachusetts; settlement at Providence. Services of Williams; making the colony free ARITHMETIC Oral.-Review reading and writing of num bers. Written.-Write five problems in cancellation. Exchange papers, and work. A Week With the Sixth Grade Monday MORNING EXERCISES Topic for Discussion.-A woman in a grocery store, one morning, complained to the proprietor that the boxes of plums were not full. "Every box was full when they were placed there," the grocer replied, "but there have been a good many boys and girls in here to leave orders on their way to school, and a number of them took a plum apiece when my back was turned, so they thought I could not see. I lose a great many dollars a year by such thieving." How many pieces of candy in a pound? Supposing a hundred persons, one after another took a piece from the counter, what would the loss be to the proprietor? How many damson plums in a box? Supposing twenty boys took a plum apiece, what would the proprietor lose? Has one person any more right to steal from a storekeeper than another? Is it not just as much stealing to steal a piece of candy, as to snatch a diamond pin from the necktie of a passer-by? ENGLISH Seat Work.-"The First Snowfall." Commit the first four stanzas to memory. Recitation.-Recite the stanzas of "The First Snowfall." At what time of the day did the snow begin to fall? Why is the new-fallen snow called a "silence?" What is ermine? Why is the snow an "ermine too dear for an earl" to wear? What is meant by Carrara? What color is Carrara marble? Who is Chanticleer? Why is his crow muffled? THE FIRST SNOWFALL The snow had begun in the gloaming, Had been heaping field and highway Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree From sheds new-roofed with Carrara I stood and watched by the window I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn Up spoke our little Mabel, Saying, "Father, who makes it snow?" Who cares for us here below. Again I looked at the snowfall, And thought of the leaden sky I remembered the gradual patience Again to the child I whispered, Alone can make it fall!" Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her, -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. GEOGRAPHY South America.-Location? Largely in what zone? Place a ruler along the western coast of South America, on the map; what part of ern coast of North America). How does the coast line of South America compare with that of North America? A large portion of South America is a great lowland. By what three large rivers and their tributaries is this lowland drained? What is a lowland? What are the three highlands of South America? (The Guiana and Brazilian Highlands on the east, and the Cordillera or Andes Mountains on the west.) How far does the Cordillera extend? UNITED STATES HISTORY Revolutionary War.-Causes of the Revolution: Burke in his speech on "Conciliation" gives six causes-(1), Descent, from English, always lovers of liberty; (2), Form of government in the colonies-they had been making their own laws and objected to interference; (3), Religion-in the northern colonies Protestants, averse to submitting to any opinion unless it agreed with their own views; (4), Slavery in the southern colonies-as a consequence the free people valued their own liberty; (5), Education-most people could read and write; they knew their rights and could not be deceived; (6), Remoteness-3,000 miles from England, and months passed before commands from the mother country could be enforced. ENGLISH Seat Work.-Commit stanzas four to eight of "The First Snowfall." Recitation.-Recite the first eight stanzas of "The First Snowfall." What and where is Auburn? What did the robins do for the babes in the wood? Who is the All-Father? Why does Lowell speak of God as the AllFather? Why is the sky called leaden? When is the sky leaden? GEOGRAPHY South America.—Wet and dry seasons, over the greater part of South America. What is meant by wet and dry seasons? How does South America differ in this respect from most of North America? heavy rainfall, due to easterly trade winds. The Atlantic slope of South America has When the winds approach the Pacific coast they are no longer moist. The land over which they blow are dry (the Desert of Atacama). prevail and the Pacific slope is well watered, South of the La Plata River westerly winds while the eastern slope is dry. Shape of South America? (Triangular.) Coast line regular except in the south and southwest, where it is bordered by islands and indented by fiords. Few harbors,-principal ones at Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Guayaquil, and the mouth of the La Plata. UNITED STATES HISTORY (1) Revolutionary War. Other causes: England thought that her colonies should make her rich. (2) England wished to govern her colonies as she pleased. (3) The colonies objected to this wish. (4) The results of the objected to this wish. French and Indian war-(a) because the French being driven from America the colonies no longer needed protection against a foreign enemy; (b) to pay the expenses of the French and Indian war England began to levy taxes on the colonies; (c) the officers in the Revolution had gained experience in the French and Indian war. Oral. ARITHMETIC 1. What is the difference in weight between an ounce of silver and an ounce of salt? 2. What per cent of your school day is one hour? 3. What per cent of your school year is one week? 4. If you had $1.25 and spent 25 per cent of it, how much would you have left? 5. At 8 cents a foot, what will it cost to build a fence around a field 50 feet by 25 feet? Written. Have each pupil get from a classmate his exact age in years, months and days, and then find the date of his birth. Repeat with other pupils, under the oversight of the teacher, until each pupil has found the date of birth of five others. Wednesday MORNING EXERCISES Topic for Discussion.-A boy stopping at a hotel with his father was told that he could have no more candy. He bought a box in the hotel, and told the seller to have the amount it cost added to his father's bill. Was it dishonest for him to get the candy, when his own father had to pay for it? Is it dishonest to take small sums of money from your mother's purse? Is it dishonest to keep all or part of the change, after you have made a purchase for your mother at a shop or market? Is it dishonest to spend the money given you to carry to church or Sunday-school for candy or gum? ENGLISH Seat Work.-Commit to memory the rest of "The First Snowfall." Recitation.-Biography of James Russell Lowell. Outline: Born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 22, 1819. Son of a Boston clergyman. Was graduated from Harvard in 1838, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840; he never practised. "Vision of Sir Launfal," with other poems, was published in 1848. His reputation was established on the publication of "A Fable for Critics" and "The Bigelow Papers." Succeeded Longfellow as professor of modern languages at Harvard in 1855. Between 1857 and 1873 he engaged in magazine work, and published the "Fireside Travels," "Among My Books," "My Study Windows," and the "Commemoration Ode." Minister to Spain in 1877 and to England in 1880. Died in Cambridge, Aug. 12, 1891. He had lost his first child, eighteen months old, in March, 1847. GEOGRAPHY (South South America. How does South America compare in size with North America? America 7,000,000 square miles, North America 8,000,000 square miles.) What waters border South America? (Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Magellan, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Guayaquil, Gulf of Panama, Gulf of Darien.) Three important rivers? The Amazon, while shorter than the Mississippi and the Nile, is wider and deeper than either, and has far greater navigable surface. The Amazon Valley is largely a tropical jungle, called the Selvas. It contains the densest vegetation on the globe. The Plata flows thru the region called the Pampas. (The Pampas is a treeless plain.) Orinoco River is navigable for a thousand miles. The name means "Serpent.' It drains the region known as the Llanos, where many cattle are raised. UNITED STATES HISTORY The Revolutionary War.-The Stamp Act, 1765. Why passed? (England believed the colonies should pay for their own protection.) Who passed the Act? (Parliament.) What is Parliament? To what does it correspond in our the provisions of the Act? (That bills, notes, marriage certificates, legal documents, newspapers, almanacs, etc., should have stamps attached.) Is there anything in this country that has to be stamped? (Cigars, etc.) ARITHMETIC Oral. 1. In a school there are 500 pupils. One hundred have been quarantined from exposure to a contagious disease. What per cent are present? 2. Seventy-five per cent of the seating capacity of a classroom is 36. What is the seating capacity of the room? 3. I bought an automobile for $4,500 and sold it for $4,000. What per cent did I lose? Written. 1. Just how long ago did Columbus discover America? Find the difference in time between the battle of Bunker Hill and the surrender of Cornwallis. 3. What per cent of 2 bushels is 2 quarts? 4. I bought apples at $3.25 a barrel, and sold them for $4.50 a barrel. What was the per cent of gain? 5. Multiply 3 rds. 5 yds. 2 ft. 9 ins. by 8. Thursday MORNING EXERCISES Topic for Discussion.-Measuring with the eye: How high is the top of the teacher's desk from the floor? How high is the schoolroom ceiling from the floor? How many inches long is your foot? Your hand? Your forefinger? How many inches long is an unsharpened lead pencil? How long is the hair of the girl nearest you? etc. ENGLISH Seat Work. Select the words describing the snowfall. Recitation. Which part of the poem does each child like best, and why? Have the answer to the question written out, then discuss the various passages and reasons, in the class. GEOGRAPHY Argentina. Latitude? Longitude? How bordered on the east? on the west? on the north? on the south? Size? (Twenty times as large as New York State.) Zone? Mountain systems? The country is largely a great plain, the southern portion of which is practically uninhabited. Rivers? (Parana and La Plata, fine, navigable rivers.) Climate? Mostly in temperate zone. Industries? Cattle-raising, beef and leather. Next to Australia most important wool-producing country in the world. Farming-wheat is most important product. Manufacturing-considerable in the larger cities. Commerce? More railroads than in any other country of South America. Exports— wool, hides, wheat. Imports-cloth, ma |