3O4 METHODS IN TEACHING 



follow. By this means there is gained an introductory 

 knowledge of the world before the age of Greek civilization. 

 Attention is called to the westward movement in the life of 

 the world, and this tendency is referred to frequently 

 throughout the term. The stories of Kablu, Darius, and 

 Cleon are read from " Ten Boys." A time line is begun and 

 continued during the term. A cross in the middle indicates 

 the beginning of the Christian era ; time before Christ is put 

 at the left, and time after Christ at the right of the cross. 



Early Greek history is studied through stories of the gods, 

 many beautiful myths showing the childlike attempts of the 



Greeks to explain the phenomena of nature. 

 Greece 



While reading about the heroes and the 



period of the Trojan War, fully two-thirds of the class have 

 read large parts of the " Iliad " and the " Odyssey " in the 

 children's editions in the room. A comparison of Sparta 

 and Athens is made through stories of the life and training 

 of the people in the two cities. The next age is best told by 

 the lives of some of the great men; as, Pericles, Socrates, 

 Demosthenes, and Alexander. Pictures are an important 

 source of information, study, and pleasure. A brief glance 

 is given to the overthrow of Greece by the rising power of 

 Rome. 



Through selected stories the children learn to see the 

 Romans as an energetic, industrious race, fond of conquest, 



intensely patriotic; training the young men 

 Rome .. 



carefully in the art of war, and according 



great honors to successful warriors. " Horatius," studie< 

 and partially learned in the second grade, proves an inter- 

 esting foundation for some of the conquests made by th< 

 early Romans. Some rays of light are thrown on the lonj 



