478 FARM AND SCHOOL PROBLEMS. 



Work Eliza Cook. 



Sowing and Reaping Adelaide Proctor. 



The Song of the Sower Bryant. 



The Summer Shower Thomas Buchanan Read. 



The Rural Life. 



The Country Life Stoddard. 



The Old Oaken Bucket Woodworth. 



The Barefoot Boy Whittier. 



A True Sportsman Foss. 



That Calf Alice Gary. 



The Humblebee Emerson. 



Thoughts for the Discouraged Farmer James Whitcomb Rilcy. 



Evangeline Longfellow. 



The Deserted Village Goldsmith. 



Strawberries Trowbridge. 



The Fountain Lowell. 



Living on a Farm Selected. 



The Voice of the Grass Sarah Roberts. 



Good Night Anonymous. 



In Nature Study: 



Read from Shakespeare. 



Queen Mab's Carriage. Romeo and Juliet I., 4. 

 A Colony of Bees. Henry V, I., 2. 



Read Eve's description of Eden, in Boox IX. Milton's Paradise 

 Lost. 



Questions. 



1. Why has there been a loss of interest in the one-room rural 

 school? 



2. Why is a consolidated rural school better than a one-room 

 school? 



3. If the average number of recitations in the one-room rural is 

 about 30 per day, what is the average length of time per recitation ? 



4. Is there as much interest in a class of one or two pupils as there 

 is in a class of ten or fifteen? Why? 



5. What are the chief causes for the fact that 93 per cent of the 

 school children in the United States never enter the high school? 



6. At about what age does the average pupil leave the school? 



7. What effect has manual training, domestic science, and agri- 

 culture had on school attendance where they are included in the course 

 of instruction? 



8. Why should the school grounds and buildings and class rooms 

 be among the most attractive objects in the village or rural community? 



9. What are the chief causes of unequal educational opportunities 

 in the U. S.? 



