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The customs of the Indians can be developed at length. The 

 character will come out gradually. Use besides, adaptations 

 from Morton's, "New English Canaan" to show the attitude of 

 an exceptional in old New England. Use Irving's, "Traits of 

 Indian Character" (in Sketch Book), and Philip Freneau's, 

 "Indian Burying Ground." 



Introduce the Indian's attitude toward animals with Hiawatha's 

 childhood, but amplify that with such things as Eastman's "Red 

 Hunters and the Animal People," "Wigwam Evenings" and other 

 Indian lore. Use MacDowell's, "From an Indian Lodge," 

 with the folk -tale material. Also introduce the real Indian songs, 

 such as "Worn out Moccasins", "In the Still Night," "Hiawatha's 

 Departure," etc. If possible, a masque or pageant of some sort 

 should be given which would represent this Indian theme. 



Stray away from "Hiawatha" at the close, and take up the 

 sort of Indian which Cooper represented in the "Last of the 

 Mohicans." Have the children decide as to the reality of the 

 Cooper Indian. Then wander for the last several weeks of study 

 into the South-west and take up the study of Jackson's, "Romona. 

 There is much splendid illustrative art material here in Ufer, 

 Henri, Reni, and many others of the Taos Pueblo School. Mac- 

 Neil's, "Prayer for Rain," is very good as a sculptural bit upon 

 this strange Western land. 



Close the Indian year study with a general view of the Indian. 

 Use parts of Eastman's, "The Soul of the Indian." Interpret the 

 Indian in the more himian light of just attitude, and unbiased 

 opinion. 



Eighth Grade 



. This is again a period of ideas. Much the same as the sixth 

 grade in that it strives to interpret poetry and prose in terms of 

 ideas, but beyond anything which that grade attempted. The 

 meaning of the sea, the forest, the prairies, the lakes, the inter- 

 pretation of the whole of Nature, the adjustment of it to the moods 

 and interests of man is attempted in portrayal here. The great 

 value of the course lies in showing the general relation of our natural 

 background to himian thought life. There is a more insistent 

 attempt at combination of nature and art and literature. 



