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INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDIES 



II. MATERIALS AND SUBJECT-MATTER 



1. The Course of Study 



First Grade. One hundred and eighty of the 291 replies re- 

 ported work in history in the first grade ; eighty-nine made no re- 

 port in this grade, while reporting work in the other grades ; twenty- 

 two stated definitely that no history was attempted in the first 

 grade. The various topics taught in the first grade are listed below. 

 The number of times any one topic appeared in the 180 systems is 

 indicated in the column headed frequency. 



Topics and FielcU Included Frequency 

 The Indians and Early Pioneers— 



Stories of Indian and pioneer life ! 4 



Primitive and, pioneer life 7 



Study of Indians and pioneers 1 



Institutional life based upon Indian life 1 



'Hiawatha' as basis for study of primitive people 9 



Indian stories 15 



Indian life and customs 56 



Indian food, clothing, wigwams, etc 7 



Stories of pioneer life 5 



Individual pioneers : Marquette, Clarke, Penn, Frances Slocum, 



Boone, and Starke 53 



Stories of Primitive People (Indians not included) — 



Primitive life: 'Arya and His Seven Sons' 1 



Primitive life based upon Kablu in Jane Andrews' 'Ten Boys' 7 



Stories of primitive people 4 



Topics Not Included in the Above General Fields — 



Course suggested by the Committee of Eight 3 



Great Americans 9 



Special days like Flag day, Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays 



and Thanksgiving 11 



Birthdays and holidays 13 



Stories of local history 6 



The Pilgrims and Thanksgiving. 8 



Stories and myths 11 



Stories of Columbus, Lincoln and Washington 6 



Home and neighborhood 3 



Short stories in history and legend 3 



Colonial life 2 



Biography — mostly American 2 



History stories as supplementary reading 1 



Childhood of noted characters 1 



Work correlated with reading and literature 1 



Stories of great men § 



