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taug'lit two, three, or more topics in the first grade. For example, 

 the Committee of Eight recommends Indian life. Thanksgiving and 

 the Puritans, Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, and local his- 

 tory stories. Any system following this course would therefore ap- 

 pear four times in the frequencies, rather than once. No attempt 

 was made to keep the 180 S3^stems absolutely separate ; the emphasis 

 was placed upon the number of times any one topic appeared in all 

 the coui^ses. The reclassification in the summary of the table in- 

 cludes certain duplicates, which accounts for the 323 frequencies 

 sho^vn. 



By reference to the tabulated topics, one notes certain material 

 that might be classified as matter belonging to subjects other than 

 history^ For example, the thirty-three cases which include myth, 

 fairy tales, folk stories, and fables could well be classified mth 

 literature or language material. Further examples that might be 

 otherwise classified are, 'home and neighborhood', 'names of presi- 

 dent, governor and school officers', 'talks on family and home', 

 'community life', 'Tree Dwellers' and 'Earlj^ Cave Men', and the 

 'Story o£ Agoonach'. 



Second Grade. Two hundred and twenty-five of the returns 

 either give the course in this grade, or make the statement that no 

 history is included in the second grade work; the latter number 

 twenty-five, or 11 per cent of the systems reporting. In sixty-six 

 cases this grade is left blank, though work is reported in the upper 

 grades. The actual work that the 200 systems are doing in history 

 in the second grade is shown by the following tabulation of topics 

 and fields included in the reports, with the number of times each 

 topic appears. 



Topics and Fields Included Frequency 

 Material relating to Indian, Pioneer, and Primitive Life— 



Indian stories and legends 14 



Indians; Pueblos and Cliff Dwellers 1 



Indian life and myth 6 



'Hiawatha' 4 



Stories of American Indians and Eskimos S 



Stories of Pioneer life 12 



Primitive life 3 



Committee of Eight, Indian life, selection from 'Hiawatha' 3 



Material relating to American History — 



Great Americans — Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin, Long- 

 fellow, Webster, Louisa M. Alcott, Irving, and Francis S. Key. 46 



American heroes . 30 



Eggleston's 'Great Americans for Little Americans' 5 



