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INDIANA UNIVERSITY STUDIES 



In the second grade most time is spent on some phase of Ameri- 

 can history. This fact is very clearly shown when the freciuencies 

 in the four general classifications above are summarized. Such a 

 summary follows : 



General Topics Frequenci/ 



Material relating to primitive, pioneer, and Indian life 51 



Material from some phase of American history 124 



Material relating to Old World history 95 



Material not included above (fairy tales, myths, legends, community 

 life, work correlated with geography, etc.) 51 



The above data show that American history in some form or 

 other is receiving most attention in the second grade, with history 

 relating to Old World stories a rather close second. The large 

 number of cases in Indiana had an influence in this showing. The 

 answers from Indiana are included in the forty-six frequencies 

 showing material relating to American history, and the sixty shoAv- 

 ing material relating to Old "World history. The material under 

 the last heading in the summary is rather general and indefinite. 

 Some of it could be considered as belonging to other subjects as 

 well as historv^ Robinson Crusoe stories, fairy tales and myths, 

 oral community life, clif£ and lake dwellers, home life, and farm 

 life are examples of such material. A¥henever the history work is 

 correlated with literature, geography, or civics, such material as 

 the above is made the basis of the work. 



Third Grade. Two hundred and nine of the replies give the 

 course used in this grade, thirteen state that no regular work in 

 history is attempted, and thirty-seven leave this part of the ques- 

 tionnaire unanswered. The interesting fact in the case of this 

 grade is the prevalence of history other than American, there being 

 almost twice as many systems giving the former as the latter. Some 

 form of Greek, or Hebrew, life is the material most often included. 

 This fact does not stand out so prominently when the forty-five 

 cases in Indiana are subtracted from the total of sixty-six. No 

 special subject-matter predominates outside of Indiana. The topics 

 and fields included in the courses followed in the 209 systems giving 

 history in this grade are shown in the following tabulation. An 

 attempt has been made to organize all the material under three 

 general headings. The variation under these headings is well 

 shown hy the large numl)er of topics, especially under the first two, 



