﻿HISTORY STUDY IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 17 



Thomas's 'Introductory Course in United. States History' 1 



American biography 2 



Pratt's 'Stories of American History for American Children', Boolis 



III and IV 1 



Eggleston's 'Great Americans for Little Americans' 2 



Cortez, Balboa, Columbus, Pizarro, and Magellan 1 



Colonial history 3 



Stories of Columbus and early settlements 10 



Southworth's 'Builders of Our Country', Book 1 1 



Mace's 'Primary Histoiy of the United States' 1 



Stories of American life and adventure 3 



Early history of America 1 



'Hiawatha' 3 



Stories of Columbus 2 



Material Based ox Old World History— 



The stories of Wulf and Gilbert in Andrews' 'Ten Boys' 9 



Roman history 6 



MoA\ ry's 'First Steps in Eliglish History' 3 



Stories from English history 6 



Greek and Roman history stories 4 



Harding's 'Story of the Middle Ages' 1 



Harding's 'Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men' 1 



Guerber's 'Story of the Greeks' 1 



Greek stories and biographies 3 



Ancient history stories 7 



Norse stories 1 



Stories of the Old World 1 



Heroes of other lands 1 



Material xot defixitely Included in the above General Headings — 



The World's great discoverers 8 



World history 1 



History stories as supplementary reading 9 



Stories as teachers may select 3 



Work, correlated with literature and reading 1 



Carpenter's 'Geographical Readers' 1 



Stories of great men 1 



Work correlated with language and geography 1 



Biography 2 



Committee of Eight course 3 



Oral history stories , 1 



By throwing all the material listed above together on the basis 

 of the general fields covered, the central tendency in this grade is 

 clearly shown. Such a grouping follows : 



Topics and Field Frequency 



American History — ■ 



United States history, text in hands of the pupils , 95 



United States history from a biographical standpoint. , , 87 



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