﻿HISTORY STUDY IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 21 



Eiiglisli history 6 



Guerbers 'Story of the English' 2 



Mowry's 'First Steps in English History' 1 



General history, specializing on England 1 



England and Europe 7 



Leading events in World's history from Caesar to 1453 1 



Roman history 1 



Guerber's 'Story of the Romans' 2 



Guerber's 'Story of the Greeks' 2 



Hebrew life 1 



'European Hero Stories' by Tappan 1 



Ancient history 2 



History as supplementary reading 2 



Certain facts appear in the above table. They are, the uniform- 

 ity found in history material in this grade, the slight tendency to 

 correlate American and English history up to about 1789, the ten- 

 dency to cover about half the field of United States history in the 

 seventh grade, and the absence of history material other than Eng- 

 lish and American. 



Eighth Grade. The story of this grade is a brief one. Out of 

 the 259 systems reporting, practically all teach history in the eighth 

 grade, there being but eight systems having history other than 

 United States. The five cases of civics represent systems that fin- 

 ish history by the middle of the eighth year and spend the re- 

 mainder of the year on civics, usually mth a text in the hands of 

 the pupils. The distribution of material for this grade follows: 



Topics and Fields Included Frequency 



United States history completed 170 



American history (no amount stated) 84 



Westward expansion, industrial and political history of the United 



States 2 



The making of the American nation 2 



State history 5 



Greek history and life 2 



English history 2 



Roman life and stories of the Romans 3 



Stories of the Middle Ages 1 



Civics 5 



The uniformity found in grades seven and eight may be due in 

 a large measure to the length of time history has been taught in 

 these grades. 



Summary. A great variety of history topics occur in grades 

 I, II, and III. ]\Iore uniformity is found in grades lY and V. 

 Grade VI is the uncertain field. United States history has almost 

 full sway in grades VII and VIII. 



