6 BULLETIN 385, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
much outside work. This would give a value of three-eighths to the 
practical work. Wherever the recitation course is optional, the 
home work should be a part of that course to be necessary for all who 
elect the course. In all such cases the methods of applying rank 
and credit are explained in the first case. 
CASE Ill. NO COURSE IN AGRICULTURE. 
In many rural communities where no course in agriculture has 
been introduced there is already more or less organized project work, 
which may be utilized by the schools. In some eases this is organized 
club work and in others it results from the interest and activity of 
the teachers. Where such conditions exist it is possible to use one 
of the two methods which have proven successful in some sections of 
the country. 
Correlation method.—The teacher may plan to utilize the home work 
for the vitalizing of other school subjects. While this should be done, 
whether there is a course in agriculture or not, it provides a means 
for linking the school to the home in the absence of such courses.+ 
The teacher may have plans drawn, sketches made, problems solved, 
reports written, and letters prepared as a part of the home project, 
but credit each on the school rank in drawing, arithmetic, language, 
and other school branches. While this work is both project work and 
school work the rank is strictly school rank, and while the pupil is 
forwarding his project work he is getting real school credit for the 
educational phase. 
Extra subject method.—Other school authorities have decided that 
home work should be ranked as an extra school subject, carrying 
weight in proportion to the work done, not to exceed one 5-hour 
subject. This limit might be made less than five units if desired. 
Where home work counts as a separate subject we might have the 
following conditions, based on three hours’ credit per week: 
Rank. Credit. Total. 
Arithmeie aoe sere eee BOS er hee — 400 
Laneuaee ee eee GD: 3X Re a 340 
History-.24 2224 doe hh D0 XH a 450 
Geoorap hye: 3) 3 ee 21h ee 261 
Home projects... 22¢ = eee Ce a 270 
ysi AE 
General averages. 2522.9 oats os ere eee 85 
Variations of this plan may be easily made to fit any local system 
of credits. 
1 This subject has been developed in recent bulletins issued by this department as U. S. Dept. Agr. Buls. 
132 (1915), Correlating Agriculture with Public School Subjects in the Southern States, and 281 (1915), 
Correlating Agriculture with Public School Subjects in the Northern States. 
