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SPECIAL METHOD IN HISTORY

HISTORY

A COMPLETE OUTLINE OF A COURSE OF
STUDY IN HISTORY FOR THE GRADES
BELOW THE HIGH SCHOOL

BY

CHARLES A. McMURRY, PH.D.

DIRECTOR OF PRACTICE DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN ILLINOIS
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, DE KALB, ILLINOIS

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1903

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1903,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up, electrotyped, and published August, 1903.

EDUCATION DEPT.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Co.

Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

THIS book contains a plan of a complete course of study in history for the grades below the high school. It is an attempt not only to outline this historical course, but also to point out with definiteness the materials which may appear in each year's study, to estimate the value and fitness of the matter selected for each grade, and to discuss and illustrate at some length the method of handling these materials.

A separate chapter is given to a somewhat full discussion of each of the four grades of work.

The chapter containing the course of study names the topics for each year's work, and also points out at length the correlations with geography, reading, and literature, while a separate chapter discusses the value of these correlations.

The final chapter contains for each year a carefully selected and arranged series of books for children and teachers. It is hoped that this list will enable the teacher to carry out practically the course of study which precedes it.

In order to carry out the plan of oral instruction advocated for fourth and fifth grades, the author has prepared three small volumes of Pioneer History Stories of America, which are designed to furnish

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