The School Review Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...years' course of study in outline form based on the eight main volumes. Besides the outline of three years of work in history this volume also contains a number of graphic charts, source extracts, and illustrations. The other supplementary volume is called Graphic History. It is made up of three parts as follows: graphic history, manual of methods, and a supplement. It would be difficult to give an adequate description of the graphic history, which relates to the United States. One must really see the illustrations to appreciate them. A mere enumeration of some of the subjects illustrated will give some notion of this part of the work: modes of travel, habitations, slavery in the United States, the Panama Canal, acquisition of territory, political parties, each administration, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and each of the thirteen colonies. The part of this volume devoted to methods contains 126 pages. The discussion relates especially to United States history and was written by Professor A. H. Sanford, of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Such topics as purposes in teaching history, the use of the textbook, the use of outlines and reviews, the use of supplementary reading, teaching cause and effect, and many others of a similar nature are discussed at some length. This and the foregoing section would be of much interest to grammar-grade and junior high school teachers of history. Part III, or the Supplement, of this volume contains material relating to the administration of Woodrow Wilson, Mexico since 1867, and the war of the nations--all of which give evidence of the up to dateness of the entire work. Regarding the general plan of the eight main volumes on the history of antiquity, of Europe, and of America it should be said that the account is in narrative ...