Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — Scrap Books for Country Schools. [ARTICLE]

Scrap Books for Country Schools.

As you are to teach goography and history and as a rule will have no reference books, you should make at least three. If you have any money for this purpose, buy three largo invoice books from a book store. If no funds are available, you can probably secure from some patrons some old reports from some of the State or national departments. From these cut out every second and third leaf, pasting your scraps on the remaining pages. Or you can buy a regular scrap book from a store. Use one book for geography, including descriptive, physical, and mathematical, another for civics, history, and civil government, not only of the United States but of all things bearing upon its history and government, and another for “general information.” Now, when We have the books and paste or mucilage, of course, the real work begins. Do not undertake to fill the books at once. Sift everything carefully. Envelopes may be kept in the desk, properly labeled, and the pasting can be done at stated times. Do not let the matter accumulate too fast. The book can be filled up with newspaper clippings and with written matter gleaned from valuable books and magazines. The patent insides of most country papers contain much valuable matter for all these books. You need not take all of an article, but omit paragraphs that are not pertinent. It might be well to make an outline on the board designating the subjects on which you want clippings, acWEtieach pupil can be requested to *St|h •the papers and magazines for material for the scrap books. You will looa have three valuable reference

1 books, and others can be made in other years. It is but little trouble and the expense is slight and the returns large. Another might be made under the head “Poems and Anecdotos,” which would serve to amuse and interest the pupils on many a rainy day. It would also serve for afternoon exercise, as well as for supplementary reading. NorthWestern Journal of Education. '