Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — Course of Study the Coming Year in the Common Schools. [ARTICLE]

Course of Study the Coming Year in the Common Schools.

Robert J. Aley, state superintendent cf public instruction, has received from the state printer, the 1910-1911 outline of the course of study in the common schools of the state, including the changes planned for the fear, and announced from time to time by the superintendent and the state board of education. — r __ The outline is intended for the use of teachers, and will be distributed through county superintendents in the county institutes. As formerly announced, the chief changes in the course are found in spelling, reading in the seventh and eighth grades and geography in the fifth'grade. To the course for the year has been added a course of instruction in hygiene and care of the health of the pupil, including sanitation in the home, also a course in agriculture in the seventh and eighth grades. " Books for the supplementary study of reading in the seventh grade, are announced by Mr. Aley as follows: “Evangeline,” “The Great Stone Face,” “Enoch Arden',” “Snow Bound,” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “Horatius at the Bridge,” “King of the Golden River,” “Vision of Sir Launfal,” and “The Merchant of Venice” (Lamb’s Tales.) In the eighth grade, the reading will be based on the following: “Tom Brown s School Days,” “Rab and His Friends,” “Child Rhymes,” “Oliver Twist,” “Child’s History of England,” “Captains Courageous,” “Last of the Mohicans,”* v The Spy,” “Tales From Shakespeare,” “The Making of an American,” “The Man Without a Country,” “King of the Golden River,” “Robinson Crusoe,” “Hoosier Schoolmaster,” and "Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Nice breakfast mackerel, 5 cents

each.

JOHN EGER.