An Outline of History, for the Grades

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The aim of this outline is to present the connected threads and principles which the author has worked out in detailed form for children in A History for Graded and District Schools.

Two chief ends have been aimed at: first, to present a plan of work which will, if followed by the teacher, tend to develop in her mind a real sense of history, - of its growth and unity; second, to suggest such material for the use of pupils as will tend to develop in their minds the true historic sense and lift them from grade to grade into ever wider and richer historical views.

The outline is based upon the idea that pupils in history should be led to feel and participate in the life of the people they are studying, - feel the problems of daily living which confronted them and strive to solve them.

Like all outlines, it must be filled in with material drawn from books, pictures, maps, stories, poems, and other illustrative material, in order to be made effective. It is simply a skeleton; the teacher and pupil must clothe it with flesh, and breathe into it the pulsating life of history. To aid toward this end, in addition to the history of which this book is an outline, a list of books has been suggested at the close of the outline of work for each grade. In making these lists care has been taken to give teachers such information as will enable them easily to judge something of the nature and fitness of each book for their particular needs.

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