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Courage must be the sheet anchor, the best hope of a teacher. Discouragements come daily, disappointments almost hourly arrive, hope fades and despair is ever ready to assume control; but the teacher, full of courage, brave in the face of difficulties, carnest and with heart full of love and tenderness can surmount every obstacle and ride out successfully the beating storms. Again we urge teachers to have weekly lessons in civics. It matters not what grade your class may be, your pupils are neither too young nor too old to be told about the gov ernment of our country. Every teacher should map out a schedule of topics which she should develop by familiar talks during the school year. Strive to make the boys and girls not only intelligent men and women but worthy and well-qualified citizens of this noble land. A striking, and to teachers an interesting, feature of the World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian. Exposition, was the International Congress of Education held under charge of the National Educational Association. The meetings were held in the Memorial Art Palace, Commissioner of Education, had charge of the meetings Chicago, from July 26th to 28th. Dr. William T. Harris, and to his great executive skill was due the success of the Congress. It was emphatically a World's Congress and its pr gramme included the names of the most prominent of educators in the world. The papers presented were on timely topics and were most elaborate in thought and diction. Unfortunately the attendance at the meetings was small, due to the attractions presented by the fair, but it was in many respects the most notable of the meetings of the National Association. of marks in recitation or for recitation. Not a few able There is no consensus of opinion relative to the giving educators are advocates of the marking system and employ it during all their teaching. Many, on the contrary, and we believe the majority of teachers, condemn the system as illogical and harmful and never use it. Supt. Edward Brooks of Philadelphia, said recently: "I know of nothing that is so well adapted to destroy the effectiveness of instruction as for a teacher to stand with pen or pencil in hand ready to put down a mark opposite a pupil's name the moment he has answered a question or finished a recitation. To train a pupil to recite for a recitation mark is to give him an absolutely wrong idea of education, and tends to destroy his taste for study and knowledge." To those using the marking system we commend these strong words of Dr. Brooks. The process of knowledge getting is never an agreeable one, neither is the knowledge gained made pleasant if the teacher sits with pencil in hand to mark the progress of the student. 1. Review the surface structure of the United States as a whole and show what portions of the Appal- BLACKBOARD SKETCH OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. VI. Population. VII, Productions and Industries. 1. Make the great centers of industry very prominent. 3. Lead the children to sketch maps showing the centers Remember that mental growth by natural activity should be the object of every recitation. Do not bury the great essentials of each section in a study of a mass of confused details about each State. Notice the poems of Longfellow and Whittier which refer to the coast of Maine. Lesson Outline. 2. Show pictures of New England mountain scenery and I. Position and Area. compare them with those of Western landscapes. 3. Constant comparisons between the East and the West will serve as memory hooks on which important facts can be suspended in future lessons. 4. Do not be afraid to attempt a sketch now and then representing scenery. A few strokes of the crayon will help the imagination wonderfully. For example, when the White Mountains are described a rough illustration is not difficult. IV. Drainage. 1. Draw out why the rivers of this section are mostly. small and rapid. Why the Connecticut is the longest river and why the Merrimac is noted for the manufacturing establishments along its banks. 1. Northeastern portion of United States. 2. Smallest group in Union. 3. Area, one and one-half times that of Pennsylvania. II. Coasts. 1. Generally high and rocky. 2. Broken by numerous indentations. 4. Many fine harbors. IV. Drainage. 1 Rivers small and rapid. 2. Connecticut longest river. 3. Lakes numerous. 4. Moosehead largest lake. V. Climate. 1. Very severe. 2. Winters long and cold. 3. Summers short and hot. 4. Moist winds along coast. 5. Winds of interior, dry. 6. Abundance of rain. VI. Population. 1. Chiefly of English descent. 2. Noted for education and refinement. 3. Many gone West from this section. VII. Productions and Industries. 1. Leading product, grass. 2. Farms small. 3. Gardens productive. 4. Stock raising a leading industry. 5. Dairy products important. 6. Lumbering in north. 7. Ship building in northeast. 8. Fisheries along coasts. 9. Quarrying in nearly every State. 10. Manufacturing facilities of first order. 11. Commercial interests of great magnitude. 12. Southern New England has more miles of railroad than any other equal area in the United States. Tabular View of Large Cities. INTERESTING FACTS. Capital of Massachusetts. Often called "The Hub." Noted for its institutions of learning. One of capitals of Rhode Island. One of great manufacturing centers of the country. Noted chiefly for its manufactures. Often called the 44 3. New England employs more fishing vessels than any other section of our country. 4. New England has more institutions of learning than any other group of States. 5. New England has the smallest and most thickly populated State in the Union. 6 The average size of the States in New England is less than that of any other group. 7. New England has the most easternly point of land in the United States. 8. There have been more emigrants gone from New England to settle other States than from any other section. 9. New England is the only section that has a State with two capitals. 10. Comparatively New England has more States that touch the sea than has any other section. 11. New England has the coldest climate. 12. New England has more places of historic interest than any other group of States. 13. No part of the world has so great a variety of industries as New England. A Few Interesting Facts About Each State in 1. The loss to Maine occasioned by the vast westward emigration of its people has been repaired by the inflowing of French Canadians and the settlement of Aroostook lands by families from Sweden. 2. Maine is famous for its laws imposing severe penalties on the manufacture, sale and use of intoxicating liquors. 3. It is claimed that Maine has more available water power than any other portion of the globe, of equal extent. 4. Maine has been designated as the "hundred-harbored State." 5. The primeval forest is said to cover three-fourths of Maine. 6. The fresh waters of Maine cover one-tenth of her area. 7. The first cog-wheel mountain railway in the world was constructed up Mount Washington in 1868-9. 8. The beginning of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire was a few huts of green logs built by Rev. Eleazer Wheelock as a school for missionaries and Indians. 9. Rutland, Vermont, has many sidewalks and hitchSeat of Yale Col-ing posts of pure marble. lege. Center of ex- 10. The railroads of Vermont at first followed the lines of the old Indian trails. 11. Plymouth Rock has been called the "Corner Stone at mouth of the Con manufacture of cot- of the Republic." cord in Massachu- ton and woolen setts. goods. Fall River..... 74,398 On east bank of 12. The State House in Boston has been called by Dr. Holmes "the hub of the solar system." 13. The only Epileptic Hospital in America is at Baldwinsville, Mass. 14. The Hoosic Tunnel is nearly five miles long and took In What New England Differs From Other twenty years for its construction. Sections of our Country. NOTE.-These sentences may be used for dictation. 1. New England has a river that turns more mills than any other in the world. 15. The first Insurance Company was organized in Boston in 1728. ERRATUM: In the "Lesson on the United States" in the June number of THE WORLD the statement was inadvertently made that: the sun never sets on this country, for when it is 6 P. M. on Attoo Island, Alaska. 2. New England quarries three-fourths of all the marble it is 9:36 A. M. of the following day at Eastport, Maine. A little arithmetused in the United States. ical calculation will show that the difference in time between the two places is but about eight hours. |