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Elson: "United States, Its Past and Present," American Book Co.

Faustine and Wagner: "The New Reader for Evening Schools," Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge.

"Federal Text-book on Citizenship Training," Part I-Our Language; Part II-Our Community; Part III-Our Nation, United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Naturalization, Washington, D. C.

Finney and Brown: "Modern Business Arithmetic," Henry Holt & Co.

Fisher, Annie: "Learning English," Ginn & Co.

Fisher, Elizabeth F.: "Resources and Industries of the United States," Ginn & Co.

Fryer, Jane Eayre: "Our Town and Civic Duty," The John C. Winston Co.

Fryer, Jane Eayre: "Community Interest and Public Spirit," The John C. Winston Co.

Goldberger, H. H.: "English for Coming Citizens," Scribners.
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Gordy: "Stories of Later American History," Scribners.
Gordy: "Leaders in Making America," Scribners.
Halleck: "History of Our Country," American Book Co.
Hart, A. B.: "New American History,” American Book Co.
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Howard and Brown: "The United States, Its History, Government, and Institutions," D. Appleton & Co.

Hoyt and Peet: "Everyday Arithmetic," Book II, Houghton Mifflin Co.

Huntington and Cushing: "Principles of Human Geography," J. Wiley & Son, New York.

Jones, W. Franklin: "The Jones Complete Course in Spelling," for Years Two to Eight, Hall & McCreary Co.

Jones, W. Franklin: "The Jones Complete Course in Spelling,"
Book II, for Years Five to Eight, Hall & McCreary Co.
Jones, W. Franklin: "The Jones Junior High School Writing
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Klapper, Paul: "Teaching Arithmetic," D. Appleton & Co.
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Lyman and Hill: "Literature and Living," Books I, II, and III,
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Turkington: "My Country," Ginn & Co.

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Abou Ben Adhem, 369-370

INDEX

Accent, how to acquire correct, 99
Adjectives, 51; comparison of, 52; irregular
adjectives, 52, 53; adjective and adverb
contrasted, 53

Adult, the, learning to speak new language,
8, 9; factors involved in teaching the
adult to speak, 9-11; adult illiterate, rea-
sons for knowing how to read, 129;
adult's need for reading, 130; adult illit-
erate contrasted with child illiterate, 131,
132; aims in teaching adult illiterate to
read, 133, 134; method of teaching read-
ing to, 138; preparation of material for
adult illiterate, 139; sample reading les-
sons for adult illiterates, 148-160
Advanced Grade, outlines of courses of
study for, 201-205; tests for entrance to,
Tests I, II, III, 265-270; aims of tests
for entrance to, 273; theme topics for,
395-398

After the Wrong Man, 387-388

Allen, James Lane, a selection from, 384
Amazed Barber, The, 385

American in the Making, An, 295–300
Americanization of Edward Bok, The, 289-
295

Anecdotes and paragraphs for dictation,

385; The White Feet Mystery, 385; The
Amazed Barber, 385; General Grant's Bar-
gain, 385-386; The Singing Donkey, 386;
Sight Unseen, 386; Lincolnics, Excerpts
from, 386-393

Arithmetic, learning by solving problems,
125; books to assist in pedagogy of, 125;
texts for classroom use, 126; classifica-
tion of adult students of, 126
Arrow and the Song, The, 356
Auxiliary verbs, 48

Baker, Samuel White, selection from, 341-
344

Beginner's Grade, outlines of courses of
study for Section A, 167-170, for Section
B, 170-174, for Section C, 174-178, for
Section D, 178-182; test for entrance to
Section B, Tests I, II, III, 231-236; for
entrance to Section C, Tests I, II, III,
236-241; for entrance to Section D,
Tests I, II, III, 241-247; aims of tests
for, 270, 271

403

Builders, The, 361-362
Buying a Pair of Shoes, 22

Capitalization, 88; rules for, 88, 89
Carlyle, Thomas, poem, 357
Child's World, The, 370-371
Cloud, The, 357-358

Coaly-Bay, the Outlaw Horse, 331-341.
Coleridge, Samuel T., poem, 366
Composition, value of, 87; topics for inter-
mediate and advanced grades, 394-398;
test in composition for entrance to junior
high departmental work, 273, 274
Concert reading, 67

Consonants, voiced, 93, 97, 100; voiceless,
93, 97, 100; chart of, 93; consonant or
consonants followed by r, 96

Conversational theme, 19, 21, 22; sugges-
tions for, 22, 23

Courses of study, sample outlines for all
grades, pages 167-205; Beginner's Grade,
Section A, 167-170, Section B, 170-174,
Section C, 174-178, Section D, 178-182;
Intermediate Grade, Section A, 183-188,
Section B, 188-195, Section C, 195–201;
Advanced Grade, 201-205
Crossing the Bar, 371-372
Crow and the Pitcher, The, 345
Curriculum, reasons for, 163-166

Daffodils, 364

Dandelion, The, 356
Demonstrative pronouns, 48

Diacritical markings, 90; for the adult illit-
erate, 135

Dictation, value of, 84; selection of exer-
cises for, 84; methods of, 84; conclusions
on, 85, 86

Dictionary, use of, 89, 90

Direct Method, definition of, 12, 13; key-
note of, 13-15; opposed to translation
method, 12

Drill on sounds for overcoming foreign ac-
cent, 96-98; in language lessons for illit-
erates, 136; on pronouns, 35-38

el not 1, 98

Elephants that Struck, The, 341–344
Elliptical sentences, 51

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, poem, 362–363
Emphatic verb phrases, 46

English, the adult learning to speak, 8, 9;
factors involved in teaching the adult to
speak, 9-11; first principles in the direct
method of teaching, 11, 12; direct meth-
od defined, 12, 13; keynote of direct
method in teaching, 13-15; field of lan-
guage in teaching, 15, 16; parts of speech
to be emphasized in teaching, 16, 17; a
Berlitz lesson in, 17; a Gouin lesson in,

17; types of language material in teach-
ing, 18; the objective theme in, 19, 20;
the practical conversational theme in,
19, 21, 22; the narrational theme in, 19,
23, 24; the expositional theme in, 19, 25,
26; basis for language instruction in, 26;
a unified language lesson in, 26; branches
of language study in, 27-29; correlation
of written and spoken, 27, 28
Expositional theme, 19, 25; suggestions for,
26

Fable, A, 362-363

Fable, the, 70; value of, 70; as an exercise
in language, 71

Fables, 345; The Fox and the Grapes, 345;
The Crow and the Pitcher, 345; The Lark
and Her Little Ones, 345-346; The Wind
and the Sun, 346-347; The Blind Man
and the Lame Man, 347-348; The Fox
and the Crow, 348; The Shoemaker and
the Rich Man, 348-349; The Lion and
the Mouse, 349; King Solomon and the
Flowers, 349-350; The Thief, 350-352;
Strength in Unity, 351-352; Robert Bruce,
352-353; Socrates, 353; The Farmer and
His Sons, 353-354; The Whistle, 354-355
Far Journey, A, 307-310

Farmer and His Sons, The, 353-354
Fernald, James C., A Working Grammar of

the English Language, 57

Foreign Accent, overcoming, 91
Fortune and the Beggar, 40-42
Four Things, 371

Fox and the Crow, The, 348
Fox and the Grapes, The, 345
From Immigrant to Inventor, 301-307

General Grant's Bargain, 385, 386
Geography, the old and the new, 115; im-
portance of teaching to adult immigrant,
116; aims of teaching, 116, 117; outline
of United States geography, 118-122;
materials and other aids necessary to
teach, 122-124; supplementary books in
geography for the student, 124; refer-
ences for teachers, 124; test for entrance
to junior high departmental work, 276,

277

Gettysburg Address, 381-382
God Bless My Mother, 386
Gouin, 12, 17, 18

Government, various approaches made to
study of, 109, 110; approach for adult
student, 110, III; outline of United
States Government, 112-114; helps for
teachers, 114; books for classroom use,
114; test for entrance to junior high de-
partmental work, 275, 276
Grammar, 30; aims in teaching, 30, 31; field

of, 31; essential grammatical forms, 32;
language expression, formal, free, 31;
parts of speech, order of teaching, 33;
how to teach inflections, 34; nouns, 34;
pronouns, 35, 36; verbs, tense forms of,
38-41; principal parts, irregular verbs,
42-45; demonstrative pronouns, 48

274, 275

How Long a Man's Legs Should Be, 391
Hunt, Leigh, poem, 369-370
Hygiene, 7

If You Hit, Hit Hard, 388

Illiteracy in the United States, 127-129.
Illiterate, the adult, reasons for knowing
how to read, 129; adult's need for read-
ing, 130; ability to read valuable asset,
130, 131; contrasted with child illiterate,
131, 132; process of learning and selec-
tion of material for, 132, 133; suggested
topics for lesson material, 133; aims in
teaching adult illiterate to read, 133, 134;
suggestions for securing aims in reading,
134, 135; diacritical marks, 135; drill,
136; silent reading, 136; method of teach-
ing reading to, 138; preparation of mate-
rial for, 139; oral introduction to reading
lesson for, 140, 141; the reading lesson
for, 141; phrases, vocabulary, and pho-
nics in the reading lesson for, 142; teach-
ing the alphabet in classes for, 143;
teaching writing to, 143-146; spelling,
oral and written, for, 146, 147; sched-
ule of recitation for, 148; ten sam-
ple reading lessons for illiterates, 148-
157; sample reading lessons based on hu-
man interest topics for, 157-160
Inflections, how to teach, 34-55
Informational test, 209; form of permanent
record card for recording, 220
ing, 96

Intermediate Grade, outlines of courses of
study for Section A, 183-188, Section B,
188-195, Section C, 195-201; test for en-
trance to, Section A, Test I, II, III, 247-
251; Section B, Tests I, II, III, 251-258;
Section C, Tests I, II, III, 258-265;
aims of tests for, 272, 273; theme topics
for, 394, 395
Intonation, 95

Irregular verbs, 39; list of, 42-45

Jespersen, Otto, 12, 54

Junior High Departmental, test for en-
trance to, 273; composition, 273, 274;
history, 274, 275; government, 275,
276; geography, 276, 277

Kilmer, Joyce, poem, 363

King Solomon and the Flowers, 349-350
Kriloff, a Russian fable by, 40-42

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