Programme for Term 43 Form II
Programme 43. (The 43nd term of work set since the P.R.S. began.)
Parents' National Educational Union
Parents' Review School
CLASS II.
PUPILS' NAMES __________________________________________
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Bible Lessons.
Church of Ireland Sunday School
Lessons, by the Rev. J. Paterson Smyth (Glaisher, 1/-), Calendar
III.; Judges, vii., viii., i.
Samuel, Lessons ix.-xiv.
inclusive; Acts, Lessons xvii.-xx. inclusive, and the lessons on
Trinity, Advent, and Christmas. Teacher to prepare beforehand,
and to use the Bible passages in teaching. Children might use
Nelson's Illustrated New Testament,
price 1/11. S.P.C.K. Bible
Atlas (6d.). Answers to the Catechism with Explanations as
far as the Lord's Prayer
(optional).
+ Joshua and Judges can also be obtained
separately in The Bible for the Young
(Samson, Low, 1/-).
Writing.
A New Handwriting for Teachers,
by M. M. Bridges, 2/8; practice pages 1, 2, 3. Two perfectly
written lines every day. Transcribe, with page 6 as model, some
of your favourite passages from Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
Dictation.
Two pages at a time to be prepared carefully; then a paragraph from
these pages to be written from dictation, or occasionally, from memory.
Use Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature,
Vol. III. (Bell, 9d.).
Composition.
Write stories from (a) Plutarch (Coriolanus),
(b) The Pilgrim's Progress
(Partridge, 9d.), pages 105-141 (to Trial at Vanity Fair). Young
children who cannot easily write may narrate.
English Grammar.
Arnold's Language Lessons,
Book IV. (3d.), pages 20-33. Parse and point out Subjects, Verbs,
Objects.
Beginners, Arnold's Language Lessons, Book IV. (3d.),
pages 5-19.
English History.
A History of England, by H. O.
Arnold-Forster (Cassell, 3/9), pages 266-312 (1485-1533). Read
Miss Manning's The Household of Sir
Thomas More (Glaisher, 1/6), and scenes from Shakespeare's Henry VIII. (Cassell, 6d.).
French History.
A First History of France, by
L. Creighton (Longmans, 2/8), pages 134-155, to be contemporary with
English History.
Plutarch's Lives.
Plutarch's Coriolanus
(omitting unsuitable parts) (Cassell's National Library, 6d.).
Natural History.
Buckley's Fairy Land of Science
(Macmillan, 4/6), pages 212-237. The
Sciences, by E. S. Holden (Ginn & Co., 1/11), pages
185-224. Children must
make the experiments. Keep a Nature Note-Book. Record and
describe fifteen wild fruits and fifteen creatures and notice all you
can about them. Insect Life,*
by Mrs. Fisher (Cassell, 6d.). All members must take in The Children's Quarterly.
* May be used in the Summer Holidays.
Geography.
The story of The British Empire,+
by F. Anderson (Methuen, 2/-), pages 83-123. Northern Europe, pages 61-122
(Ginn, 9d.). Map questions to be answered from map and t hen from
memory before each lesson. All geography to be learnt with
map. Children to make memory maps. Know something about
foreign places coming into notice in the current newspapers. The School Atlas, by H. O.
Arnold-Forster (37, Bedford Street, London, 2/3). Take, under
direction, six scouting expeditions: see Scouting, by Baden Powell
(Glaisher, 1/-).
+ Members who have the London
Geographical Readers may take instead Book II, 115-142; Book
III, 172-198.
French.
The Gouin Series; French Lessons on
the Gouin Method, by F. Themoin (Hachette, 2/6), Lessons Q, R,
S, T, U. Little French Folk,
by C. T. Onions (Simpkin & Marshall, 1/6), pages 75-86. Make
new sentences with the words learnt in the Series. Recite two
poems from La Lyre Enfantine
(Hachette & Co., 9d.).
German.
Little German Folk, by M.
Schramm (The Norland Press, 1/6), pages 41-45, inclusive, to be learnt
orally only.
Latin.
A First Latin Course, by E. H.
Scott and F. Jones (Blackie, 1/2), pages55-66; 94-98; and
vocabularies. Revise work carefully by means of exercises, and
make fresh sentences with all words learnt. Boys may, if desired,
take Latin instead of German, in this case they should take Hall's Child's Fist Latin Book (Murray,
1/6), pages 89-104, in addition.
Beginners. - A
First Latin Course, by E. H. Scott and F. Jones, pages 1-5, with
vocabularies and exercises on pages 67, 68, 69.
Arithmetic.
A.B.C. Arithmetic, Teacher's
Book, Part II. (Sonnenschein & Nesbitt, 9d.), pages
92-111. Mental Arithmetic and Numeration for five minutes on
alternate days. Mair's Mental
Arithmetic (Sonnenschein, 9d.). Steady progress.
Much care with tables.
Beginners. - 1-37.
More advanced children may use The
Science and Art of Arithmetic, Part I. (Black, 1/6).
Practical Geometry.
Practical Lessons in Geometry,
by W. O. Eggar (Macmillan, 1/11), pages 71-92 (Friday, 9:20-9:50).
Picture Talk.
Six reproductions of works of Rembrandt (Perry Pictures, Nos. 711, 713,
718, 719, 720, 725). Use Rembrandt
(Bell, 1/-).
Drawing.
See Pour Dessiner Simplement,
par V. Jacquot et P.
Ravoux (Glaisher, 8d. each cahier), cahier ii. And iii., for occasional
use. Twelve kinds of wild fruits and six animals in
brushdrawing. Original brushdrawings from scenes from Coriolanus,
and Join the Portfolio of Painting
(see The Children's Quarterly).
+
Recitations.
Learn 100 lines from Shakespeare's Henry
VIII., and two hymns and two passages of twelve verses each, one
from i. Samuel, one from The Acts.
Reading.
Geography, English history, French history, and books used for
composition and recitations, should afford exercises in careful reading.
Music.
Continue Child Pianist
(Curwen & Son); teacher using the Teacher's Guide (revised edition,
1/11).
See also programme of music to be heard (September Parents' Review: Our Work).
Singing.
Two French songs, La Lyre des Ecoles;
two German songs, Deutscher
Liedergarten (each of these, Curwen & Son, 1/11). Two
new English songs from Novello's School
Songs, Book XXI, (8d.). Ten
Minutes' Lessons in Tonic Sol-fa (Curwen & Son, 1/2).
Drill.
Marching and Dumb-bell Drills from Musical
Drills for Standards (Philip & Son, 1/11). Skipping
Drills. Teachers use A Manual
of Free-standing Movements, by J. O. Haasum (Hachette,
1/6). Ex-Students take House of Education Drills.
Work.
Dress a doll in the Tudor style. Make three Christmas presents in
Sloyd. (Newmann & Son, 5/-). A
Manual of Cardboard ModellingSelf-Teaching Needlework Manual
(Longmans, 9d.), pages 15-24. Attend to garden (Aunt Mai's Annual, 1894).
** Mrs. Steinthal, St. John's Ilkley, has copies by her (2/6 each including postage).
N.B. 1. - All books mentioned in this Programme can be obtained at the prices quoted from G. J. Glaisher, Discount Bookseller, 58, High Street, Notting Hill Gate, London, W., and can be seen there before purchase.
N.B. 2. - The Children's Quarterly may be obtained form Mrs. S. Hayward, Hazlewood, Kendrick Road, Reading (2/2 for the year).
N.B. 3. - For illustrations for History, Geography and Picture Talk, see the catalogue of the Perry Pictures (Glaisher, 3d.).
For methods of teaching the various subjects, see Home Education, Vol. 1. of the "Home Education" Series (Glaisher, 3/6 net).
Children who have just been moved up from Class Ib., or who find the work difficult, may omit two subjects.