Programme for Term 91 Form III and IV
Programme 91. (The 91st term of work set since the
Parents' Union School
began.)
(September
to December 1921. January to March, 1922, in the Dominions.)
Parents' National Educational Union.
The Parents' Union School.
(Address: House of Education, Ambleside.)
Motto: "I am, I can, I ought, I will."
(He shall) "pray for the children to prosper in good life and good literature."--(Dean Colet).
FORMS IV. & III.
PUPILS' NAMES __________________________________________
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Bible Lessons.
In all cases the Bible text must be read and narrated first.
IV. & III. Old Testament History,*
by T. M. Hardwick and H. Costlay-White (Murray, 8/8, Vol. III.
xi.-xxiii., pp. 8-56. (a) S.P.C.K. Bible
Atlas* (1/-). (b) Historical
Geography of the Holy Land, by R. B. Macphail (Clark, 1/-). (c) The Universal Bible Dictionary
(R.T.S., 7/8), may be used for all names of persons and places. (d) The Saviour of the World. Vol. V.
(P.N.E.U. Office, 8/-). pp. 1-63
(e) The Acts,* by E. M. Knox.
pp. 128-189 (Macmillan, 8/8). (f) The
Prayer Book in the Church, by The Rev. W. H. Campbell (Longmans,
8/8). with lessons on Advent and Christmas.
For Sunday Reading (optional):
IV. & III. (a) Heroes and
Writers of the Book of Common Prayer, by A. M. Forde (S.P.C.K.,
3/6).
For private daily Bible reading, children may use Lectiones for Older Children
(Spottiswoods, 1d. each). (b) A
Boy's Book of Prayer, by A. Devine (Methusn, 2/-).
IV. (c) Borrow's Bible in Spain
(Dent, 2/6). (d) Tennyson's Holy Grail, Vol. II (Dent, 2/6).
III. (d) Tennyson's The Morte d'
Arthur. (c) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Dent 2/6).
Writing.
Choose and transcribe passages from Shakespeare's Macbeth, and the other books set,
in A New Handwriting for Teachers,
by M. M. Bridges (P.N.E.U. Office, 5d, a card); work from card 6.
Dictation (A New Handwriting to be used).
Two or three pages or a passage to be prepared first from a newspaper;
or, from the prose and poetry set for reading; a paragraph to be then
dictated in III., in IV., to be occasionally written from memory.
Composition.
IV. & III. Read on Tuesdays some subject in "Literature," or, on
the news of the week, or, on some historical or allegorical subject,
etc. Write on Thursdays a résumé.
IV. Verses (note metre of poems set for this term), on current events
and on characters in the term's reading, upon heroic deeds, or, on
autumn and winter scenes.
III. Narrative poems on striking events.
English Grammar.
Parse and analyse from books read, making progress each term. IV.
Meiklejohn's A New Grammar of the
English Tongue* (4/6), pp. 86-102; 116-122
III. Morris's English Grammar*
(Macmillan, 1/6), pp. 56-78; 94, 95, or, better, Meiklejohn, pp. 1-22.
Literature (including holiday and
evening reading).
IV. & III. The History of
English Literature for Boys and Girls,* by H. E. Marshall (Jack
12/6), pp. 633-679.
(a) Shakespeare's Macbeth*
(Blackie, Plaintext, 7d).
(b) Kipling's Five Nations,*
Vol. 1. (Methuen, 8/-).
(c) Tennyson's Poems,* Vol.
1. (Dent, 2/6). Poems of To-day
(Sidgwisk & Jackson, 8/6).
IV. (b) Cranford* (Collins,
2/6). (c) Scenes of Clerical Life*
(Collins, 2/6).
(d) Carlyle's Heroes and Hero Worship*
(Blackie, 1/-), No. 61. Tennyson's The
Princess.
III. (b) Tennyson's Sir Galahad, The
Lord of Burleigh, To the Queen. (c) Lorna Doone (Collins, 2/6).
English History.
IV. & III. Make a chart of the period studied (1861-1920). (see
reprint from P.R., July, 1910, 8d.). Read the daily news and keep a
calendar of events. Lord Kitchener,
by D. Mackenzie (Blackie, 2/8).
IV. A Survey of Modern History*
(Blackie, 8/-), pp. 113-189, and from page 177, but taking only
1861-1920, or, finish Gardiner's History, Vol. iii. A History for Everyday Things in England,
by H. & C. Quennell (Batsford, 8/8), Vol. II. should be used for
period. (Elementary Schools do Form III. work.)
III. Arnold Forster's A History of
England* (Cassell, 8/6), pages 807-888.
French and General History.
IV. See, A Survey of Modern History.
IV. & III. The British Museum
for Children,* by Frances Epps (P.N.E.U. Office, 3/9), chapter
9. Teacher study preface. Keep a Book of Centuries* (P.N.E.U. Office,
8/-), putting in illustrations from all history studied. The Great War, 1914-1918, by C. R.
L. Fletcher (Murray, 6/-), pp. 66-120, or, better, The Story of the Great War, by D.
A. Mackenzie (Blackie, 6/-), pp. 1-54.
III. Creighton's First History of
France* (Longmans, 5/-), (1861-1920).
Citizenship.
IV. & III. Ourselves,*
Book I. (Kagan Paul, 4/6), pp. 140-162. North's Plutarch's Lives, edited by P.
Giles (University Press, 8/6): Paulus
Æmilius. Smith's Smaller
Classical Dictionary (Dent, 2/6).
IV. Citizenship* by E. R.
Worts (Hodder & Stoughton, 4/6). pp. 228-277 (narration instead of
questions).
III. Social and Industrial Life,*
by St. Loe Strachey (Macmillan, 2/6), pp. 71-106.
Geography.
Know something about foreign places coming into notice in the current
newspapers. Ten minutes' exercises on the map of the world every week.
Phillip's Atlas of Comparative
Geography (new edition, 8/-), may be used. See also tests under
"Scouting."
IV. The Ambleside Geography Books, Book V.* (5/-), pp. 210-267. Our Guardian Fleets in 1805,* by E.
W. Household (Macmillan, 3/-), pp. 186-220.
III. The Ambleside Geography Books, Book IV.* (4/-), pp. 188-248, with
special reference to recent changes (see new Atlas). Fighting for Sea Power in the Days of Sail,*
by H. W. Household (Macmillan, 2/-), pp. 66-107.
III. & IV. Map questions to be answered from map and names put into
blank map (from memory) before each lesson. Follow The Great War, with maps. Teacher
may find useful Out-door Geography,
by H. Hatch (Blackie, 8/-).
Natural History and Botany.
IV. Winners in Life's Race,*
by Mrs. Fisher (Macmillan, 6/-), pp. 240-279, or, Gilbert White's Selborne (Frowde, 2/6), pp.
178-268. Elementary Studies in Plant
Life,* by F. E. Fritsch (Bell, 3/6), pp. 1-80.
IV. & III. Keep a Nature Note-Book (P.N.E.U. Office, plain or
interleaved, 4/6), with flower and bird lists, and make daily notes.
For out-of-door work take some special study. The Changing Year, by F. M. Haines
(Wadsworth, 8/-), or, Countryside
Rambles, by W. S. Furneaux (Phillip, 2/6): August to December.
Furneaux's A Nature Study Guide
(Longmans, 6/6).
III. The Study of Plant Life,*
by H. O. Stopes (Blackie, 6/-), pp. 109-140. Ruskin's Ethics of the Dust* (Dent, 2/6),
Lectures 4-7 inclusive.
General Science.
IV. First Year of Scientific
Knowledge,* by Paul Bert (Relfe, 4/6), pp. 160-191. Some Wonders of Matter,* by Bishop
Mercer (S.P.O.K., 5/-), pp. 159-192.
III. Architecture* (Jack,
4/-), pp. 43-64. Geikie's Physical
Geography* (Macmillan, 1/6), pp. 46-91.
Hygiene and Physiology, Domestic
Economy.
IV. A Health Reader,* by W.
H. Abrahall (Cassell, 8/-), pp. 222-269. First Year of Scientific Knowledge,
pp. 359-876.
Arithmetic.
IV. Pendlebury's New Shilling
Arithmetic,* pp. 128-141. (Bell, 2/8).
III. New Shilling Arithmetic,*
pp. 58-71.
IV. & III. Revise back work; examples may be taken from
Pendlebury's New Concrete Arithmetic,
Book V. (Bell, 5d.).
Geometry.
IV. A School Geometry,* by H.
Hall and F. Stevens (Macmillan, Parts i.-iv., 4/6), pp. 171-181, and
revise 139-170.
III. pp. 27-88, B4 (ex. 1-8), B5-41. The
School Set of Mathematical Instruments (Macmillan, 2/-).
Algebra.
IV. A School Algebra,* by H.
S. S. Hall, Part I. (Macmillan, 3/6), § 84, pp. 68-74, 89.
German.
IV. Siepmann's Primary German Course,*
by G. Siepmann (Macmillan, 5/-), Lessons 19-21 inclusive. Teacher study
preface, using the lessons (with narration), exercises, grammar,
stories, poems, etc., as suggested.
III. Lessons 4-5 inclusive.
or, preferably Italian.
IV. & III. Perini's Italian
Conversation Grammar* (Hachette, 6/6), Exercises 1-5.
Latin.
IV. Limen,* Part I (Murray,
2/6), pages 116-141. Sections 28-32 of Cæsar's Belgian Campaign,* edited by S. E.
Winbelt (Bell, 1/9), may also be taken for narration and parsing.
III. Second Latin Course, by
Scott and Jonee (Blackie, 3/6), pp. 40-62.
French.
IV. Primary French Course,*
Part II., by O. Siepmann (Macmillan, 8/-), Lessons 19-22 inclusive,
with grammar and exercises. Teacher study preface. Read and narrate La Dernière Classe,* by
Daudet (Blackie, 7d.); parse two pages.
III. Siepmann's Primary French Course,*
Part II., Lessons 7-9. Teacherstudy preface. Teacher read lesson aloud
and children narrate Histoire de Mes Bêtes, by Dumas (Blackie,
7d.).
IV. & III. Read several poems and learn one from Longer Poems for Recitation
(Blackie, 6d.).
Drawing.
IV. The Fésole Club Papers,*
by W. G. Collingwood (Holmes, Ulverston, 4/6), pp. 121-144.
IV. & III. Illustrations of scenes from Literature. Study, describe
(and draw from memory details of) six reproductions* of pictures by G.
F. Watts (P.N.E.U. Office 2/- the set), Studies of heads. See the
special notes in the Parents' Review,
September, 1921. Paintbox with specially chosen paints and brush
(P.N.E.U. Office, 5/-).
Recitations.
IV. & III. Learn two suitable passages of 20 verses each from
chapters in Bible Lessons. Two hymns by Newman, Psalms 45, 46. Two
poems or 50 lines by Tennyson, or, a scene from Macbeth.
Reading (including holiday and
evening reading).
IV. & III. Books set under Literature, History, Geography.
Recitations, should afford exercises in careful reading and in
composition. Poetry should be read daily. Bulfinch's Age of Fable* (Dent. 2/6), pp.
186-215.
Music Appreciation.
See Programme of Music (Beethoven), Parents'
Review, September, 1921: Our
Work, The Listener's Guide to Music, by P. Scholes (Oxford
Press, 4/-), may be used.
Singing.
Three French songs, French Song,
with Music (Blackie 7d.). Three German songs, Deutscher Liedergarten (Curwen
& Son, 2/6, or without accompaniments, 5d.). Three English songs,
from The National Song Book,
edited by C. V. Stanford (Boosey & Co., words and voice parts1/9
each,* complete with music 6/-). Christmas carols. Ten Minutes' Lessons in Sight-Singing
(Curwen, 2/8). Fifty Steps in
Sight-Singing, by Arthur Somervell, steps 17-20 (Curwen &
Son, 2/6).
Drill, etc. (choose new work.)
Ball Games and Breathing Exercises,
by Alice B. James (Longmans, 1/9). For Drill Music, Music for use in Mrs. Wordsworth's Classes
(P.N.E.U. Office, 3/6), may be used. Peasant
Dances and Songs of Many Lands (Evans, 7/8). The Board of
Education's Syllabus of Physical
Exercises (Eyre & Spottiswood, 1/-), tables 65-68 (?).
Ex-students, House of Education Drills. How to Teach Dances (Evans, 4/6).
Hockey.
Work.
Do some definite house or garden work. Make Christmas presents. Simple Repousse Work, by E. J.
Bradford (Charles, 1/9). Simple
Garments for Children, by Synge (Longmans, 6/-), or, Needlecraft in the School, by M.
Swanson (Longmans, 7/7): design and make a garment. Darn and mend
garments from the wash each week: First
Lessons in Darning and Mending (P.N.E.U. Office, 2d., may be
used. Teacher will useful What shall
we make? by M. La Trobe Foster (C.M.S., 1/-). Cooking: Tried Favourites Cokkery Book
(Marshall, 1/-). See also tests under Scouting
(Parents' Review, May, 1920):
all girls should take the First Aid (No. 10) and Housecraft (No. 7)
Tests. Make a garment for the "Save the Children Fund"; for particulars
apply to 29 Golden Square, Regent Street, W. 1.
N.B.--The prices of books are constantly rising; those given are the
latest before going to press.
N.B.1.--Each pupil should have a copy of all books, etc. marked * and a set of the Pictures and materials. One copy of the other books is sufficient.
N.B. 2.--For methods of teaching the various subjects see Home Education, 5/6, School Education, 5/--(P.N.E.U. Office). In home schoolrooms. Forms III and IV may work together in all history subjects (including Scripture).
N.B. 3.--All books, etc. may be obtained from the Secretary of the P.N.E.U., 26, Victoria Street, London, S. W. 1, as well as exercise books bearing the school motto, 7d. each, and Cambridge paper for the Examination 1/6 for 4 quires (not less); envelopes to match 1/6 a packet. Also the School Badge (4/8), School Hat Band (4/6), and Ribbon 8/6 a yard. Badges stenciled in washing colours on pale blue linen may also be obtained, 4 1/2d. unmonunted, 8d. mounted.
N.B. 4.--Members are particularly asked to follow the notes under Our Work in the Parents' Review.
N.B. 5.--This Programme is for Members of the School only and must not be lent. Specimen copies of old Programmes can be obtained by members from the Secretary, House of Education, Ambleside.
N.B. 6.--All letters re School and Programmes, except book orders, should be sent to Ambleside. The enclosed Order Form for books should be used. Members are asked to send the School Fee direct to Ambleside. P.N.E.U. subscription, money for books, etc., should be sent to the London Office.
N.B. 7.--There is an Association of Old Pupils of the P.U.S. A course of reading is provided. For particulars apply to Miss P.N. Bowser, c/o P.N.E.U. Office.