BY SARAH F. BUCKELEW & MARGARET W. LEWIS.
Part I.--THE HUMAN BODY.
TEACHERS" EDITION.
A TRANSCRIPT OF LESSONS GIVEN IN THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 49, NEW YORK CITY.
This work was prepared especially to aid Teachers in giving oral instructions in Physiology to Primary and Intermediate Cla.s.ses. It is, perhaps, the only Physiology published that is suitable for these grades.
Considerable attention is paid to the subject of Alcohol and Narcotics.
"First is given _a model lesson_; second, _a formula_, embodying the princ.i.p.al facts given during the development and teaching; third, _questions for the formula_; fourth, _directions for teaching_; and fifth, _questions on the lesson_. These last are important. A full plan of lessons is given for each week for five months, in each of six grades, showing exactly how much work ought to be attempted. No book could be made more helpful to teachers. To the thousands who are asking, "Tell us how to teach," here are full, minute, and correct instructions. Even the answers expected are given, blackboard outlines are arranged, and nothing is wanting to make the book as useful to teachers as it is possible for any book to be. It ought to have a large sale. No book published during the last ten years will do more to drive away routine from the school-room and introduce thought than this, _if only the teachers will use it_. Its introduction displaces nothing but the old-fashioned monotonous recitations. Let them go; we welcome this book as an important aid in hastening along the good time of better teaching. It is excellently printed, with good paper and binding."--_The New York School Journal._
DEVELOPMENT LESSONS.
BY PROF. E.V. DEGRAFF & MISS M.K. SMITH.
IN FIVE PARTS.
I. FIFTY LESSONS ON THE SENSES, SIZE, FORM, PLACE, PLANTS, AND INSECTS.
These lessons are presented objectively with a view to showing how elementary work in natural science may be done.
II. QUINCY SCHOOL WORK.
III. LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE AND ART OF TEACHING.
Specific instruction is given on how to teach Reading, Spelling, Phonics, Language, Geography, Arithmetic, etc.
IV. SCHOOL GOVERNMENT.
V. "THE NEW DEPARTURE IN THE SCHOOLS OF QUINCY." By CHAS. FRANCIS ADAMS.
DR. A.D. MAYO says, in the _New England Journal of Education_: "Although we have given place in our book-notice column to an appreciative mention of the volume, "Development Lessons," a new reading seems to call for a new commendation of this admirable guide to teachers. Mr. DeGraff needs no special "boom" as a first-cla.s.s inst.i.tute man, and his extracts of lectures in Part III. sparkle with valuable suggestions. In no published work is Col. Parker really seen to such advantage as in the "reports of conversations" with him in Part II., which can be studied with profit by every teacher. But perhaps the most complete portion of this admirable book is the 178 pages of lessons on the Senses, Size, Form, Place, Plants, and Insects, by MISS M.K. SMITH, now Teacher of Methods in the State Normal School at Peru, Neb."