The Penn's Grove record., 1910-08-05
BOARD or EDUCATION MEETING
Some Changes Made in Books

The monthly meeting Oh the po"iu VI
, Education was held on Monday evening.
President j. W. Trumbull presided. Ihe
other members present were Messrs. W.
F. Yeager, Simon Cunningham, N. ..
Wood, Walter Ball, Albert J. Bodine and
5 W. A. Summerill.
Mr.. Ball reported that some repairs
had been made to the plastering and seats
where needed. Thirty new seats were
!, ordered for the high school room unoer
the charge of Miss Alma Garrison SO that
all the high school pupils can be put INTO
two rooms and allow another room ior a
second fourth grade teacher, as there Will
be over eighty scholars in that grade.
The course of study and new books were
extensively discussed and some changes
made.
The Steadman graded lessons in writing
were adopted.
The Ward phonetic system, which
teaches children to read before they learn
their letters, is continued in the primary
grades and extended into the fourth
grade where it had been abandoned the
past year. Graded literature readers were
ordered for the first and second primary
rooms as requested by the teachers, A
geography primer was ordered for the
third grade, where no geography was
taught last year. The book contains a
county map Of New Jersey, with an &C.
count Of the leading cities and Industries
in the State.
Roddy's geography, which was intro
duced into the eighth grade last year, Will
be introduced into the fourth and seventh
grades this year, and Frye's will be coll
tinued. in the fifth and sixth grades.
New Observation-Disclosures Health Les
sons-will be introduced i'll one section OF
the fourth grade, III the fifth and seventh
grades, while Stowelps series will be con-
tinued in tie other section OF the fourth
grade and the sixth and eighth grades.
Montgonlery's Beginners U. S. His
tory has been continued in the fourth
grade. In the fifth grade Morrls's his
tory will be retained Tor hold-over pupils,
and Montgomery's Beginners will be
used by the new pupils. Morris's history
will be continued in the sixth grade and
| Anderson's from the seventh will be used
in the sixth grade. This allows the intro
duction of Montgomery's Leading Facts
| OF U. s. history in the seventh grade to
be finished in the eighth grade. Barnes's
| U. S. history will be used for hold-oyer
| pupils and Leading Facts for new pupils
i'll the eighth grade.
The greatest change will be in arithme-
from the primary to the eighth grade
| and Brooks's New Written Arithmetic in
the eighth grade. The difficulty has been
| that Baird's in the seventh grade did not
prepare. the pupils for the eighth grade
Brooks, which is an old standard book
and has given satisfaction and should be
begun in the seventh grade.
There was an agent present represent
ing the Hamilton Arithmetic. Another
agent represented the Southworth-Stone
arithmetic. The Board decided to intro
duce the Southworth-Stone arithmetic i'll
all grades.
The next greatest change is in gram
mars. Tarbell's Language and Grammar
has been used in the fourth and fifth
grades. Tarbell's will be used i'll the
fourth grade; Browns First Lessons Ill
Language and Grammar will be used III
the fifth and sixth grades, and Browns
Institutes of Grammar will be used in the |
seventh and eighth grades. Reed q Kel- |
logg's grammar has been used for twenty
years in the fifth, sixth and seventh
grades, but the past year the teachers i'll
seventh and eighth grades have almost
discarded them and used Browns, which
is an old standard technical grammar OF
the English language.
Only two books are changed in the
high school course. Scott and Denny's
Elementary English Composition is intro
duced for first year English study to take 4
the place OF Sykes Elementary English
Composition. Sykes subordinates the
study of grammar, spelling, punctuation
and figures OF speech to the study of poetry
and literary tales. Scott and Denny's
book treats of grammatical construction,
m~is-spelled words and the great import
ance of correct oral composition as well
as written composition. 1t has the fol-
lowing to say on
Observation-Disclosures.
"We try to make our meaning plain and
| Interesting to the little child, but in much
of our conversations and especially in our
| Rotations at school, we are apt to become
| very careless about the way we express
| our thoughts, and sometimes we are
| criticised for being almost unintelligible in
| the English we use. IF we would become
| good speakers and writers, we must begin
| at once to attend to our recitation-E Eng
lish.
Zone fault in almost all Rotations is
| that pupils do not make complete sell
| fences. They are satisfied to utter a word
or two i'll reply to the teachers question
instead OF taking the trouble TO state the
thought completely. They know that
every sentence should have a subject and
predicate, but, they often leave out IL or
the other. Every pupil who would learn
to use the mother tongue correctly and
easily in speech should watch his recita-
ton English from now IN with this one
thing in view: to express every answer
in full.
"Watch your recitation-E English. An
swer questions, as a rule, in complete
sentences"