The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-04-12

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EDITORIALS
Home Study
Printed below are typical statements
made by different pupils as to how
they can best get their home lessons.
We believe that if the proper condi-
tions were given for home study, much
better results would be obtained from
the pupils.
How l Can Best Get My Lessons
can get my lessons best if study
after supper when everything is quiet
and there is no one to distrub me. ]
must be alone or cannot get my mind
on my lesson If l concentrate my
mind, can get lesson by reading it
over once, but if do not must read
it over many times. If the lesson is to
learn some verses by heart l can get
it best if l learn it in the morning
when my mind is eased and refreshed
from the nights sleep.
Loretta Hennemann.
The best time to do my studying is
directly after supper. cannot get my
work if somebody is talking or if
some one is studying with me. When
I study very hard I can get my work
better than if l study carelessly and
take more time. In getting my les
sons 1 study them over and then re-
cite them to myself. If just read
my lesson over and do not recite it
I cannot recite the next day. In
studying this way 1 can almost be sure
I am prepared for the next days les
sons.
Grace Dickson.
I can get my lessons best when I
am alone in a room and no talking of
any kind is going on around me. l can
learn them best in the evening after
supper and then review them in the
morning before breakfast. When we
have oral work to do, l read a few
lines and keep saying them to myself
while l help mother wash the dishes
and do other house-work.
Hattie. Boyer.
The Fordyce Reading Test
To be able to read we'll is one of
the essentials of an education. A per-
son should be able to read quickly and
yet grasp the ideas contained in the
reading. This is our aim as teach
ers in the Sank Centre schools. We
emphasize to the students the fact
that there is no merit in reading a les
son over five or six times, if, after
that time they do not know the lesson;
that it is indefinitely better to read
lesson once or twice and then know
what it contains. .,.~
To check up the program in this
line, Fordyce reading tests were given
in all the grades from the third
through the ninth grade. There were
two tests, one story called "Narcis-
sus," given from the third through the
fifth grade; the other a story called
Esprit of Spring" given through the
ninth grade. The tests were passed
out and the students were required to
lay them printed side down. At a CIV
en- signal they turned them up and
read them quickly as possible. Then
when the time was up another signal
was given and the students drew
ring around the word they were read
ing when time was called. Those who
had not finished were allowed to COM
plete the story. One hundred forty
seconds were given for reading the
first test of 3OU words, in the thiro
grade; 1875 in the fourth and 10 in
the fifth; and 100 SECONDS for the SEC
ond test of 512 words.
These papers were then collected
and test of questions based on the
reading were passed out to the pupils
They were given Is minutes to an
swer the questions.
The speed IF the pupil in reading
and how efficiently he read, was then
computed and the average made for
the class.
Miss Acomb.
SCHOOL DOINGS
Students Aims Are High in Dramatic
Art.
The declamatory contest given by
the Junior and Senior High Schools of
Sank Centre, resulted in Martha Barr
and Aloysius Breher winning the con-
test. There were 10 students in all
who entered, 13 girls and six boys,
each with the understanding that some
would be eliminated until the best boy
and girl were chosen to go to Mime
apolis where the state contest would