The study of history in schools - 1899 Author:American Historical Association Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Continuity of Historical Study and the Relation of History to other Subjects We have no intention of framing a secondary- school course, in which each study s... more »hall be carefully related in time and space with every other; such a process is, for the present at least, a task for each superintendent or principal in the conduct of his own work. Certain suggestions, however, are pertinent, and may be helpful. We believe that, whenever possible, history should be a continuous study. In some schools it is now given in three successive years; in others it is offered in each of the four years of at least one course. Some practical teachers, impressed with this need of continuity, and feeling unable to give more time to the work, have thought it wise to give the subject in periods of only two recitations per week for one year or more; and such a plan may prove desirable for the purpose of connecting two years in which the work is given four or five times per week, or for the purpose ofextending the course. Probably two periods a week, however, will seem altogether impracticable to the great majority of teachers, and we do not recommend that this step be taken when the circumstances allow more substantial work. A practical working programme in one of the very best western schools presents the following course : — 7th grade, American History 4 periods. 8th grade, American History 2 periods. gth grade (ist year of high school), Greek and Roman History 3 periods. loth grade, English History 3 periods. nth grade, Institutional History .... 2 periods. 12th grade, American History 2 periods. Another school of high grade, where effective work is done, gives history in three periods per week for two years, and in five periods per week for two more years, viz.: — ist ye...« less