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  • Monographs on Education in the United States No. 18: Education of the Negro

    Document thumbnail: Monographs on Education in the United States No. 18: Education of the Negro
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    Description/Abstract:
    Text copyrighted 1900 and 1910. Author is credited as Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama. A text on the history of the education of black Americans that begins by relating the progress of black Americans with President McKinley's words on the evolution of the country. Sections cover development of popular education, education of negroes before 1860, public school education in the south after the war, ground work education in the south, bequests for southern education, present educational status. Includes 8 statistical tables. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 44 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/26/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1776
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Our English: A textbook in Composition and Grammar Book Two

    Document thumbnail: Our English: A textbook in Composition and Grammar Book Two
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    Description/Abstract:
    1922 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Formerly Supervisor of English in Charleston, West Virginia and Also Teacher of English in the Lincoln School of Teachers College. Preface states text regards language as a living, growing thing, and follows Dr. Charles Sears Baldwin that the teaching of composition should be promotive and not merely corrective. Aims to stimulate desire to speak and write, and uses children's actual realities and projects and group work. Uses terminology recommended by the Joint Committee on Grammatical Nomenclature (appointed by the NEA), the Modern Language Association of America, and the American Philological Association. Part one includes chapters on organizing a club, the study of pictures, how to become more rapid readers, reading for meaning, use of the dictionary, civic study for the club, outlining a subject for speaking or writing, and as well as chapters on grammar. Part two includes chapters on the paragraph, contributions to the school paper, the sentence, subject and predicate, making ourselves clear, making a booklet, letters and social notes, invitations, telling a story, expression of feeling, words without organic connection with the sentence, idioms, summary of punctuation, the use of capitals, business letters and forms, and more chapters on grammar. Includes examples from well known authors. The Schultz Archive copy includes the preface, TOC, and a selection of pages from throughout the text that relate to composition.
    Creator/Author:
    Laidley, Mary Fontaine
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1922
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Elementary Steps in English

    Document thumbnail: Elementary Steps in English
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    Description/Abstract:
    Text copyrighted 1905. Previously copyrighted in 1903. Morrow is credited with a Master of Science and as Superintendent of Schools, Allegheny, PA. McLean is credited with a M.A. and as Principal of Luckey Schools, Pittsburgh, PA. Blaisdell is credited with a Ph.D. and as Professor of English in the Fifth Avenue Normal High School, Pittsburgh, PA. Preface states text is for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. For each of these years the text is broken into 10 weeks of observation lessons, 10 weeks study of pictures, 10 weeks study of stories and poem, and five weeks study of notes and letters. Each week's work contains four daily exercises in composition (oral or written) and one in elementary grammar. The preface credits the influence of Dr. E. E. White and Prof. L. A. Sherman. Preface states that it is most effective to teach students to speak and write with freedom unencumbered by rules. The grammar lessons are divided by year: 1st year, mechanics of writing; 2nd year, the sentence; 3rd year, the parts of speech. Text contains pictorial illustrations. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Morrow, John; McLean, A. C., and Blaisdell, Thos. C.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/01/2020
    Date Created:
    1905
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Language Lessons: Part One

    Document thumbnail: Language Lessons: Part One
    Type:
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    Description/Abstract:
    1894 copyrighted text. Metcalf is credited as Supervisor of Schools in Boston, MA. Bright is credited as Superintendent of Schools, Cook County, IL. A rearrangement of the authors text, Language Lessons, for a younger class of pupils. The preface argues students need opportunities for observation to awaken interest and stimulate thought. This text provides students with exercises giving students opportunity to speak and write. Poems are included to be read and committed to memory and occasionally to be studied. The text includes some illustrations to spur observation and thought. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Metcalf, Robert C. (Robert Comfort) and Bright, Orville T.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/21/2019
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • First Book in English

    Document thumbnail: First Book in English
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    Description/Abstract:
    Copyrighted 1894. The author is credited as having a Master of Arts and as Superintendent of Public Instruction, Brooklyn, NY. This text uses an inductive method and is designed in three parts for use over the course of three years of schooling, beginning as early as the third year of primary school. The first part contain exercises for constructing simple sentences. The second part requires students to construct sentence and to distinguish the sentence's parts. The third part begins generalization and continues analysis and synthesis of typical sentences with attention paid to irregular verbs. Exercises in composition with narratives and description are used in conjunction with the sentence and word forms. Models are provided for imitation. Exercises provide forms of sentences and the words to be employed. Some pictorial illustrations are included. Some poems are also included for appreciation. The author credits the influence of German language books by Baron, Junghann, and Schindler. The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Maxwell, William Henry, 1852-1920
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/21/2019
    Date Created:
    1894
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Elementary Grammar and Composition

    Document thumbnail: Elementary Grammar and Composition
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    Description/Abstract:
    Revised 1880 edition of the original 1869 copyrighted text. The author is credited as having a Master of Arts. A grammar textbook written for beginning and advanced students. Part one covers technical grammar, sentence-making, and composition. Part two covers properties and modifications of different parts of speech. Part three is punctuation. Exercises in false syntax, guiding questions for descriptions of pictorial illustrations, fill in the blanks for words and phrases, and parsing and analysis (with diagrams for mapping sentences). The Schultz Archive's copy is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Harvey, Thomas W. (Thomas Wadleigh), 1821?-1892
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/19/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/19/2019
    Date Created:
    1880
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0