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REMARKS.-I. Do not memorize the text of any author. Use your own language to tell what you know of the text. 2. Write the answers to all the questions. "Once writing a topic is worth twice reciting it." 3. Repeat and re-write, time and again, that which you find most difficult to remember. 4. Do not omit taking notes as you find new facts in different authors.

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DIRECTIONS.-1. Read your histories to find the best "wording" for a sentence to express the exact meaning of the above dates and key-words. When you have settled in your own mind the best expression, then repeat the sentence till you have memorized it. 2. After thoroughly fixing each fact as you gather it from your authors, tell the story in your own language. 3. Follow the directions given in connection with the history of Virginia, for Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies. 4. Read all the books at your command on the Salem Witchcraft, then tell the story in a lively manner. Tell all about King Philip and his hostility to the whites. 5. Explain what is meant by a voluntary association as applied to the Plymouth Colony.

QUEER QUERIES.

41. How many persons came over in the Mayflower? Who was the first governor of Plymouth Colony?

2. What man was pressed to death in the witchcraft delusion?

43. What man was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony? What church did he found?

44. What is the "Hub of the Universe"?

45. Where and when was the first college within the present limits of the United States established? called?

46. What was the first American publication?

What is it

47. What was done with King Philip's head? With his little son?

48. Who was the "Great Indian Apostle"?

49. Why did the early settlers of New England object to chimneys? What is a "cat-in-clay" chimney?

50. What became of Anne Hutchinson? Of William Drummond?

REVIEW.

(Let this review be in writing.)

41. Trace the Pilgrims in their wanderings from their homes in England to the wilds of America.

⚫ 42. Write all you can about the wandering of De Soto. 43. Write the blackboard form for the discoveries of nations.

44. Study the subjects of the early history of the potato, tobacco, introduction of hogs, cattle and horses into the colonies, then write the facts in your own language.

45. Write all you can about the two Indian massacres in Virginia.

46. Write the blackboard form for the claims to American soil.

47. What was the extent of North and South Virginia? The New Netherlands? Of Acadia? Of Florida?

48. What explorations did Verrazani make?

Write a list of

49. Write the history of King Philip's war. 50. Write the form for tracing Columbus, all persons whose history you have studied, and mark the accent of each.

REMARKS. The teacher should assign written review topics in each recitation. He should not spend much time in the oral recitation of the advance lesson-just enough to bring all the important facts before the class. Send the class to the board with the distinct understanding that each of its members shall confine his writing to a given space. Assign each a topic with the request that he tell the most possible in the fewest words. When ready, have each in turn read what he has written. After each reading have the class criticisms. Criticise spelling, punctuation and arrangement.

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DIRECTIONS.-1. Bound New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Locate the capital of each. 2. Read all authors at hand on the Rhode Island charter of 1663. Find some good biography or life of Roger Williams and be able to tell as much about his life as possible,

QUEER QUERIES.

51. What was discovered in Roger Williams's grave? 52. What nation introduced horses into the present limits of the United States?

53. What samples of workmanship were found near the Madeira Islands previous to the discovery of America? 54. What State had witchcraft laws?

55. Do historians know how America was peopled? What theories?

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