Country Life Readers
By Cora Wilson Stewart
Third Book
Preface
There is an increasing demand for the education of adult
illiterates who have somehow missed their opportunity in early
life, and also for the better education of adults that have a very
limited degree of learning. The city has provided for this need to
some extent with evening Schools, designed mainly for foreigners.
All the textbooks for evening schools have, therefore, been
prepared strictly for immigrants and city dwellers. Rural America
is coming to realize that there exists a need for education among
adults in the rural sections as much as among those in the cities.
For this reason moonlight schools, rural evening schools, which
begin their sessions on moonlight evenings, have been established
and have now been extended to fifteen States. The people attending
these schools demand textbooks which deal with the problems of
rural life and which reflect rural life, and to meet this demand
this book has been prepared. The author has utilized the
opportunity when the rural dweller is learning to read to stimulate
a livelier and more intelligent interest in such subjects as
agriculture, horticulture, good roads, home economics, health and
sanitation, and those subjects, which, if taught to him, will make
for a richer and happier life on the farm.
Suggestions to Teachers
An excellent opportunity is offered in this Reader to introduce
profitably certain objects and operations of rural life. If the
teacher will utilize this opportunity, it will both give an added
interest to the subject and impress the principles of the same.
Therefore, the teacher is urged to study these suggestions and to
follow them as carefully as possible.
1. The script, following the printed lesson, is designed to
constitute the writing lesson of the evening's session, and should
be copied at least ten times. The letters in script are intended
for additional practice work in copying.
2. In connection with the road lessons on pages 10 and 11, a
discussion of good and bad roads would be profitable, this
discussion being based on the facts stated in these lessons. For
instance, there may be an estimate of time lost and of injury to
team and wagon by bad roads.
3. For teaching the banking lesson on page 17, a supply of blank
checks should be provided in advance. After the lesson has been
read, the checks should be distributed among the students. Then,
after a line is read in concert, the action mentioned should be
performed by the class. For example, after the class reads, "I
write the date," all should write the date on their checks; after
reading the next line, they should write the name of the
payee.
4. The lessons on fruit will be more interesting if...
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