Author: Mary Ella Lyng

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Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781331244516

Excerpt from History Plays: For the Grammar Grades The play idea will always appeal to the minds of children. History, so often thought to be a dry subject, is made a live wide awake game when the pupils live the parts. The great men and women of history are made real to them. This method has been worked out by the pupils in the fifth grade in the McKinley School in San Francisco and found to be most successful. The chief characters in Mace's Beginners History, the California State d104, have been dramatized. The children read the story and study by outline. Then with the help of the teacher the important events are made into a play. Much outside reading is encouraged. This awakens an interest in good reading and an ability to do independent studying. The lives of great men and women represent great things. Studying about these people is an inspiration to the children for the bigger and nobler things of life. "Lives of great men, all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us - Footprints on the sands of time." - Longfellow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.