CLASS EXERCISE FOR COLUMBUS DAY
The foundation for these exercises should be laid in previous class recitations and specially prepared class compositions which relate developing incidents in the life of Columbus. Several periods used in the preparation of these oral and written exercises will be time well spent. Select the composition which portrays the life pictures most clearly and effectively; and as the writer reads his story, let other members of the class give tableaux or act scenes apropos. The children should be encouraged to initiate their own ideas and execute their own mental pictures in costume, arrangement, facial expression, etc.
The following are mentioned suggestively:
Acts portraying the life of Columbus
1. Columbus, the boy
Boy of nine to eleven years, seated, intently studying a geography,
or
Boy whittling a wooden toy ship.
2. Columbus, the man