1st Grade. Fairytales.
2nd Grade. Robinson Crusoe.
3d Grade. The patriarchs, Stories of Thuringia. Abraham, Joseph, Moses.
4th Grade. Judges and Kings. The Nibelungen Song, Samuel, Saul, David, Siegfried. Solomon.
5th Grade. Life of Christ. Henry I., Charlemagne, Boniface, Armenius.
6th Grade. Life of Christ. Teutonic migrations,
Crusades, Attila, Barbarossa,
Rudolph.
7th Grade. Life of Paul. Discovery of America,
Reformation, Thirty Years'
War.
8th Grade. Life of Luther. Frederick the Great, Wars against Napoleon, William I.
The above outline is Ziller's plan, modified by Professor Rein.
In each grade is selected a body of classical or choice historical materials, representing a great period of German as well as of Jewish or Christian life, and especially suited to interest and instruct children, while illustrating moral ideas and deepening moral convictions. The body of historical narrative selected for any one grade is calculated to form a center or nucleus for concentrating all the studies of that year. Reading, language, geography, drawing, music, and arithmetic largely spring out of and depend upon this historical center, while they are also bound to each other by many links of connection. A full course for the eight grades of the common school, with this double historical series as a nucleus, has been carefully worked out and applied by Professor Rein and his associates. It has been applied also with considerable success in a number of German schools.