London Geographical Readers (Stanford): book ii. (1s. 6d.), pages 1-22; book iii. (2s. 3d.), pages 1-26; map questions to be answered from map and then from memory, and then in filling up blank map from memory before each lesson. All geography to be learnt with map. Children to make memory maps. Know something about foreign places coming into notice in the current newspapers. The School Atlas, edited by H. O. Arnold-Forster (37 Bedford Street, London, 3s.).
English Grammar.
A Short English Grammar, by Professor Meiklejohn (Holden, 1s.), pages 25-52. Parse and point out Subjects, Verbs, Objects.
Beginners, pages 5-25.
Writing.
A New Handwriting for Teachers, by M. M. Bridges (Mrs Bridges, Yattenden, Newbury, 2s. 9d. post free); practise pages 1, 2, 3. Two perfectly-written lines every day. Transcribe some of your favourite passages from Shakespeare’s Julius Cæsar, with page 6 as model.
Dictation.
Two pages at a time to be prepared carefully; then a paragraph from these pages to be written from dictation or from memory. The Citizen Reader, by H. O. Arnold-Forster (Cassell, 1s. 6d.), chapters vi., vii., viii. (both parts).
Plutarch’s ‘Lives.’
Plutarch’s Julius Cæsar (omitting unsuitable parts) (Cassell’s National Library, 3d.).