This recitation is necessarily short, but it brings into use language and understanding to form a foundation for mastering and reciting the general topics.
Model for Teacher. From the First Five Paragraphs of the Eclectic U. S. History.
TIMES.—400 yrs.
PLACES.—American continent, Mississippi River, Great Lakes, four cities, Mexico, Yucatan, Adams Co., O., Marietta, Mississippi Valley, Central America, Atlantic, Iceland.
PERSONS.—Tribes, mound-builders, Frenchmen, Indians, ancestors, sailors.
MISCELLANEOUS.—Dark-skinned hunters, an empty continent, burial-mounds, 164 ft., 5000 people, island of frost and flame.
DICTIONARY WORK.—Wigwams, area, maize, bananas, tropical, solitary, basins. (Give meaning, and tell how each happens to be used.)
GENERAL TOPICS.—A Lonely Land, The Mound-builders, Wares from Ancient Workshops, Origin of the Early Inhabitants of America.