OR METHODS OF TEACHING THE COMMON BRANCHES, ORTHOEPY, ORTHOGRAPHY, GRAMMAR, GEOGRAPHY. INCLUDING THE OUTLINES, TECHNICALITIES, EXPLANATIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS, INTRODUCTORY AND PECULIAR TO EACH BRANCH. BY ALFRED HOLBROOK, PRINCIPAL OF NORMAL SCHOOL, LEBANON, OHIO. FOURTH EDITION. A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO. KD33017 HARVARD ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern PREFACE. MULTITUDES of growing teachers spend money by tens or hundreds every year, in visiting schools, in order, that by witnessing the operations of teachers of acknowledged ability, they may improve or remodel their own systems. This volume is designed to take a working school on a visit to teachers. It presents to its readers in succession, classes in the several grades of the common branches in actual operation, and the teachers pursuing such methods as have proved abundantly successful with large numbers who have tried them. The Normal has been undertaken as a matter of necessity for training classes of Teachers. All books hitherto written for teachers, being designed |