Box 15

Scope and Contents This diary contains extensive accounts of each student and includes charts to reference the teacher's understanding of how each child is learning and behaving in reference to the other students. There are good details on public fairs and field trips. There are also lesson plans for different reading levels, spelling and arithmetic assignments, science assignments, and observations. Throughout the year the teacher also divides and reorganizes the students based on how they are advancing and...

Scope and Contents This diary opens with a list of boys, girls, and "unadjusted" individuals as well as a discussion of 7th and 8th grade history, bibliography, geography, hygiene, and spelling. The majority of notes in this journal place students in high and low categories within each grade. Readings, discussions, and exams are organized together. Discussions are more advanced than for younger grades and center around current events (depression, unemployment), farming, technology, geography, economics, nature...

Scope and Contents This teacher focuses more intently on reading, writing, and activity or theme based learning. The diary contains extensive notes on reading lessons and turned in writing lessons. The teacher would often set up questions and reading assignments that would directly relate to "possible" field trips to locations such as mills and bakeries. The teacher also reflects on the material used in the course and suggests retiring "dittos" and instead focusing on group projects. This diary contains a letter...

Scope and Contents Short stories are about topics including vegetables and fruits, fairs, the bakery, Thanksgiving stories, snow stories, Christmas stories, stories about other children, pets, and wool.