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It has the largest amount of material and is used as a basal series or an "expression series" to accompany any phonetic method. HOME ECONOMICS By ETTA PROCTOR FLAGG, 75 cents. Published 1912. LITTLE, BROWN & CO. 34 Beacon St., BOSTON Teachers Magazine Vol. XXXV NOVEMBER, 1912 No. 3 Outline Thanksgiving Nature Study Lesson FIRST GRADE-THE EGG TURKEY The Graded Turkey you think Eggs are very wonderful things. Can of some creatures that come from eggs? All birds? Yes, from the tiny wren to the giant ostrich. What kinds of eggs have you seen. Hen, pigeon, robin, blue bird, turkey? What does a turkey egg look like? Where did you ever see one? SECOND GRADE-THE BABY TURKEY If the little turkey always stayed in the shell of course it could never grow any larger. What happens to the shell when it becomes too small for the turkey inside of it? What does the baby turkey look like? What about his eyes, his legs, his feathers, his bill? Is he a very goodlooking baby? THIRD GRADE-THE GROWING TURKEY When the baby turkey is one or two months old, what changes have taken place in his appearance? What are his habits, does he like to swim like the duck, does he walk around like the chicken, or does he fly like the pigeon? What does he like best to eat? Is he apt to be very strong and healthy or is he apt to take cold, and to get sick and die? FOURTH GRADE-THE GROWN-UP TURKEY When the turkey has grown to his full size he is rather a large bird. There are wild turkeys and tame turkeys. Who takes care of the tame turkeys? Have you ever noticed anything peculiar about the turkey's head? Males have a tuft of feathers on the chest. Can anyone tell how the turkey got his name? (Cf. Enc. Brit. Art. Turkey.) FIFTH GRADE-THE MOTHER TURKEY Of course there would soon be no turkeys unless the grown ups lay eggs, and take good care of them. How about their nests, and how do they keep the eggs warm? Are we quite sure there will be turkeys next November in time for Thanksgiving? SIXTH GRADE-THE KILLED TURKEY It may seem too bad but we all know that at a certain time, when he is fat and full grown, the turMaybe the farmer knows just when and just how key must be killed and prepared for the market. to do this so that the turkey will not suffer much. chickens, the pigs and everything that we eat. This has to be done with the cows, the sheep, the SEVENTH GRADE-THE MARKET TURKEY If you live on a farm and if your father raises turkeys, you do not have to go to market and buy one for the Thanksgiving dinner. Most people do, however. How do the turkeys look hanging up on the hooks or lying on the stands ready to be sold? Thousands and thousands are brought to market. every year and nearly everybody must like them, judging by the quantities sold. How much will your Thanksgiving turkey cost, do you think? EIGHTH GRADE THE ROAST TURKEY!!! How good he looks! How good he smells! Now we see why the farmer took such good care of him and why he gave him such good food to eat. Who bought the turkey? Who roasted him? How thank ful we are that such good provision has been made for us. Thankful to mother and father, to the market man, to the farmer, but most of all to God, who makes all good things possible. Surely we all like Thanksgiving Day, and will try to show our gratitude in every possib"- I. Round Table Talks With Subscribers Scheme Department Perhaps we should call this the "wake up" department. Some people never see an opportunity coming. Consequently they are not prepared to meet it when it arrives. A five dollar gold piece would be a much meaner present than an opportunity to make five dollars. Ditto fifty dollars. This is where we present our readers with opportunities. -The Schematist. ONE MONTH MORE The Round Table contest closes Dec. 1. The subscriber sending us the largest number of subscriptions before that date will be awarded the prize. Fifty dollars, cash or full value. Enroll at once and send in subscriptions as soon as possible. An open field and a fair chance for all. Read September and October Round Table Talks. "Vital Issues" is a handbook of scientific citizenship and statesmanship. It presents both sides of the agitated questions of the day. It should be in the hands of every person who desires to be well informed on matters of paramount importance. To the busy teacher it is worth its weight in any precious metal. It may be secured absolutely free with a two years' subscription to TEACHERS MAGAZINE at the special rate of $2.00. We will furnish the book to our present subscribers for twenty-five cents, postpaid. Search through this number of TEACHERS MAGAZINE and find Mr. Miller's contribution on the subject of insurance. It is practical and timely. The teacher who neglects this matter is acting foolishly, or rather is guilty of foolish inactivity. In presenting this subject, Mr. Miller believes that he is considering the best interests of the teachers who read his articles whether they e'ect to make further use of his services or not. The question as to how and where to spend a vacation may be regarded as one of the important considerations in the teacher's year. It is vacation enough for many just to go home. Others betake themselves to the mountains or sea-shore or lakeside, as the case may be, with no other idea but to recuperate. Some are so favored as to own their own cottages or bungalows, and the date of the annual occupancy is irrevocably fixed. That summer must come, however, which will be red-lettered as the time of the teacher's first trip to Europe. Recreation, education, inspiration-invigoration for mind, body, and soul-the transAtlantic voyage means all these for the intelligent traveller. So we are planning to go next summer, a few of us, and the itinerary is all arranged and the price fixed. 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If not, you may arrange to do so without a great deal of trouble and at a very slight expense. This is our proposition: All photos thus sent to us will be submitted to a committee and the best picture will be published in the following issue. Possibly several can be used each month. The reward will be a year's subscription to TEACHERS MAGAZINE or Educational Foundations sent to any address. No photos are to be returned. This plan may be made to work to the great advantage of many of our readWill you help? ers. One correspondent suggests the advisability of changing the form of TEACHERS MAGAZINE to permit of a larger page. We welcome such expressions of opinion. Our policy is to give our readers what they want. Changes will be made as fast as they seem desirable. The Schematist thinks that this is the best numher of TEACHERS MAGAZINE published this year. What does the reader think? II. Editorial Expression and Selection PERSONALITY DEPARTMENT Some of us live in a great hurry. Fascinated with our occupations, engrossed in the task of the hour, or perhaps overanxious for immediate results, we are impatient with the kindly admonitions which call attention to the subtler forces that control ultimate success. Too busy to read editorials? Dr. Noble William C. Donnell fe In the September issue we were privileged to print a message to teachers from Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, of Brooklyn. It contained an eloquent and inspiring appeal and illustrated the immortality of the teacher's influence. This month the good word comes from Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. Dr. Noble was formerly president of the Goucher College for Women, of Baltimore, Md., and prior to that was president of the Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown, N. J. He is an educator of splendid abilities and we bid him. a glad welcome to the happy family of TEACHERS MAGAZINE Contributors. He elaborated on the loss of temper, nerve, and honor, as an evidence of the undervaluation of self. He set a high ideal before his young men and gave them a lesson worth the cost of a college course. Temper. Nerve. Honor. To lose one's temper is to demean himself for the moment. To lose one's nerve is to confess himself unequal to his task. To lose one's honor-this is an "act of self-abasement which cuts deeper and lasts longer than losing one's temper or losing one's nerve." To cheat in an examination is to hold honor cheaper than parchment. To cheat in a contest is to hold one's self at less value than the game. "He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." There was much in Dr. Hadley's presentation of his text that needs to be impressed not only on the minds of Freshmen but on all who seek positions of influence. It is for the teacher both to exemplify and to teach the doctrine. So will the world become a better world and the people in it a happier people. Temper. Nerve. Honor. A Cheering Message to Teachers From Dr. Eugene Allen Noble, President Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. Mr. Ruskin told the laborers and workingmen of England that he knew of five great teachers; that they had related themselves to five cities; and that those cities were real beacon lights of history. I am of the opinion that Mr. Ruskin is one of the world's greatest teachers, although there are a good many persons who regard him as a querulous old pessimist, with some light but little sweetness. As a teacher, and by virtue of the essential quality that made him, and makes others, "mighty in method, majestic in task," he reveals himself, as every true teacher reveals himself, as the legible page of an open book. From five great lives he read one lesson, which very lesson is read not less clearly from his life. A teacher is a person who has a sane and satisfying philosophy of life, and is able by work and influence to fuse his believing self into other people. I can see some defects in that statement, as I see them, to the various meaning of such words as "philosophy," "influence," etc. But as I use the words it is a good definition. Good, for this reason, that it imposes a weight of responsibility, and suggests a compensation. If we were sure that our physical selves were worth fusing into other lives we should make better parents than we are. But to be sure that our believing selves, the self of mind and spirit, the better self, is worth fusing, ought to give us a heightened consciousness of what it means to live. Then the joy of it: ask any enthusiast what emotion has lifted him highest, and he will say, if I mistake not, that to be the parent of spiritual children is life's greatest joy. And the application of this? I ask every teacher who reads these words to make that. |