Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ill. SPECIMEN NOTES OF LESSONS FOR COLLECTIVE OR GALLERT TEACHING. Notes Of Lessoxs, or the orderly preparation and arrangement of the material for a Collective or Gallery Lesson, is now one of the nost important elements of school-keeping in the best schools of Great Britain. Its introduction first into Infant Schools, and subsequently into Elementary Schools of every grade, is gradnally revolutionizing both the subject matter of lessons and the manner of giving them. It has given a practical importance to the discussion of method, which, till recently, was scareely recognized in the pedagogical literature of England. The following hints and sketehes are selected as specimens of the manner in which the teacher may prepare his notes for a Collective Lesson: ? THE PALM TREE. It wared not through an Eastern iky, Beside a fount of Araiiy; It was aotfauned by Southern breeze In s?m? green lsic of Indian seas; Nor did its graeeful shadow sleep, O'er stream of Afric lone and deep.?Mrs. Heman8. Analysis. 1. Show that palm is named from the likeness of its leaves to a man's hand. The word date is connected with dactyle, a finger, from the shape of tiwt fruit. 2. Eastern, same as Oricntal?Western, Occidental. 3. Araletl, Indian isles, and Afric are tlio native lands or habitais of the palm. It is here exotic?there, indigenous. 4. Waved and fanned imply gentle winds; while sleeping of the shadow implies a calm. 6. Creen, Saxon word for verdant?the green shows it a noun; here it is an adjective. 6. hic is the same as Gaelic Inch or Innis in Inchkcith, Innismore; also same as island, from Latin nsuln. Islet a diminutive, meaning a little isle. 7. Lone tells that some parts are but thinly pcopled. 8. Connect shadow with shade; southern, south?ful, full...