6. When did the Christian Era begin? What is meant by Ancient Times?
By the Middle Ages? By Modern Times? In what Times was the art of
writing invented? In what Times was the compass invented? In what
Times was the telephone invented?

EXERCISES

1. Collect from illustrated papers, magazines, or advertising
folders, pictures of ocean steamships. Collect pictures of sailing
ships, ships used now and those used long ago.

2. Collect from persons who have recently come to this country
stories of how they traveled from Europe to America, and from ports
like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia to where they now live.

3. Let each boy and girl in the schoolroom point out on the map the
European country from which his parents or his grandparents or his
forefathers came.

4. Let each boy and girl make a list of the holidays which his
forefathers had in the "fatherland" or "mother country." Let each
find out the manner in which the holidays were kept. Let each tell
the most interesting hero story from among the stories of the mother
country or fatherland. Let each find out whether the tools used in
the old home were like the tools his parents use here.




CHAPTER II