5. How many walls?

6. Point out the right wall; the left; the front; the back.

7. How many windows are there?

8. Where are they?

9. How many doors? Where are they?

10. What stand on the floor?

11. What hang on the walls?

12. How long is this room? 13. Measure it by stepping.

14. How many feet do you take in one long step? 15. How wide is this room?

16. Point to where the sun rises; sets.

17. Face north; south; east; west.

18. Where is the sun at noon?

II. LOCAL GEOGRAPHY FOR COUNTRY CLASSES.

LESSON I.

1. What is the name of the town or village in which

2. In what county do you live?

3. In what State do you live?

4. Point to the place where the sun rises.

5. Point to the place where the sun sets. 6. Point towards the north; the south.

7. Point towards the east; the west.

8. In what direction is your home from the school-house? The school-house from your home?

9. How far from the school-house do you live? 10. How long does it take you to walk to school?

LESSON II.

1. Is there any river near your home?

2. Do you know the name of any brook near us?

3. Have you ever seen a spring? If so, where?

4. Have you ever seen a hill? Where? What is its name? 5. Is there any mountain in your town or vicinity? Its name? 6. What is the name of the highest mountain you have ever seen?

LESSON III.

1. What towns besides your own have you ever seen? 2. What towns lie next to yours?

3. Have you ever visited a city ?

4. What is its name? And how did you travel there?

5. How does it differ from the place in which you live?

6. Do you know the names of any large cities in your State?

LESSON IV.

1. What farms or ranches do you know of near where you live? 2. What kinds of grain are raised on them?

3. What kinds of animals are raised on a farm?

4. How are they kept during the winter?

5. What are horses used for?

6. Why are sheep raised?

7. Why are cows kept?

8. What kinds of fruit are raised on the farms that you have seen?

9. How are butter and cheese made?

10. What kinds of trees grow in the woods or forests near where you live?

LESSON V.

1. Are there any saw-mills in your town?

2. What kinds of trees are sawed into lumber in them?

3. Are there any grist-mills or flour-mills in your town?

4. Are there any factories, mills, or machine-shops in your town? 5. Did you ever see a blacksmith's shop? Whose?

6. How do the people in your place earn a living?

LESSON VI.

1. Have you ever been a-fishing in any of the brooks, rivers, or ponds in your town?

2. What kinds of fish can you catch?

3. How do you catch fish?

4. Are there any mines in your town? 5. What is got from them?

III. LOCAL GEOGRAPHY FOR CITY CLASSES.

1. In what city do you live?

2. In what State is it situated?

3. In what county is it?

4. Is it a large city or a small one?

5. Is it on a bay, river, or lake?

6. What is the name of the principal street?

7. On what street is your school-house?

8. On what street is your home?

9. On what street is the Post-office? City Hall?

10. In what direction does the principal street extend?

11. Which way does the front of your school-house face?

12. What lies north of your city? South? etc.

13. What railroads, if any, pass through your city or terminate in it?

14. What city have you ever seen besides your own?

Add similar questions until all that the pupils know about their own city is exhausted.

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SECTION IV.-CLIMATE AND THE ZONES.

[Introductory oral explanations by the teacher.]

Climate. The climate of a place depends on the kind of weather that prevails there, whether hot, cold, or temperate.

Hot Climate. That part of the earth lying near the equator has a hot climate. It is called the Torrid Zone.

Cause. The cause of this hot climate is the fact that the sun's rays at noonday fall vertically, or nearly so, upon this part of the earth.

Boundaries.-The torrid zone extends 231° on each side of the equator. Its boundary circles are the tropics.

Reason. These circles are 231° from the equator, because the earth's axis is inclined 233° from a perpendicular to its path around the sun.

Seasons.-The weather in the torrid zone is a continual summer, there being but little change, except from the dry season to the rainy season.

Cold Climate. Those parts of the globe that lie near the poles have a very cold climate, and are called the Frigid Zones.

Boundaries.-They lie between the poles and the polar circles. These circles are 231° from the poles, because the earth's axis is inclined 23.

Seasons.-There are only two seasons-a long and freezing winter, and a short, warm summer.

Reason. The sun's rays fall slantingly, or obliquely, upon these parts of the earth.

Temperate Climate.-Those parts of the earth that lie between the tropics and the polar circles are called the Temperate Zones. These zones have four seasons; what are they?

Reason. These changes of seasons are owing to the different way in which the sun's rays fall upon the earth at different times during the year.

The teacher will illustrate the effect of the inclination of the earth's axis by means of a globe revolving around a light.

SECTION V.- -QUESTIONS ON LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS. [To be given as a basis for conversation lessons.]

SET I.

1. In what country do you live?

2. In what zone is it?

3. In what months does the snow fall?

4. Name the three winter months.

5. The three summer months.

6. When are the days the longer, in summer or in winter?

7. In which month in winter are the days shortest?

8. In which month of the year are the days longest?

9. When are the days coldest? 10. When are the days hottest?

SET II.

1. At about what time does the sun rise and set in the shortest

winter days?

2. In the longest summer days?

3. How long are the longest days?
4. How long are the shortest days?
5. How long are the longest nights?
6. How long are the shortest nights?

7. When is the sun more nearly over your head at noon, in summer or in winter?

8. When is the sun lowest down in the sky at noon, in winter or in summer?

9. When does the sun shine the hottest, at morning, evening, or at noon? Why?

10. Does the sun rise at the same point in the horizon in summer as in winter?

11. Does it set at the same point?

SET III.

1. In what seasons is it neither very hot nor very cold where you live?

2. What about the length of the days in spring and autumn? 3. At what time in the year do you have the most rain? The least?

4. How does your climate compare with that of the frigid zones? Of the torrid zone?

SECTION VI.-LOCAL STATE GEOGRAPHY.

[An exercise in general information.]

SET I.

1. Have you ever seen a farm or ranch?

2. Do you know any farmers?

3. What is the work of a farmer?

4. Are there many agriculturists in your part of the State?

5. Are there any manufactories in or near the place where you

live?