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American Indian Boarding Schools
A 1912 weekly outline and lesson plan for the Upper Lake Day School for Native Americans in California.

A 1912 weekly outline and lesson plan for the Upper Lake Day School for Native Americans in California.

Transcription:

Weekly Outlines
Teacher...Edwin Tabor
Day School Upper Lake, Cal.
From May 20, to May 27, 1912
Opening Exercises
Subject for May—Politeness
Quotations
At roll call from Memory.
Songs
Pentecostal Hymns, selected by pupils
Reading
By teacher from Bible or other selection
Lords Prayer
...
Flag Salute
Physical Culture
Gymnastics
General Calisthenics
Games
Ball, Races, Party Games etc.
Breathing Exercises—(in open air.)

[[object Object]]

Reading
B. Woosters Chart lesson 22-25
Ba. The Rose Primer page 75-85
1G. New Educational Reader No.1, pg. 110-120
2G. “ “ “ No 2. pg. 87-91
Language
B. Use new words in language work
Ba. Talks and sentences about words in lesson
1.G. Sentence building & conversation
2.G. Elementry [[object Object]] Eng. Text page 67-70
Spelling
B&Ba. {From words in Reading and
1. &2.G. {other lessons
Drawing
B.&.Ba. From work in Reading and
1.&.2.G. other lessons & drawing book.
Geograph.
B. Oral and local Geography
Ba. “ “ “ “
1.G. {Map work and study of
2.G. {Text Nat. Introductory page 16.
Hygiene
B&Ba {Oral instruction use Primer of Hygiene
1.&.2G. {as text, Chapter III.
Arithmetic
B. Counting objects & adding & Subtracting
Ba. Woosters Primer Arith. page 39-41
1G Nat. No. Primer page 90-95
2.G. Milnes Progressive Arith. page 32-34
Nature Study
B. & Ba. {Study pansies etc transplanting
1.&2G. {in box
Penmanship
B.&Ba. From copy on board and
1.&2G. from copy books.
Industrial work (girls)
B.&.Ba. play dinner making bed etc. use dolls
1G. {Lesson from outlines & making current
2.G. {pie etc. teach use of aprons.
Industrial work boys.
B.&.Ba. wood sawing gardening and
1.&.2.G. agriculture study.

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Citation Information
“Weekly outline/lesson plan for Upper Lake Day School, California,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/c5a55aa59e4ea37cec2c490e0a57fb95.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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Item 5 of 15 in the Primary Source Set American Indian Boarding Schools

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A 1912 weekly outline and lesson plan for the Upper Lake Day School for Native Americans in California.
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A letter from the superintendent of the Chilocco Indian Training School in Oklahoma with a list of students from the reservation, 1910.
A photo of Boy Scout Troop number eighty-one, from the Pipestone Indian Training School in Minnesota.
A group of girls posing for a photo with their teacher in a classroom at the Seneca Training School, 1905.
Students and staff of the Pipestone Indian Training School in Minnesota posing for a photo by a school bus.
A photo of the St. Benedict’s Mission school on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota, 1892.
A photo of home economics class at the Pipestone Indian Training School in Minnesota with several girls in aprons working on kitchen tasks.
A bulletin summarizing the activities of Tucson Indian Training School during the summer of 1924.
A 1911 pamphlet from the Santee Normal Training School which includes Christian lessons and prayers in the Dakota language.
A catalog for the Navajo Indian Vocational School in New Mexico, 1904.

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