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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Recitation, by George Herbert Betts This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Recitation Author: George Herbert Betts Release Date: June 26, 2006 [eBook #18698] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RECITATION*** E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Riverside Educational Monographs Edited by Henry Suzzallo President of the University of Washington Seattle, Washington THE RECITATION by GEORGE HERBERT BETTS, Ph. D. Professor of Psychology Cornell College, Iowa Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York Chicago San Francisco The Riverside Press Cambridge Copyright, 1910, by George Herbert Betts Copyright, 1911, by Houghton Mifflin Company CONTENTS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION I. THE PURPOSES OF THE RECITATION II. THE METHOD OF THE RECITATION III. THE ART OF QUESTIONING IV. CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO A GOOD RECITATION V. THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE LESSON OUTLINE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Teachers are not always clear as to what they mean when they speak of the recitation. Many different meanings are associated with the term. Some of these are suggestive but quite vague; and others, although more definite, are but partial truths that hinder as much as they help. It is not surprising that a confused usage of the term is current among teachers. From one point of view, the recitation is a recitation-period, a segment of the daily time schedule. In this sense it is an administrative unit, valuable in apportioning to each school subject its part of the time devoted to the curriculum. Thus, we speak of five recitations in arithmetic, three in music, or two in drawing, having in mind merely the number of times the class meets for instruction in a particular school study. A recitation here means no more than a class-period, a more or less arbitrary device for controlling the teacher's and pupils' distribution of energy among the various subjects taught. From another point of v
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