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PIECES FOR EVERY DAY THE SCHOOLS CELEBRATE. Deming, Norma H., and Bemis, Katherine I. New York, Lloyd Adams Noble, 1921.

Holmes, Oliver W. Washington's birthday.

Cook, Eliza. The star in the west.

Durbin, Eliza W. Our Washington.

Butterworth, Hezekiah. Crown our Washington.

Anonymous. George Washington.

READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN. Complete poetical works. Philadelphia, Lippincott. The rising of 1776.

RECITATIONS FOR EVERY OCCASION. Case, Carleton B. Chicago, Shrewsbury Publish ing Co., 1924.

Burdick, Arthur J. Washington's birthday.

Burdette, Robert J. The good old times.

Sangster, Margaret E. 'Tis splendid to live so grandly.

WOOSTER'S PATRIOTIC GUIDE AND SPEAKER. Chicago, Wooster & Co. 1928.

Macbeth, Eliza. The hero. An exercise for sixteen boys arranged as an acrostic. Byrnes, Louise M. Washington. An acrostic for ten pupils.

Whitmarsh, A. N. Our first flag. A recitation, may be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

Ward, Daniel A. America the beautiful. Arranged as a recitation.

THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY. New York, The University Society (Inc.).

Bennett, Henry Holcomb. The flag goes by.

Finch, Francis Miles. Nathan Hale.

Kipling, Rudyard. The recessional.

Paine, Thomas. Liberty tree. (1775.)

Pierpont, John. Warren's address. (Gen. Joseph Warren, who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.)

VERSE FOR PATRIOTS TO ENCOURAGE GOOD CITIZENSHIP, compiled by Jean Broadhurst and Clara L. Rhodes. 1919. New York, Lippincott. A complete compilation of patriotic selections.

Bennett, Henry Holcomb. The flag goes by.

Gilder, Richard Watson. The Washington Monument (at Washington, D. C.). Hopkinson, Joseph. Hail! Columbia.

Lowell, James Russell. Fourth of July ode.

Read, Thomas Buchanan. The rising of 1776.

Roche, James Jeffrey. Washington.

Shaw, D. T. The red, white, and blue.

Sherwood, Kate Brownlee. Mollie Pitcher.

RECITATIONS FOR EVERY OCCASION. Chicago, Shrewesbury Publishing Co.

Amory, Frances. Fourth of July.

Archer, Sara F. Flag song.

Burdette, Robert J. The good old times.

Daly, John. A toast to the flag.

Gillette, Mary A. A boy's right (4th of July).

Nesbit, Wilbur D. A song for flag day.

Schiller, J. C. F. The flag.

FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON, by James Hay, jr. School Life, Vol. XVII, No. 2, October, 1931, official organ of the Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. 50 cents per year; 5 cents per single copy.

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VI. PLAYS, PAGEANTS, AND

DRAMATIZATIONS

The dramatization of a story has many values, for the child who takes the part of a character successfully must thoroughly understand the thoughts and feelings of that character and must reveal them to his audience.

Many plays and pageants in addition to those listed here have been published recently by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission (see p. 8) and can be secured free by writing to the Commission at the Washington Building, Washington, D. C.

The American Library Association, as will be noted, has just issued a list of children's plays, of which the 23 titles here given are appropriate for use in George Washington programs.

More valuable than these, however, are the plays which the pupils themselves may write and dramatize, because the story becomes their own in a peculiar sense and makes a more lasting impression than one in which a single part is memorized and acted. This makes careful research nec essary, including much reading and the practice of written and oral English. Abundant material will be found in the stories, poems, songs, and pictures referred to in this bibliography for exercises in dramatic writing and production.

FOX, FLORENCE C. Childhood days in Washington's time. (A pageant for elementary grades.) Washington, D. C., George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1931. HYATT, ABOLA L. Index to children's plays. Chicago, American Library Association, 1931.

This book lists a number of plays about Washington and his time, among which are the following:

1. Birthday ball. M. Wood. Why we celebrate. New York, Samuel French, Inc. 2. Birthdays come in February. J. C. Farrar. Magic sea shell; and other plays for children. New York, Doran Co.

3. Eaglesfeather. S. Baldwin. Five plays and five pantomimes. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Co.

4. Ferry Farm episode. C. D. Mackay. Patriotic plays and pageants for young people. New York, Holt & Co.

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5. First in war. E. Hubbard. Little American history plays for little Americans. New York, Sanborn & Co.

6. Franklin's forebodings. F. O'Ryan and Wynne, A. Plays from American history. New York, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge.

7. George Washington. Mrs. M. H. (B) Wade. Boston, Richard G. Badger (The Gorham Press).

8. George Washington at the Delaware. R. H. Schauffler and A. P. Sanford. Plays of our American holidays. (v. 3.) New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. 9. George Washington at the helm of State. M. A. Niemeier. New plays for every day the schools celebrate. New York, Noble & Noble.

10. George Washington's fortune. C. D. Mackay. Patriotic plays and pageants for young people. New York, Henry Holt & Co.

11. George Washington's wedding. R. H. Schauffler and A. P. Sanford. Plays of our American holidays (v. 2, Plays for festivals). New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.

12. Great general's lesson to the little corporal. E. Hubbard. Little American history plays for little Americans. New York, Sanborn & Co.

13. Hardships at Valley Forge. F. U. Payne. Plays and pageants of democracy. New York, Harper & Bros.

14. Historical coincidence. F. O'Ryan and A. Wynne. Plays from American history. New York, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge.

15. Man who bore the burden. A. Stevenson. Dramatized scenes from American history. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.

16. Mrs. Murray's dinner party. A. J. Walker. Little plays from American history. New York, Henry Holt & Co.

17. Precarious situations in Boston's history. F. O'Ryan and A. Wynne. Plays from American history. New York, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge.

18. Washington and Betsy Ross. R. H. Schauffler and A. P. Sanford. Plays of our American holidays (v. 3, Plays for patriotic days). New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.

19. Washington and the spy. M. F. Lansing. Dramatic readings for schools. New York, Macmillan Co.

20. Washington's birthday. M. Kennedy and K. I. Bemis. Special day pageants for little people. New York, Barnes & Co.

21. Washington's birthday. Mrs. M. I. O. Noyes and B. H. Ray. Little plays for little people. Boston, Ginn & Co.

22. Washington's birthday pageant. M. Merington. Holiday plays. New York, Duffield & Co.

23. Washington's message to Anychild. F. U. Payne. Plays for any child. New York, Harper & Bros.

KOCH, FREDERICK HENRY. Plays for schools and little theaters. Issued by the Bureau of Community Drama, Chapel Hill, N. C., the University of North Carolina Press, 1930.

MACKAY, C. D. Patriotic plays and pageants for young people (grades 5-8). New York, Henry Holt & Co.

SANFORD, A. P., ed. George Washington plays. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1931.

STEVENSON, A. Dramatized scenes from American history (grades 6-8). Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.

WADE, Mrs. MARY HAZELTON (BLANCHARD). George Washington; a story and a play. Boston, R. G. Badger, 1914.

Little folks' plays of American heroes.

WALKER, A. T. Little plays from American history for young folks (grades 6-8). New York, Henry Holt & Co.

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VII. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR PUPILS

GRAPHIC, PLASTIC, AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS

Several activities have already been suggested to the reader through the references included in previous sec tions. Preparation of programs for other classes or for parents, presentation of plays, planning of dramatizations and pageants, construction of models of fine colonial handwork, drawing pictures, and collecting anecdotes are all activities useful in the classroom.

The George Washington work books will afford interesting material for constructive activities to be carried on both at home and at school, and are also suggestive of a type of original material which may be prepared by the pupils in the classroom. Several such activities are outlined here in detail, in order to show the correlation of graphic, plastic, and industrial arts often necessary in carrying out such units of work.

THE HOME AT MOUNT VERNON IN

WASHINGTON'S BOYHOOD

A SAND TABLE BUILDING PROJECT

Manor house with kitchen, weaving room, etc.; slave quarters; gar. den, with Nellie Custis's schoolroom; original and later tombs of Washington; coach house with old coach; boats, docks, etc., on the Potomac River (Potomac represented by blue oilcloth); characters either living at or visiting at Mount Vernon.

1. MODELING: Clay figures on the sand table. Lawrence; Anne, his wife; George (age 14); Peter, George's bodyguard; Dinah, his wife, the cook; pickaninnies.

2. CONSTRUCTING: Cardboard houses; manor house, kitchen, weaving room, slave quarters, tool house, afterward Nellie Custis's schoolroom, coach house.

3. DRAWING (scenes from boyhood): George drilling the boys as soldiers. Play fights with the Indians. The field schoolhouse. Hobby, the one-eyed sexton in charge of the school. George riding his pony, Hero, to visit Dicky Lee, attended by Uncle Ben. George reading the new book Dicky Lee sent him by Uncle Sam George surveying. George and Gist attacked by an Indian.

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4. SEWING: Dolls dressed in colonial costumes.

(1) Costumes worn at Mount Vernon:

(a) George Washington (age 14) living with Lawrence at Mount Ver non. Lavender sateen coat and trousers of the Revolutionary period style, with curled powdered wig and tricornered hat; white stockings and low black shoes. (The wig can be made of cotton batting and the hat of black buckram, finished with gold or lavender cockade.)

(b) Sally Fairfax (age 13) visiting at Mount Vernon. A full skirt of green voile with overdress and bodice of white and red figured silkoline; white guimpe; white stockings and low black shoes; straw bonnet-shaped hat, trimmed with red flowers and streamers. The skirt can be made full and round; the overskirt, a scant strip gathered into a skirt band and caught up at the sides. An ordinary short-waisted bodice over a white guimpe laced in front with black ribbons. The hat is trimmed with tissue-paper flowers.

(c) Mrs. Washington, mother of George, a young matron, visits at Mount Vernon.

Costume: Full skirt of plain material with flowered overdress, skirt open in front and draped in the back. White muslin cap with a deep frill gathered full around the crown.

(d) Lawrence, George's older brother, tall, slender, with military bearing, living at Mount Vernon.

Costume: Officer in the king's navy. Colonial costume, with epaulettes on shoulder, gold braid across the chest, and broad sash tied at left side. Tricornered hat.

(e) Old Peter, George's bodyguard and Lawrence's coachman. A big negro.

Costume: Black-wig, white blouse, and white shorts.

(f) Dinah, Peter's wife. A buxom negress, cook.

Costume: Short-waisted blouse, full skirt, muslin cap, big apron.

(g) Pickaninnies, slaves at Mount Vernon, little negroes.
Costumes: Black wig and gay-colored blouse and shorts.

(2) Costumes worn at the old field school:

(a) Hobby, the indentured schoolmaster, with one leg and a cane, one eye, black patch over the other.

Costume: A shabby planter's costume; cutaway coat and tricornered hat, both in black; soiled wig.

(b) William Bustle, the farmer boy, a big bully.

Costume: Long blouse of brown cambric fringed around the bottom and around the collar. Coonskin cap with tail hanging down behind. (c) George and Dicky Lee, the planter's sons.

Costume: Dressed like their fathers-cutaway coat, knee breeches, tricornered hat, buckles on shoes.

(3) Costumes worn on the first surveying expedition:

(a) George in ranger costume. Fringed blouse, tricornered hat.

(b) Big Bear, a young Indian prince and a group of young Indians. Costume: Long trousers, fringed sides and bottoms, long belted blouse, fringed around the lower edge. Indian wig with shaved head, tuft of hair in center of scalp and two feathers thrust through it.

NOTE.-These costumes may be made of cloth or of crêpe paper. Pictures and patterns may be copied from pattern books of fancy dress issued by pattern houses, for sale at pattern counters in dry-goods stores for 25 cents.

See also Childhood Days in Washington's Time, a pageant issued free by the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, Washington, D. C.