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Title: The dramatic method of teaching
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Finlay-Johnson, Harriet Cyr, Ellen M., d. 1920, ed
Subjects: Drama in education Teaching Schools
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ound which was now their Cumberland ) with a violet growing in it. It was reallya rockery which they had made years before for their firstnature study. One said : Oh ! there s a beautiful water-fall. See how it sparkles and foams! And anotherchimed in, Look at those great bowlders fleeced withmoss, and those shady trees dipping into the water! Oh, I am sure, added a third, this is the nook whichWordsworth wrote of, where the violet of five summersreappears and fades unseen by any human eye. On another afternoon they arranged a most realisticvisit to the Falls of Lodore, to take place in their play-time, and prepared for during their dinner hour. Sometime before this they had dug a deep trench along oneside of their playground in order to drain off the stagnantwater which interfered with play and drill. At the lowerend of the trench they had knocked a hole in the boun-dary wall and inserted a drainpipe, which, when the trenchwas full, caused a miniature waterfall into the field outside
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149 GEOGRAPHY I 5I the wall. The boys dug away the bank under the drain-pipe to emphasize this. But on the day of the great visitto the Falls of Lodore the weather was cloudless andthere was every indication that we should have an emptytrench. But there had to be a Falls of Lodore ; so acouncil was held, and the boys overcame the difficulty.They carried out an old blackboard, placed it against thewall over the trench in a slanting position, and heapedgreat stones all over it — to hide the fact that it was ablackboard, and also to give an appearance of realism tothe (t splashing and dashing mentioned in the poem.One boy filled a tin bathtub with water. At the appointedtime, when the travelers, armed with the book containingSoutheys poem, arrived at the spot, the boy (who hadfilled the bathtub and raised it to the top of the wall,where he sat astride holding it) slowly tipped it over, andbehold ! the Falls of Lodore. The same part of the playground was admirably suitedto the purposes

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