Show t r ii YI N utes By Dr Wayne Reid Held Superintendent Uncle Remus to Pilgrims Pilgrim's Progress Throughout the past year wide district curriculum committees composed of teachers and some parents and spearheaded principals worked diligently to bolster our curriculum efforts from kindergarten kindergarten kindergarten kin kin- through graduation from high school The year long task in our academic areas of Language Arts reading writing vocabulary grammar etc social studies mathematics and science has been coming together for implementation im under the capable and dynamic leadership of oC Dr Colleen Colton our Director of Curriculum Already minimal objectives for each grade level in each of our elementary schools has been completed and are now being duplicated for distribution This project of minimal competencies in the academic areas most assuredly will help increase our scores on national examinations We are now pulling together the same basics for the secondary school students at their grade levels This project should be completed by the end of next month and be quickly distributed to the teachers for Cor implementation this year Therefore all grade levels willbe will willbe willbe be closely coordinated and one skill will build upon another A student may transfer from one school in our district and be assured that tha t the next school will willbe willbe willbe be teaching up to the same ex ex- In addition a new report card for elementary grades is being developed to help parents understand understand understand un un- more fully those areas of expertise or deficiency that a achild achild achild child must master to graduate from that class Parents now can become a central figure once again in improving the academic status of their children A specially-designed specially newsletter will be given toe tov parents at the first conference which will help them know what is definitely expected of their child in that grade One of the brightest aspects of this new project of academic improvement lies in the field of Language Arts Whereas one of the most important ingredients of all education tion is the skill of reading and reading good literature our district will now require certain poems and books to be read by each child This list was obtained from several sources including the Readers Reader's Digest Suggested Best Childrens Children's Books an assortment of college professors in our state the National Education Association and other well- well respected indicators of the best poems and books by grade level For your information the following will be required of each cach child in our district by grade level Kindergarten Selected Kindergarten Selected nursery nursery nur nur- sery rhymes Uncle Remus His Friends Harris First Grade Grade Visit Visit from St St. Nicholas Moore Pied Piper Browning Where the Wild Things Are Charlottes Charlotte's Web White Second Grade The Grade The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Pussy Lear The Wizard of Oz Baum Bawn Third Grade Trees Grade Trees Kilmer Little House in the Big Woods Wilder Fourth Grade Little Grade Little Boy Blue Field Tom Sawyer Twain Little House on the Prairie Wilder Fifth Grade Grade In In Flanders Flander's Field McCrae Old Yeller Gipson Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls tRawls Sixth Grade Wreck Grade Wreck of the Hesperus Longfellow Lets Let's Build a Railroad Seager Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain Island of th the Blue Dolphins ODell Seventh grade Opportunity grade Opportunity Ingalls j Treasure Island Stevenson Johnny Tremaine Forbes Eighth grade grade America America for forMe forMe forMe Me Van Dyke Paul Reveres Revere's Ride Longfellow Julie of the Wolves George Little Women Alcott Ninth Grade Grade Hiawatha's Hiawatha's Childhood Longfellow Aesop's Fables Robinson Crusoe Defoe Tenth Grade Grade Charge Charge of the Light Brigade Tennyson Love of Country Scott Last of the Mohicans Cooper Two Years Before the Mast Dana Eleventh Grade Grade O 0 Captain My Captain Whitman If Kipling Ivanhoe Scott The Oregon Trail Parkman Twelfth Grade The Grade The Happy Warrior Wordsworth The Raven Poe Soliloquy from Hamlet Shakespeare Pilgrims Progress Bunyan Centennial Michener |