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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
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THE TEACHING OF HISTORY BY PLAYS 37 Sea maneuvers were popular, and we refought many abattle between English and Dutch. For these I allowedthe boys to bring their soap boxes on wheels, generally
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preferring those with guiding wheels in front. It wasgreat fun when the boys maneuvered into position (aftermany capsizings and accidents) with their cannon and fire-arms on board. Once the Dutch leader had his box boatturned into the semblance of a real ship by covering it 38 THE DRAMATIC METHOD OF TEACHING with cardboard over a cane-work skeleton, and riggingmasts and sails of paper. To add the realistic touch eachboy had plenty of chains on his boat to rattle when hedropped or weighed anchor. The next morning, long be-fore nine oclock, I surprised all the first-class boys withheads together over a history with illustrations, lookingup material for another bout with Van Tromp. The soapboxes on wheels (cube-sugar boxes too, sometimes) wereone of our, most valuable assets. The boys picked thewheels up from ragmen or marine stores for a few centseach, and found them very handy in their own little gar-dens, using the boxes as wheelbarrows. Anon they didduty for ships on voyages of disco

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