ABSTRACT
Toward the close of the year the children in Group VIII had gained in power to hold problems before their minds. They could keep themselves from action for longer and longer periods to consider that action in the light of possible consequences. Group VIII was divided into two sections on the basis of previous school experience. Both divisions studied the European backgrounds of the nations that had established colonies in America. Group VIII-b made a different approach both in history and science. The science teacher thus built up the globe physically at the same time that the history teacher was giving its social and political development. The life of the English people at the beginning of the seventeenth century was briefly reviewed to help the children discover for themselves the reasons for exploration and why the early colonists left the old and sought the new. The chapter discusses the different methods of spinning and weaving fibres and their preparation.
