56. Who were the sea kings of history? 57. Who are supposed to have built the queer old tower of Newport? Describe it. 58. Who was Anne Hutchinson? her? What became of 59. What did De Gourgues do with his Spanish prisoners? 60. What did the Indians use for mirrors? REMARKS. Have the pupils report and answer such Queer Queries as they may have found. Collect their note-books, and after examining them carefully, return them with commendation or criticism, as may be best suited to the individual. Let one of your many cares be to ever insist upon neatness in the appearance of all written work. REVIEW. 51. Write the names of the explorers, placing those belonging to different nations in certain columns. Pronounce each name and mark the accent. 52. Write the blackboard form for claims. 53. What was the extent of Discovery Period? Give date of beginning and ending. 54. Write the blackboard form for Virginia. For Massachusetts. Write a short sketch of Roger Williams. 55. What is meant by the Pilgrims? By the Puritans? DIRECTIONS.—1. Bound Connecticut and locate Windsor and New Haven. 2. Read all you can find concerning Thomas Hooker. 3. Ditto the Pequod War. QUEER QUERIES. 61. What Indian chief ate some flesh from the shoulder of a captive chief? 62. On what day of the week did Columbus discover America? 63. Why was California so called? 64. What is the oldest college in the United States? 65. What did Canonicus send to Governor Bradford and what did he return? 66. "Who ate Roger Williams?" 67. What did Captain Smith take from the Indians and hold until they filled his boat with corn? 68. Who named New England? 69. What Indian marked his flight by hanging hands, heads and scalps on poles? 70. Who was taken for an angel in the Indian attack on Hadley? Why are the people of New England called Yankees? REVIEW. 56. Rewrite all the blackboard forms in order, beginning with that of the Periods. 57. After writing all the forms recite the outline as suggested by them. REMARK. If not familiar with the forms at this point you should spend some time reviewing them. DIRECTIONS. -1. Read 11 Dutch. Peter Minuit. your authors to determine why the date 1623 is adopted as that of the first settlement rather than that of 1613 or 1614. 2. Read all you can command concerning the four Dutch governors of New York. 3. Determine from your texts why the English were able to capture New Amsterdam so easily. 4. If the "History of New York," by Washington Irving, can be found in the neighborhood, borrow it and read all he says about the "Knickerbockers." 5. Explain what is meant by a royal province. QUEER QUERIES. 71. Which of the Dutch governors had a wooden leg? 72. What was Hooker's guide through the wilderness in his journey to Connecticut? 73. What did Minuit pay the Indians for Manhattan Is land? 74. Why is Wall street so called? 75. Who was the little "Indian Fighter" of Massachusetts? 76. Who said, "I thank God there are no free schools or printing presses, and I hope that we shall not have them these three hundred years"? 77. Why did Bacon burn Jamestown? 78. What was done with the Indians who were carried to Europe? 79. Who said, "We must burn them"? 80. Who said, "Sir, if we are interrupted again I will make the sun shine through you in a moment”? REVIEW. 58. Write the blackboard form for each colony as far as learned. 59. Write the form for the first date, first settlement, etc., of each colony to one studied. 60. Why was each colony so called? 61. Write a brief sketch of King Philip. Pocahontas. Peter Stuyvesant. 62. Write all you can about John Smith. Balboa. De Soto. 63. Write a list of explorers and give their nationalities. 64. What averted the war threatened by Powhattan and the English in 1612? 65. Describe Bacon's Rebellion. 66. What were the peculiar features of the Maryland, charter? 67. What is meant by Mason and Dixon's line? 68. How did the term "patroon" originate? 69. When was St. Augustine founded? Port Royal? Jamestown? Plymouth? New Amsterdam? 70. Why was New York called New Netherlands? What does it mean? REMARK.-The secret of success in memorizing dates depends solely upon their repetition in connection with the key |