Home Economics Courses Of Study For Junior High Schools

Author : United States Bureau of Education
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333559908
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Home Economics Courses of Study for Junior High Schools (Classic Reprint) written by United States Bureau of Education and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Home Economics Courses of Study for Junior High Schools Housewifery lessons should consist of teaching the care of a bed room, table setting, careful dusting, and dishwashing. The spirit and motive of home economics teaching should differ in these grades from those dominating the instruction given in the junior high school. It is concluded 'that a girl entering the seventh grade of school should know how to follow a simple recipe accurately, how to measure food materials correctly, and how to regulate temperatures for boil ing and baking. She should be able to assist dextrously in making a bed, in caring for toilet articles, in setting a table, in dusting a room, in washing dishes, and in putting away fresh and cooked foods. She should be able to sew a straight seam on the sewing machine, cut by a two-piece commercial pattern, baste seams, 'darn her stockings, sew on buttons, and work buttonholes, and also be able to wash and iron small light articles of cotton and linen. She should understand the more elementary facts concerning the right choice of foods, correct food habits, personal hygiene, and care ful use of foods, clothing, and household furnishings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.