Excerpt from Introduction and Use of the Graded Lessons International Course: Junior Manual In 1902 the International Primary Department, of which Mrs. J. W. Barnes was then the secretary, Steps Toward issued an outline of graded supple a Graded mental lessons. They were intended to Curriculum supplement the uniform lessons by giving a certain amount of information and passages for memorization which it was thought that every child should know before he reached the age of thir teen. These lessons, used in thousands of schools, aroused a desire for lessons selected with the needs of the pupils in mind, and at the same time created an increased demand for a graded curriculum to take the place of the uniform lessons, and of these graded supplemental lessons, which were known to be, at best, but a makeshift. 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.