One good plan is to allow each student to make up 50 percent of his record during the progress of the work, by bringing in, say, five carefully prepared papers.

One of these may be a _resume_ of matter pertaining to his local organization; another may be an account of a trial observed, or other governmental work which the student may have seen performed; a third may be a synopsis of the president's message; the fourth, a general tabulation of the constitution; the fifth, a review of some book on government, or a paper on a subject of the student's own choice.
Among reference books, every school should have at least the Revised Statutes of the state and of the United States, the Legislative Manual of the state, a good political almanac for the current year, the Congressional Directory, and Alton's Among the Lawmakers.
A Teachers' Manual, giving answers to the pertinent questions contained herein, and many useful hints as to the details of teaching Civics, is published in connection with this book.
TO STUDENTS.
You will notice in chapter one that at the close of nearly every paragraph questions are thrown in.

They are inserted to help you cultivate in yourself the very valuable habit of rigid self-examination.

We are all liable to assume too soon that we have the thought.

Not to mar the look of the page, the questions are thenceforward placed only at the close of the chapters.
You will soon discover that these questions are so framed as to require you to read not only on the lines and _between_ them, but also right down _into_ them.