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SAMUEL B. ALLISON, Ph.D.
I Robinson with His Parents
II Robinson as an Apprentice
III Robinson's Departure
IV Robinson Far from Home
V The Shipwreck
VI Robinson Saved
VII The First Night on Land
VIII Robinson on an Island
IX Robinson's Shelter
X Robinson Makes a Hat
XI Robinson's Calendar
XII Robinson Makes a Hunting Bag
XIII Robinson Explores the Island
XIV Robinson as a Hunter
XV Robinson's Shoes and Parasol
XVI Getting Fire
XVII Robinson Makes Some Furniture
XVIII Robinson Becomes a Shepherd
XIX Robinson Builds a Home for His Goats
XX Robinson Gets Ready for Winter
XXI How Robinson Lays up a Store of Food
XXII Robinson's Diary
XXIII Robinson is Sick
XXIV Robinson's Bower
XXV Robinson Again Explores His Island
XXVI Robinson and His Birds
XXVII Robinson Gets Fire
XXVIII Robinson Makes Baskets
XXIX Robinson Becomes a Farmer
XXX Robinson as Potter
XXXI Robinson as Baker
XXXII Robinson as Fisherman
XXXIII Robinson Builds a Boat
XXXIV Robinson as a Sailor
XXXV A Discovery
XXXVI The Landing of the Savages
XXXVII Robinson as Teacher
XXXVIII Another Shipwreck
XXXIX Saving Things from the Ship
XL The Return of the Savages
XLI Deliverance at Last
XLII Robinson at Home
"An American Robinson Crusoe" is the outcome of many years ofexperience with the story in the early grades of elementary schools.It was written to be used as a content in giving a knowledge of thebeginning and development of human progress. The aim is not just tofurnish an interesting narrative, but one that is true to the courseof human development and the scientific and geographical facts of theisland on which Robinson is supposed to have lived.
The excuse for departing so widely from the original story is to befound in the use which was desired to be made of it. The story herepresented is simply the free adaptation of the original narrative tothe demand for a specific kind of content in a form which would beinteresting to the children.
The teacher is and should be justified in using with entire freedomany material accessible for the ends of instruction.
The text as here given has been published with an introduction andsuggestive treatments as a Teacher's Manual for Primary Grades—"TheTeacher's Robinson Crusoe." Explicit directions and ample suggestionsare made for the use of the story as material for instruction in allthe language arts, drawing, social history, and the manual arts.
Published by the Educational Publishing Company.
There once lived in the city of New York, a boy by the name ofRobinson Crusoe. He had a pleasant home. His father and mother werekind to him and sent him to school. T