Dear Jay The "New England Primer 1996" is nearly a reprint of the 1843 edition printed by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society in Cornhill, Boston. I updated it to the New King James as much as possible. There are several Alphabets in the various Primers. The missing letters in the 1843 edition were "J" & "V" and they were missing from "AN ALPHABET OF LESSONS FOR CHILDREN" on page 15. This question also puzzled me as I was rewriting/reprinting the 1843 edition. However after deciding to "add" them to my book to make it complete, I encountered a unique problem that caused me to not "add" them too! I did not find a source or reference for this answer but I will give you my best assumption as stated in Footnote 12 from my book, which is quoted below."12 There are two letter-phrases missing from the list i.e. J & V in this book and at least one other primer. To include them caused the problem of selection that other printers probably experienced. The obvious letters to start with are "J" for Jesus & "V" for Verily [in the KJV], which Jesus used to highly emphasize the Truth. However, there are 237 references beginning with Jesus and 61 for Verily. All of these are in the four Gospels [Mt., Mk, Lk. & Jn.] which is only 143 pages of easy reading in the Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible by Thomas Nelson Publishers."The implication from the footnote is: How does one select just 1 verse from 237 about Jesus himself and just 1 verse from 61 of his direct quotes beginning with Verily??
Perhaps your students could write an extra credit paper on which two verses they would select and explain why. If you are in a public school and need some legal support for this check out these web pages of resources: https://hisways.org/steward/Rel-Guid.htm . https://hisways.org/liberty/index.htm
Dear Bernie,6. ... My topic is the interconnection of religion and education through the New England Primer. Thanks to answer me. Julie ...
I'm not an expert about that information but I think your findings will surprise a lot of people. For a treatise on this view see http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/education-a.htm The Grandfather Report (web archive) which suggests that the unionization of teachers in 1960`s as the main cause of the failure of public education. Personally I think the seeds of failure go back to the 1900's & Dewey's Progressive (Atheistic) Education; for more on this see "The Parent's State of Education Message" and supporting articles.
Another source for a quick study on reading is the following site where you can get reprints of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers: https://abaptist.org/catalogs/homeschool/Homeschool.html . [ no frames = https://abaptist.org/catalogs/homeschool/McGuffey.html ] They provide a short comparison of the Eclectic Readers to today's reading levels.
Here's the famous 8th Grade graduating test of Salinas, Kansas of 1895 with reference links and qualifying comments at the bottom. I hope that helps.
Dear Julie ...,7. ... lesson plans. ?
There is a lot of information on our web site like our book review at: the Mini Book Review
which ends with the reviews of 5 video tapes that cover the character of our Constitutional Documents and our Founding Fathers who wrote them.
Our "colonial" pages have Christian spiritual quotations from our Founding Fathers. There is a free online Sex Education Lesson, that came from words from the New England Primer series that were taught to Primary level children.
I am in New Zealand. I was watching Dr Kent Hovind's evolution teaching, and he showed a copy of the New England Primer. I am interested in using it for schooling my little guys.
I only sell the 1996 edition for USA customers by email here. AndAm I able to buy it?
I sell The 1777 edition by Printable Sales Order [PSO] and all other materials here.
There is no lesson plan that comes with the 1777 edition.What is the lesson planner? Does it come with it?
There is one lesson plan that is included with the 1996 edition in Appendix C. Basically it is just a rough guide to help the parent break down the book by age group into oral (catechism) and word science levels where the parent essentially writes a plan week to week and helps the child memorize the Primer, learn phonics, syllables, vocabulary and theology over several months or years.
There is one lesson plan FREE, online, written by The Rev. Cotton Mather (b. 1663 d.1728) here and/or printable PDF here.
Please see the FAQ #2 here.What is the difference between the 1777 and the 1996? I very much like the 1777.
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