A Teacher's Notebook

Lora A. Bing, who resided at 804 Mills Street in the early twentieth century, was a teacher in the Perkins and Margaretta Schools in 1901 and 1902. (Her brother was George J. Bing, a carriage maker in Sandusky in the early 1900s, the subject of a previous blog post.) In the Schools Collection of the Follett House Museum, is a notebook that Miss Bing used at that time. Most likely she taught a variety of subjects to her students. 

Here is a page from Miss Bing’s notebook which covers highlights of the various Presidents of the United States. Her notes end with the Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the current President at the time of her writing.

This description of a “Peculiar Sunset” was dated September 15, 1902:

This page has prompts for students, which provided the youngsters with suggestions for their writing assignment.

In this “tense tree,” the teacher describes various examples of past, present and future tense.

After Lora Bing married Paul Retzke in 1907, the couple moved to Toledo, Ohio, where she became a teacher in the Toledo Public Schools.