Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts
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"Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts" is an official guide published in the early 20th century. This handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for the Girl Scouts movement, outlining training, principles, and history designed to empower young girls. The main themes include self-sufficiency, community service, and personal development through various scouting activities. The opening of the handbook begins with an introduction by Robert Baden-Powell, explaining the origins of Scouting
for girls and how it evolved to include young women wanting their own distinct opportunities rather than simply imitating the boys’ version. It details the historical context, emphasizing the roles that women played on frontiers and in wartime, which inspired the establishment of the Girl Scouts. The early sections also lay out the foundational principles, mottoes, and promises that guide the values and practices of Scout members, setting a tone of preparedness, loyalty, and community service as primary objectives for those involved in the program. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Girl Scouts of the United States of America |
|---|---|
| Editor | Bacon, Josephine Daskam, 1876-1961 |
| Title | Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts |
| Credits |
Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)Music by Linda Cantoni. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | HS: Social sciences: Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. |
| Subject | Girl Scouts -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 28490 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-28490-3 |
| Release Date | Apr 4, 2009 |
| Last Update | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1852 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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