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Textile

  1. Talk over how textiles are important to man.
  2. Do ONE of the following:
    1. Visit a textile plant or school. Report on what you saw.
    2. Explain the main steps in making a fiber into cloth. Name the machines used in each. Tell what each machine does.
    3. Describe four ways of adding colors to textiles.
  3. Do ONE of the following:
    1. Get one sample in each of the three major classes of woven fabrics:
      • clothing
      • home use
      • industrial.
    2. Get one sample of knit or double-knit fabric. Compare these to those that were woven.
  4. Do TWO of the following:
    1. Show one good way to test fibers for recognition.
    2. Waterproof a piece of cloth.
    3. Weave a piece of cloth. Use a simple loom that you have made yourself.
    4. Define 10 of the following terms: fiber, filament, yarn, tufting, nonwoven, tricot, plastic, Jacquard, full fashioned, Greige goods, bleaching, finishing, mercerization, screen printing, roller printing, durable press, sanforizing, preshrunk, water repellent, and fire retardant.
  5. Get small samples of two of the following natural fibers: cotton, wool, silk, or linen. Get two of the following classes of man-made fibers: rayon, nylon, polyester, glass fiber, and acrylic. Tell how two of these are different. Give the advantages of each.
  6. Talk over or make a written report on jobs in five main branches of the textile industry.

Theater

  1. See or read three full-length plays. These can be from the stage, movies, or television. Write a review of each. Comment on the story, acting, and staging.
  2. Write a one-act play. It must take 8 minutes or more to put on. It must have a main character, conflict, and a climax.
  3. Do THREE of the following:
    1. Act a major part in a full-length play; or act a part in three one-act plays.
    2. Direct a play. Cast, rehearse, and stage it. The play must be 10 or more minutes long.
    3. Design the setting for a play. Make a model of it.
    4. Design the costumes for five characters in one play set in a time before 1900.
    5. Show skill in stage makeup. Make up yourself or a friend as an old man or woman, and Indian, a clown, or a monster as directed.
    6. Help with the building of scenery for one full-length or two one-act plays.
    7. Design the lighting for a play; or handle the lighting for a play under guidance.
  4. Pantomime any ONE of the following picked by your counselor.
    1. You have come into a large room. It is full of pictures, furniture, other things of interest.
    2. As you are getting on as bus, your books fall into a puddle. By the time you pick them up, the bud has driven off.
    3. You have failed a school test. You are talking with your teacher. He does not buy your story.
    4. You are at a camp with a new Scout. You try to help him pass a cooking test. He learns very slowly.
    5. You are at a banquet. The meat is good. You don't like the vegetable. The dessert is ice cream.
  5. Explain the following: proscenium, central or arena staging, spotlight, floodlight, flies, highlight, lowlight, scene paint, stage brace, cleat, stage crew, batten foyer.
  6. Do two short entertainment features that you could give either alone or with others for a troop meeting or campfire.

Traffic Safety

  1. Do the following:
    1. Explain and answer questions about the seriousness and the size of the street and highway traffic safety problem in the United States, your state, and your community.
      1. Make a scrapbook containing 10 newspaper articles about serious traffic crashes.
      2. List what driving and/or safety rules were violated. Tell how these crashes might have been prevented.
      3. Give one other cause which might have contributed to each crash.
    3. Tell why driving while impaired by alcohol or other drugs is such an important problem.
    4. Explain how highway design, road conditions, and roadside hazards relate to the occurrence and seriousness of traffic crashes.
    5. Check tires for wear and proper inflation.
  2. Describe two safety programs designed to control and reduce the serious effects of the highway traffic safety problem.
  3. Do the following:
    1. List 10 automotive features that reduce the seriousness of injuries when crashes occur.
    2. Tell why safety features are important when buying a car.
    3. Demonstrate how to adjust lap and shoulder belts. Explain why it is important to wear them at all times.
  4. Do the following to show your knowledge of car care for safety maintenance:
    1. Check operation of all exterior lights.
    2. Check operation of all interior lights.
    3. Locate a fuse or circuit breaker on the light or horn circuit.
    4. Check windshield wiper blade and smear-and-clear test. Replace the blade, if needed, and tests.
  5. Do the following:
    1. In a location away from traffic hazards, measure with a tape measure -- not in a car -- and mark off with stakes the distance that a car may travel during the time needed for decision and reaction, and the braking distance necessary to stop a car traveling 30, 45, and 70 miles an hour on dry pavement. Discuss additional allowance that bad weather and road conditions would require.
    2. Using a bicycle, demonstrate four safe practices common to bicycle and automobile driving.
    3. Using the chart of international traffic signs and control devices, explain the meaning of each.
    4. Demonstrate the difference in visibility at night between bicycle and rider properly lighted and marked with a reflectorized material and a bicycle and rider at night with dark clothing and an unlighted bicycle.
  6. Do ONE of the following:
    1. Observe, study, and prepare a report on one important community activity for traffic safety.
    2. Report on a traffic safety project in which you participated with your troop. post, or school.
    3. Report on an individual project that you carried out in promoting traffic safety.

Truck Transportation

  1. List the major truck lines serving your town.
  2. Tell the importance of trucks in providing freight service to towns served by no other means. Name some towns in your area served only by trucks.
  3. Describe how trucks fit in with other forms of transportation.
  4. Describe the difference between the gasoline engine and the diesel engine that power trucks. List the advantages of each.
  5. Visit a truck terminal and do the following:
    1. Check the use of communications facilities. What means are used? How does a dispatcher control over- the-road trucks? How does he control local trucks?
    2. Find out from the maintenance department the following: How many miles are engines run between overhauls? How do they get better tire life? How are breakdowns prevented? What maintenance work is done by the company? What work is done outside the company?
    3. Talk with a professional truck driver about safety. List five safe-driving rules s/he follows.
  6. Outline the general organization of a truck company. Describe what each department does.
  7. Do the following:
    1. List five jobs with trucking companies. Describe each.
    2. Talk with the safety director or driver supervisor about the requirements for becoming a professional truck driver.
  8. Name five governmental agencies that regulate trucking. Tell what they regulate.
  9. List five different kinds of trucks. Tell the service each gives.
  10. Assume that you are going to ship 100 pounds from your town to another by truck. Explain in writing how you would handle this shipment from your town to a place 500 miles away. Tell when the things are needed. List what truck lines are used. Yell how the shipment is insured for damage. Tell when it must be made if it is to arrive on time.
  11. Define the following terms;
    1. APU
    2. Bill of Lading
    3. Common carrier
    4. Containerization
    5. ETA
    6. Logbook
    7. Fifth wheel
    8. OS&D
    9. LTL
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