A BIT OF SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

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The Patience of Madam How

Most patient indeed is Madam How. She takes just as much pains to make an acorn as to make a peach. She takes just as much pains about the acorn which the pig eats, as about the acorn which will grow into a tall oak, and help to build a great ship. She took just as much pains, again, about the acorn which you crushed under your foot just now and which you fancy will never come to anything. Madam How is wiser than that. She knows that it will come to something. She will find some use for it, as she finds a use for everything. CHARLES KINGSLEY.

Rule. The first word and every important word in the title of a book, magazine, newspaper, picture, or written paper should begin with a capital letter.

Exercises. I. Discuss the writing and placing of titles in your written work. Find out exactly how your teacher wishes this done.

II. Copy titles to be found in this book, as follows:

1. Of a story. 2. Of a picture.

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3. Of a poem.

A BIT OF SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

Making and Arranging Sentences

I. What interesting things happened in school this morning? this afternoon?

Write sentences answering the above questions.

Speak of things in the order in which they happened.
Give the paper a proper title.

II. Each pupil in the class may choose one of the following and write a sentence or a group of sentences about it:

1. The school.

4. The newcomers.

2. The teacher. 3. The class reciting. 5. The girls at their desks.

What does each of the following sentences do?

1. Hans Christian Andersen was a great story-teller.
2. Common things made him think of delightful tales.
3. Andersen lived in Denmark.

Geoffroy.

DECLARATIVE SENTENCES

4. For many years he was poor and friendless.

5. His stories gained friends and glory for him at last.

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6. His books have been translated into all the languages of Europe.

Each sentence given above makes a statement from which you learn a fact about Andersen or his stories. Sentences that make statements are called declarative sentences. What mark is used at the end

of each ?

Remember. A declarative sentence is a sentence that makes a statement.

Every declarative sentence should end with a period.

Oral Exercises.-I. Name a poet whom you admire and make interesting statements about him. II. Make three statements about each of these:Atlantic Ocean, September, iron, steam, electricity, bananas. What are sentences that make statements called? What kind of sentences have you studied in this lesson ?

Written Exercises. I. Write from dictation the sentences given for study.

II. Write four statements about square measure, its uses or facts in regard to it.

III. Write on the blackboard the most interesting statements made about each topic named in Oral Exercise II. Arrange the statements in the best order.

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Each one busy with his prayers,
"We are lost!" the captain shouted,
As he staggered down the stairs.

But his little daughter whispered,

As she took his icy hand,
"Is not God upon the ocean,
Just the same as on the land?"

Then we kissed the little maiden,
And we spoke in better cheer;
And we anchored safe in harbor

When the morn was shining clear.

-JAMES T. FIELDS.

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