b. Write two sentences by adding more words to the following. Use also is and are, was and were, or has and have.1

C. COMPOSITION - ORIGINAL-THE SENSES, THE GATEWAYS OF THE MIND.

How do we gain our knowledge of the world about us? How many senses have we? Name them. (Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching.) Has every one all these senses? What do we say of a person that cannot see or hear? Through what sense do we learn to know and enjoy form, color, size, motion, pictures, statuary? How may we gain knowledge through the eyes besides observing? (Reading.) Through what sense do we learn to know odors and enjoy perfumes? Through what sense may we recognize sounds and enjoy music? Through what sense do we know tastes and enjoy pleasant ones? Through what sense may we know the feeling of things? Are some things more pleasant to touch than others?

1 NOTE, Teacher - Begin this work orally in the class-room, call particular attention to number in group 1 and to tense in group 2. Example.

The bottle is empty.
The bottles are empty.
The kitten has died.

The bottle was empty.
The bottles were empty.
The kittens have died.

96. WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Write your composition by answering the questions and following the directions given below.

1. How many senses have we?

Name them.

2. What would we know of the outside world without them?

3. Through what two senses do we get the most pleasure?

4. Should we miss much enjoyment without our

senses?

5. What enjoyment should we miss?

6. Should we observe and listen carefully?

CI. LETTERS — ORIGINAL – INVITATION

AND ANSWER.

Write a note inviting a friend to spend an afternoon with you. The following points must be mentioned.1

1. Opening. It would give me great pleasure to have you spend, or I am longing to see you, can you not

come to see me next,

or Come over to-morrow afternoon; we are going to have great fun, and I want you to enjoy it with us.

2. What day and hour?

3. What to do?

4. Close. Is answer expected?

Caution. Be careful to get a good opening. I have given you some suggestions, try to improve on them. Remember that no child should give or accept an invitation without his mother's permission.

1 NOTE, Teacher -- When the letter or composition is written in school, outlines, the result of oral work, should be placed on the board and left there while the children are writing. Do this until they have learned how to make them for themselves.

On the other side of your paper, answer the invitation you just written. The following points must be mentioned.

1. Opening. Letter received.

2. Thanks for the invitation.

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have

3. Close. Can accept or cannot (why not?), thanks for being remembered.

In case you decline, state your reason so as not to appear indifferent to your friend's kindness. If you are not free to go on the day named, you might suggest another day; if so, ask if it will be convenient.

CII. WORDS THAT TELL WHAT THINGS DO. Read the following sentences.

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I play. I eat. I study. I learn.

I obey.

دو

Are there any names used? What word takes the place of a name? The words "I" thou," "he," "she," "it," "we," "you and they" are words used instead of names. you know any other words that may be used instead of names?

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97. WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Do

Write the sentences given above, as if speaking of one of your schoolmates, as, "he plays," "she plays," "you play," or more we play," they play." Add more words to make Models:

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the sentences fuller.

He plays tag.
She plays the piano.
Do you play cards?

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We play a new game.

I know that they play in school.
Do you study hard?

CIII. COMPOSITION - ORIGINAL-THE RAIN

DROP'S JOURNEY.

Have you ever watched the rain-drops pattering against the window-pane, and wondered whence they came and whither they are going? Where does the rain come from? When it falls, where does it go? Does it remain there? What becomes of it? What takes the water up, and What causes it to fall again?

in what form?

What does this do for the earth?

Notice the three kinds. Try

Read the sentences given below. to form a sentence like one of these to begin your composition. Have you ever watched the snowy clouds sail over the blue sky?

The clouds hold the rain for the thirsty earth.

How wonderful is the rain! It makes everything grow.

98. WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Write your composition. The following words will help you.

In answering this question you have named something and told what that something is doing.

99. WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Write answers to the following questions. In number one use I, he, she, we or they.

Caution. Be sure to make each sentence a complete thought.

1. Who is talking?

2. What is blowing?

4. What was rattling?

3. Who was singing?

5. What is shining?

6. Who is working?

Memory Gem.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.

CV. COMPOSITION-MODEL AND REPRO

Read the following verse.

DUCTION.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

- Lord Byron.

Read the following story twice. Look in the dictionary for the meaning of any word that you do not understand. Find out when and where the Revolutionary War was fought, what people took part in it, what caused it, and the result.

NATHAN HALE.

During the Revolutionary War, after Washington's retreat from Long Island in September, 1776, he needed to know something about the strength of the British fortifications. Captain Nathan Hale, a fine young American officer of twenty-one, who had formerly been a schoolteacher, offered to get the information. While inside of the enemy's lines he was taken prisoner, and hanged as a spy. His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Brave Nathan Hale!