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Copy the following sentences, putting in a form of the verb teach or the verb learn.

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5. Helen Keller also to speak with her lips.

6. Miss Fuller

7. Helen

her how to speak.

by putting her fingers on the lips of

the person speaking.

I keep six honest serving men;

They taught me all I knew;

Their names are What, and Why, and When,
And How, and Where, and Who.

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A GRAMMAR PLAY

LIE AND LAY

-Kipling.

Lie is discovered on the ground. His face is pale, his clothing, torn. He looks as if he had been in a hard-fought battle.

Behind him is a wall, broken in one place.

Enter, on Lie's side of the wall, Mary, a school girl, walking slowly. When she sees Lie, she runs towards him.

Mary: What is the matter? Why are you lying there? Who are you?

Lie (feebly): I am King Lie. My cousin Lay, reinforced by a crowd of careless boys and girls, made that breach in the wall that separates our kingdoms, invaded my territory, and left me lying here helpless, deserted by my followers.

Mary: How can I help you?

Lie: How am I to know whether you are friend or foe?

Mary: Hearken! (She recites softly but clearly.)

I lie down to sleep

In my bed;

You lie down to sleep,

Drowsy head!

He lies down to sleep,

So he said!

We lie down to sleep;

Softly creep!

You lie down to sleep!

Ne'er a peep!

They lie down to sleep;

Silence keep!

Lie: Welcome, friend! I did not dare to trust you before I made sure of your loyalty to me.

Mary: Lie there and rest. You have many friends among the children. I go to bring them hither.

(She goes out, then re-enters with other children.) John (to Lie): Why do you lie there so weak and sorrowful, friend? We have come to make you glad. We will lay your enemy low.

Helen: Mary has told us how badly you have been treated. But come! Let us help you. You have lain there long enough,

Lie (partly rising): I feel myself growing stronger among such good friends. But are you quite sure that Lay will not return and take me prisoner?

Frank: He may lay plans to destroy you, but we will keep him within his own territory. He shall not harm you!

Lie: But he is very strong! He is always busy, and says that I am of no use because I am a verb of rest, so he influences people to obey him instead of me. Children (in chorus): Here he comes!

(Lay appears at the breach in the wall.)

Children: Halt, enemy of Lie!

Lay (seeing that he is outnumbered): I surrender! I lay down my weapons. The children I taught to abuse my cousin Lie have deserted me. I will henceforth keep within my own territory. (He turns away.) Mary: Come, Lie and Lay, be friends and allies! Join hands across the wall.

John: But let me warn you, Lay, that you are not to poach on Lie's lands.

(Lay and Lie shake hands and Lay departs.)

Lie: Come, children, let us celebrate our victory with a song.

zie and the children join hands and chant together.) I lie here at break of day,

Watching squirrels at their play;
And at evening I shall lie,
While the winds go whisp'ring by,

Singing their soft lullaby.

Sweetly lie; softly lie,
Sleeping the long night thro'.
Lie, lie, as we sweep by,
Keeping our watch o'er you.

Lie while the clouds go sailing by,

Lie while the stars keep watch on high,

Lie 'neath the skies so blue;

Lie my little one, lie my pretty one, lie!

(Last eight lines to the tune of Sweet and Low.)

Curtain

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BUILDING A VOCABULARY

A GENTLE KNIGHT

It was springtime when Gareth

lot to become one of Arthur's knights. he was a king's son, he did not

-C. I. O.

down to Came

But, although like a prince.

at

on foot, he was in shabby raiment, and like a tiller of the soil. When he Arthur's court, he did not to be

He

he

He

year.

to

His mother had was too true and honest to in the king's kitchen. the meals.

fire and hearth. He

and

to be made a knight. in the king's kitchen for a him to do that, and he her wish. So Gareth

He

He

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at his work and never once

because his tasks were heavy. No matter how mean or humble the service, he it cheerfully. Later he became one of Arthur's bravest knights.

Fill each blank in the story with a verb chosen from the list that follows. Read your story to the class.

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The class working together will suggest other verbs that might be used in place of each one in the list. Write these new verbs on the blackboard.

story again, using verbs from the new list.

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Read the

TELLING STORIES OF GREAT MEN AND

WOMEN

Tell a story about one of the following men or women. Make it as interesting as you can.

Marco Polo

Joan of Arc

Columbus
Balboa

Ponce de Leon

John Smith
Walter Raleigh
Roger Williams
Benjamin Franklin
Benedict Arnold
Robert Morris
Thomas Jefferson
Frances Willard
Stonewall Jackson
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Roosevelt
Admiral Dewey
Marshal Joffre

Robert Fulton

Florence Nightingale

Clara Barton

Abraham Lincoln

Robert E. Lee

George Washington
Lafayette

Nathan Hale
Daniel Boone
U. S. Grant

Julia Ward Howe
Thomas Edison
Marconi

Woodrow Wilson

John J. Pershing
General Foch

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