Write a description of a game that you have played, referring to your diagram.

Write a sentence in answer to each of these questions:

With what kind of letter do you begin each sentence?

What mark do you put at the end?

Count and read the sentences in your description. Arrange them in the best order.

The Notebook

Each member of the class should have a notebook for language lessons alone.

Write on the first page of your notebook your full name, the name of your school, of the town or city you live in, and the day of the week, the month, and the year on which you begin to use it. Choose a verse and write it on the title-page as a motto.

Here is the title-page of a student's notebook:

HELEN HILL ALDRICH

Longfellow School, Portland, Maine

MONDAY, March 19, 1906

When Duty whispers low, "Thou must,'
The youth replies, “I can.”

VIII

THE CARPENTER

Arranging Sentences

Visit a carpenter's shop, if you can, and see how he does his work.

Conversation :

What does the carpenter do?

Where does he work?

Name as many of the tools he uses as you can. What has the carpenter done for you ?

Name all the things you can, made by the carpenter, that we could not get along without.

If there were no carpenters, what would we have to do without?

Which is more useful, the carpenter or the blacksmith? Why?

Which would you rather be? Why?
Describe a carpenter's shop.

Describe some of the carpenter's tools.

Tell all you can about the carpenter and his work. If you have ever seen a carpenter make anything, tell how he made it.

Tell the story of your visit to the carpenter's shop.

Expressive Activities:

Make models of as many carpenter's tools as you can, and fit up a carpenter's shop on the sand table.

Written Exercise:

Give sentences about the carpenter for the teacher to write on the blackboard. Discuss them. Arrange them in the best order and copy them.

Conversation:

IX

A FLOWER AND ITS STORY

Capitals beginning Sentences

(1)

THE SUNFLOWER

Did you ever see a sunflower? Where? Describe it.

Paint a picture of it.

If you can find one growing, watch it several times during a bright, sunny day and see in what different directions the flowers face. Can you tell why they face in different directions?

If you cannot watch a flower growing, your teacher will tell you about it.

If some one can bring a blossom with its stalk into the class, you can study it and paint a picture of it, but you cannot see from this the most interesting thing about the sunflower, which is that it turns its face toward the sun.

Plant sunflower seeds in your own garden or your school garden and watch the growth of the plants.

(2)

THE STORY OF CLYTIE

[To be read to the children by the teacher.]

Clytie was a lovely water nymph. She was tall and slender, with soft black eyes and golden hair. She loved the glorious sun god Apollo. Day after day, from morning until evening, she would stand upon the shore of a beautiful lake and gaze upon the face of the god as he rode through the heavens in his shining golden chariot, turning her face slowly as he passed from east to west.

Apollo loved the gentle Clytie and used to look down upon her and warm her heart with his smile, but he could not come to her, for he must guide his fierce horses through the sky.

At length the maiden grew wan and thin and was slowly wasting away. So Apollo in pity decided to change her into a flower which could stand all day and gaze upon him without suffering. So her feet became roots, growing fast in the ground; her slender body was changed to a long, slender stem; her eyes became the center of the flower, and her yellow curls, a golden fringe of petals; and Clytie was a flower.

This is why the sunflower all summer long stands upright in the garden and turns her face toward the sun as he passes from east to west.

Tell the story, as many telling as possible, using the "guide words." Be sure to tell about:

Do you think that Apollo was kind to Clytie? Do you think Clytie was happier as a sunflower than as Clytie?

Did you ever see eyes in the sunflower? If you ever do, think of Clytie.

(4)

Read the first two sentences in "The Story of Clytie." Whom do they describe? Let one pupil copy them upon the blackboard, while the rest watch, ready to make corrections if needed.

Look at different sentences in the story.
With what kind of letter do they all begin?

Write in your notebooks:

Every sentence begins with a capital.