Help from Our Homes

What are some of the words most often misused by your class? Pick out five you should like most to master. Place them on a list, like this:

And so on for the five that you want to watch.

When you have made your list of five, copy it on a cardboard. At the top of this list place the heading:

Help Us Use Good English

Should you like to take this card home and place it where you can see it often, and ask your parents to help you mind what it says?

LESSON 44

Pussy Willow

Note. This lesson should be taken when the first pussy willows are found. The time will vary in different years and in different parts of the country.

What is one of the first things that you see that shows you spring is coming?

Here is a little poem that tells you about the coming of spring.

How long has the pussy willow been asleep?

Who tapped on its door and waked it?

What does it mean when it says the pussy willow opened wide the door?

When the happy children saw the pussy willow, what did they cry?

Have you seen any pussy willows this year? Where did you see them?

Pussy Willow Fun

Should you like to draw a picture of a pussy willow or of some other bud or spring flower you have found recently? Under it you may tell where and when you found it and anything else that is interesting. Perhaps your teacher will help you to make the picture. You may like to take the story home to show to your father and mother.

LESSON 45

Learning to Use Throw, Threw, Thrown

Read the following story several times:

"The boys were trying to see how far they could throw a ball this morning, and I threw it across the school yard," said George to his brother one evening. "The principal saw me when I threw it and said that he didn't think any one had thrown it across before."

Read the following sentences aloud several times: I can throw the ball.

I threw it yesterday.
Charles threw it, too.

We have thrown it every day.

What did, George do?

What did the principal see?

What did the principal say?

Who has thrown it across the yard?

THROW, THREW, THROWN A GAME

Catch the Ball I Threw

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The teacher will choose a leader, who will leave the room.

The teacher will then call the name of a pupil and will throw him an imaginary ball. He will pretend to catch it, and he will then call the name of another pupil and pretend to throw the ball to him. This may be kept up until each pupil has had the imaginary ball. No pupil should have the ball more than

once.

The leader may now return, and the game will go like this:

Leader: Frank, did you catch the ball?

Frank: Yes, I caught the ball.

Leader: What did you do with it?

Frank: I threw it to Gladys.

Leader: Gladys, did you catch the ball?

Gladys: Yes, I caught the ball.

Leader: What did you do with it?

Gladys: I threw it to Lucy.

If any pupil forgets and says ketch, ketched, or throwd, he is caught. The pupils must keep watch and raise their hands if they hear an incorrect word.

Making Your Tongue Behave

Your teacher will write on the blackboard these five words:

throw threw thrown catch caught

She will point to one of the words and will call upon some one to make a sentence that contains the word correctly used. See how many correct sentences the class can make in five minutes. The teacher will appoint a pupil to keep a record of the correct sentences that are made.

LESSON 46

WHICH WAS RIGHT?

"Hello, Leon, guess what we're going to do Wednesday," said Walter as he met Leon in the hall.

"We aren't going to have a holiday, are we?" asked Leon in turn.

"No, not quite so good as that, but we're going to get out half an hour earlier," replied Walter.

"How do you know?" asked Leon.

"The principal came to our room and asked me to carry this note to each teacher to read," said Walter.

"Did he tell you what was in it?" asked Leon.

“No, but don't you suppose I can read? See here," and Walter held out the note to Leon.

"No," said Leon, "my mother told me I had no right to read a note that didn't belong to me."

"Huh, I'd like to know why I haven't a right to read it. It isn't sealed," said Walter rather angrily.

"Mother said a gentleman wouldn't do it," replied Leon. "I'd like to know why?" said Walter again.

"She said that it wouldn't be courteous for the principal to seal a note as that would look as though he didn't trust But, if he trusted me and gave me a note that wasn't sealed, I ought to be equally courteous and not read the note."

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