6. LANGUAGE LESSON

Dictation by the teacher:

Every sentence should begin with a capital.

How did you write Every? With a capital E? How many put a period after the word capital?

Dictation by the teacher:

Every sentence that tells something should end with a period.

Every sentence that asks a question should end with a question mark.

Did you remember the capitals and the periods?

In the following sentences which are declarative? Which are interrogative? Put the proper marks at the end of each.

1. George and May are brother and sister

2. Mr. Lawrence, their father, is a doctor 3. How old do you suppose they are

4. What is your age

5. You are just the same age as May

6. Would you like to know something more about George and May

7. If you read the book, you will hear about them from time to time

8. How old is George

9. He is two years older than May

10. Where do they live

11. Perhaps you will find out in another lesson

12. Can you remember their names and ages

Turn back to Lesson 1 and tell which of the sentences are declarative and which interrogative.

Read the poem aloud. Commit it to memory, noticing that it tells first of the birds, second of sailors, third of the children in far countries, and fourth of the organ with the organ man. They are all singing. What does each sing about? Do you know any other poem by Stevenson?

8. WRITTEN LESSON

Copy the poem in Lesson 7. Are your capitals and periods correct? Is your writing neat and distinct?

Copy the following sentences:

James and I are going on a picnic.

O, I wish you were going with us!

There are three words in our language that contain only a single letter. What are they? Two of them are always written with a capital. What are they? Write other sentences containing O and I.

9. LANGUAGE LESSON

Dictation by the teacher:

Every line of a poem should begin with a capital.

The words O and I should always be capitals.

Make five sentences by telling something about the following farmer, conductor, policeman, organ grinder, sailor. Write five interrogative sentences, each containing one of these words: sing, play, beg, climb, dance.

Some words sound alike, but differ in spelling and meaning: as to, too, two, or, write, wright, right. For the following words, write others pronounced the same but spelled differently.

Study the picture carefully, until you can make questions Ask the teacher to divide the class into two

or answers.

sides. Each pupil on one side must ask a question, each question must be answered by a pupil on the other side. Are the questions and answers good sentences? If any question or answer is not a sentence, it counts a point for the other side. Some of the class may tell the whole story of the picture.

11. WRITTEN LESSON

In the last lesson you talked about the children in the picture. Can you think of five or six sentences to write about one of the children? Give the child a name; tell what costume he wears, and what he is doing. What else can you tell about him? What you write will make a story. Follow the directions in Lesson 2 as to margin, and be careful to use capitals and periods correctly.

Some of these stories are to be read in the class. Sentences from the stories will be rewritten on the board.

Look at the names.

How are the names written?

12. LANGUAGE LESSON

All words referring to God, as Lord, Our Lord, Jehovah, begin with capitals.

Names of persons, places, countries, and cities begin with capitals.

James W. Thompson, Albany, New York, United States.

The name of the boy dressed as a pirate is Harry Brown, and he lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Imagine a name for each of the children and a city in which they live. Write these names correctly with capitals. Notice how the comma (,) is used in the example above.