Look

on the balls of both feet with one foot slightly in front of the other. Do not lean on a desk or a table. your audience in the eye do not look at the ceiling or out of the window. If anyone tries to make you forget, show him that your talk is not going to be spoiled. The upward lift of the chin and the balance of your position give you a feeling of commanding the situation. If you are reading, do not hold the book or paper too high.

Plan to have all mechanical things such as personal appearance, outline, preparation, etc., as nearly perfect as you can make them. Then forget everything but "putting your talk over."

Select your own topic or one from this list and plan a talk, following the suggestions given in this lesson: 1. A Radio Evening at Home

2. On the Ranch
3. Summer Fun

4. Forest Fires

5. Daniel Boone

6. Dirigibles

7. A Chair Ride in China

8. How Our Team Won the Game

9. My First Attempt at Fishing 10. Learning to Swim

Assignment for fast workers. Make an original list of at least six topics on which you can plan an interesting talk. If possible select topics of special interest to your schoolmates or to the people of the community in which you live. Make outlines for talks on two or three of these topics.

SELECTION FOR MEMORIZING

The busy world shoves angrily aside

The man who stands with arms akimbo set
Until occasion tells him what to do,

And he who waits to have his task marked out,
Shall die, and leave his errand unfulfilled.

21. THRIFT DAY

So well does the nation think of thrift that a whole week is set aside early in January each year as National Thrift Week. Surely you as a class should look into You will discover some very interesting

this matter.

things.

Conduct an investigation along these lines. Have class discussions on these questions:

1. Does thrift mean saving money only?

2. In what ways is nature thrifty?

3. Do animals and insects save? squirrels? bees? ants?

4. What is the difference between thrift and miserliness?

5. Why is it thrifty to pay taxes to support fire and police departments?

6. Could the shooting of birds and the destruction of helpful snakes and small animals be called a lack of thrift?

7. Why is it thrifty to reduce the number of cats in your neighborhood?

8. How could the studying of your lessons enter into the thrift question?

9. What nations are noted for their thrift? How does it make itself apparent?

10. What man in our early American history is connected in our minds with thrift?

11. Mention three men who have risen to fame who were thrifty.

12. How can you personally practice thrift?

Decorate your halls with posters, and conduct a thrift campaign. Choose a "slogan."

Could you manage a school bank? Could you give a thrift play? Why do you think so?

What other activities could you connect with a thrift campaign?

One of your classmates may impersonate Benjamin Franklin and deliver a speech in the auditorium or before the assembled classes of the school on "Thrift." Literature may be obtained from

Savings Division,
U. S. Treasury,
Washington, D. C.

22. REVIEWING KINDS OF SENTENCES

USE

There are different kinds of sentences, classified according to their use. For example, if I say, "The flowers are beautiful,” I make a statement, or declare something.

If I inquire, "Are the flowers beautiful?" I use the sentence to ask a question.

If I say, "Give me those beautiful flowers," I express a request or a command, or speak in an imperative

manner.

If I should exclaim, "Oh, see those beautiful flowers!" my sentence would be exclamatory.

A sentence that tells or declares something is a declarative sentence.

A sentence that asks a question is an interrogative sentence.

A sentence that expresses a command or a request is an imperative sentence.

A sentence that expresses a sudden or a strong feeling is an exclamatory sentence.

Classify the following sentences according to their

use:

1. Where are you going this evening?
2. I think I shall remain at home.
3. Why, how ridiculous that is!
4. Will you please close the door?

5. Give me of your bark, O Birch Tree.

6. Slowly the days succeeded each other.
7. Early to bed, and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.
8. Ch, what a fall was there, my countrymen!

9. Guatemala is northwest of Honduras.

10. We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

Assignment for fast workers. While you are waiting for your classmates to finish the preceding exercise, write something that you can express in four different ways: e. g.:

Mary studies her lesson while John practices on the violin. (Declarative)

Does Mary study her lesson while John practices on the violin? (Interrogative)

How hard Mary studies her lesson while John practices on the violin! (Exclamatory)

Mary, study your lesson while John practices on the violin. (Imperative)

23. ENRICHING THE VOCABULARY

This little rule will help you to remember how to spell these words:

Place i before e except after c.

Consult the dictionary for the correct meaning of the words listed below and then be able to use them in your vocabulary.

Before the close of your study period, test yourself by making a list of the words without looking at your book. Compare your list with the list as given in your book. How many did you remember? Did you spell them correctly?

Pronounce the following words, speaking the marked vowels with especial care: