Assignment for fast workers. One group may report on the life of Guido Reni. Another group may report on "Apollo, The Sun God." A third group may report on "Aurora, The Goddess of the Dawn." Another group may report on one of the pictures listed above. 37. TRAVEL AND COMMUNICATION I Make a collection of pictures showing different methods of travel, and bring them to the class. Gather as many facts as you can about these various ways of traveling. You may find pictures illustrating several of the following: 1. Walking 2. Riding a horse 3. Riding an elephant 9. The carriage 11. The sedan chair 12. The palanquin 20. The airship 21. The hydroplane 22. The airplane From your collection select the picture that you know the most about or that interests you the most. Be prepared to give the class a three-minute talk about it. Remember your outline. II In a similar way gather facts and pictures about communication: 1. Letter writing a. The stylus b. The quill c. The steel pen d. The fountain pen 2. Telegraphing 3. Cabling 4. Telephoning 6. Semaphores 7. Indian smoke signals An illustrated talk is always more interesting. Perhaps you can make a small model of your subject and use it in your talk. When you are through, your classmates will tell you1. Whether you really made them understand your topic. 2. What words, comparisons, and illustrations helped most. 3. Where you failed to make your meaning clear. 38. READING GOOD BOOKS If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived in palaces and gardens, with fine dinners and wines, with coaches and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on the condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. -Thomas B. Macaulay Have you ever become so absorbed in a book that you forgot your dinner? Have you often hurried through your work to get at a book? If you have not, you have missed something a thousand times better than the best circus you ever saw. Here is a list of good books. Can you read one of them within the next two weeks and be ready to report on it to your class? 1. Adventures of Ulysses 3. The Jungle Books. 6. The Anne Books (4) 7. The Gold Bug... 8. Treasure Island. 9. The Man Without a Country.. 10. Louisa Alcott Books..... 11. Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons. 12. Emmeline.... 13. The Nürnberg Stove. 14. A Pretty Tory.. 15. Tales from Shakespeare. 16. The Peasant and the Prince. . Charles Lamb Sidney Lanier Rudyard Kipling .Mark Twain .George Madden Martin Lucy Maud Montgomery . Edgar Allan Poe Robert Louis Stevenson ..Louisa M. Alcott . Louise de la Ramée Jennie Gould Lincoln Charles and Mary Lamb .Harriet Martineau Like the simple story of The Wise Dervish, each of these stories has an introduction or setting, a plot which develops suspense, and an ending which tells you how the story came out. Be prepared to tell your class about your book, using the following outline for your report: I. Setting Time, place, people. II. Plot-What was I anxious to know after I had read a few pages? Give a short account of what happened. cannot go into great detail. Of course you It might be well to tell the incident you liked best. III. Ending How it all came out. Possibly you may prefer not to tell the class just how it came out. Use your own judgment whether to tell them or not. Be sure to tell them why you liked the book and make them want to read it. The class will decide: 1. Who made the best report. 2. What was the best statement of a plot. 3. Which was the most interesting character discussed. BOOK REPORT This book report shows how Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn impressed a boy who likes adventure. Study his report and see if he gives the setting, the plot, and the ending. Does he tell why he likes Huckleberry Finn? HUCKLEBERRY FINN Huckleberry Finn tells about the adventures of two boys, "Huck" and "Tom," who ran away from home and went on a raft down the Mississippi. A faithful old darky, named Jim, went with them. "Huck" and "Tom" had many thrilling experiences. They fell in with two ignorant rascals who made the boys get money. The things they do and say are very funny. When I read this book I am always wondering what will happen next.. After a series of strange episodes, "Huck" and "Tom" come back up the river. Their relatives and friends are very happy to see them. I like this book because it was written especially for boys about boys. -Ralph Higgins Assignment for fast workers. Write out your book report, or if the teacher requires everyone to write a book report, write one or two additional ones. See if you can make every new report better than those you have written before. Read your report to the class or to the group of fast workers. Your classmates will tell you the points in which they were most interested. The boy waited patiently at the station. The guests arrived early. The explorer was lost somewhere in the Arctic regions. How did the boy wait? When did the guests arrive? Where was the explorer lost? To what degree was Mary tired? Words which give us the ideas of how, when, where and to what degree are called adverbs. As their name indicates, these words are usually added to verbs to modify their meaning; for example: walked slowly; laughed merrily; sang sweetly. Adverbs may, however, modify adjectives or other adverbs. The horse was too old to work. The adverb too modifies the adjective old, since it tells how old. The wind blew very sharply. The adverb very modifies the other adverb sharply, since it tells how sharply. |