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... tion of both teachers and pupils . The problems of the reading class are the Problems of Expression and the Problems of Construction . One by one the selections present them , and one by one the Suggestive Studies aim to help the ...
... tion of both teachers and pupils . The problems of the reading class are the Problems of Expression and the Problems of Construction . One by one the selections present them , and one by one the Suggestive Studies aim to help the ...
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... tion and Rhetoric ( Lockwood and Emerson ) , The Mother Tongue , and Lessons in English ( Lockwood ) are used by permission of Ginn and Company . The extract from " Les Miserables , " adapted by Cora Marsland in " Interpretive Readings ...
... tion and Rhetoric ( Lockwood and Emerson ) , The Mother Tongue , and Lessons in English ( Lockwood ) are used by permission of Ginn and Company . The extract from " Les Miserables , " adapted by Cora Marsland in " Interpretive Readings ...
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... tion is simple . When a pupil expresses his own thoughts he knows exactly the idea that he wishes to convey , and the emphasis on the various words is instinctively proportioned . When he attempts to ex- press the thought of another ...
... tion is simple . When a pupil expresses his own thoughts he knows exactly the idea that he wishes to convey , and the emphasis on the various words is instinctively proportioned . When he attempts to ex- press the thought of another ...
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... tion in subject . About whom are we reading in sentence I ? What is said about him ? In sentence 2 ? Etc. 5. How many sentences in the paragraph ? SENTENCE I. This is a very common form of sentence : a statement followed by an ...
... tion in subject . About whom are we reading in sentence I ? What is said about him ? In sentence 2 ? Etc. 5. How many sentences in the paragraph ? SENTENCE I. This is a very common form of sentence : a statement followed by an ...
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... tion of the listeners must be directed to that . 14. A sentence that shows the thought value of the parts of a compound word . How do you know that the Emperor's powers of endurance were recognized ? ( Answer all such ques- tions in the ...
... tion of the listeners must be directed to that . 14. A sentence that shows the thought value of the parts of a compound word . How do you know that the Emperor's powers of endurance were recognized ? ( Answer all such ques- tions in the ...
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ALEXANDER POPE ALFRED TENNYSON balance beauty brave Cæsar Chap CHARLES DICKENS clause comma Compare contrast dead death Desaix difference effect emotional England exclamation Explain expression eyes feel give gradation grouping hearers heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow honor ideas illustration imagination inflection inserted JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Julius Cæsar king leading live look Lord main thought meaning mind modified words nature never night Note Notice patriotism pause phrases picture poem poet portion punctuation pupils question quotation rain reader repetition Rip Van Winkle Scene SELECTIONS AND SUGGESTIVE semicolons sentence ship song Song of Hiawatha speak speaker spirit stanza SUGGESTIVE STUDIES TEACH teacher tell tence thee things THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thou thought value tion Trace truth TURNER voice WASHINGTON IRVING WILLIAM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ΙΟ
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Page 501 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Page 503 - The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages.
Page 503 - All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 360 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Page 502 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around— Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 209 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 308 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 232 - ... tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 503 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 96 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn,.