Look up (1) accept and except, (2) wonde and (3) mad and angry in the dictionary, and how the words differ.

Writing an Explanation. Write a compos paragraphs, explaining the correct use of the abo misused one for the other. Give a sentence to word. Observe how the illustrative sentences a What mark of punctuation is used?

8. Making an Outline. An outline is a summary, of the chief topics, with the main deta to each chief topic. The subtopics are written topics a half inch to the right. Both sets of to own special markings. Observe them in the fo

omitting the articles. You do not use complete sente outlines, but phrases or merely words.

Complete the outline on page 206 to suit your club. Writing a Letter. Write a letter to the principal school, telling about your English Club. Follow the letter on page 201. Have three paragraphs in the bod letter, each a part of the outline on page 206.

Make an envelope and address it. The best letter sent.

9. A Humming Game. To get good tone, hum with the lips lightly closed. Then open the lips, but c humming.

A Talk to the Class. Tell the class what you a interested in outside of school. Describe it. Tell ho

could find information about it.

Reminders

Stand erect.

Face the class.

Speak out loud.

10. Exhibit of the Class Motto. The volunteer con will exhibit the placard that they have made for the Club. Consider (1) its size and shape, (2) its materia (3) its wording. Have you any suggestions for in ment?

Writing a Class Letter. Write a letter to a membe volunteer committee, telling (1) what you like abou placard and (2) how you think it might be improved will offer suggestions, and the teacher will write on the the sentences selected as the best.

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BIOGRAPHIES

An autob

II. The Rule for Paragraphing. biography written by oneself. On the opposite the beginning of an autobiography written by the only deaf and blind girl who has been graduate

Why are there six paragraphs instead of one lo A paragraph is a group of sentences that deal In the opposite autobiography find the parag following topics:

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to the silence and darkness"? How did Miss Anne M. Sullivan, set her "spirit free " "? At the library find out something more about Remember: Put sentences about different topi paragraphs..

12. Writing an Autobiographical Letter. Ima to be a dog, telling his own story.

My name is Beautiful Joe, and I am a brown size. I am not called Beautiful Joe because I am know that I am not beautiful, and that I am not a I am only a cur.

I am an old dog now, and am writing, or rather g to write, the story of my life.

SAUNDERS:

1I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little northern Alabama.

2 I lived, up to the time of the illness that deprived m sight and hearing, in a tiny house consisting of a large, squa and a small one in which the servant slept. It was co covered with vines, climbing roses, and honeysuckles. I garden it looked like an arbor. The little porch was hid view by a screen of yellow roses and southern smilax. It favorite haunt of humming birds and bees.

3 Even in the days before my teacher came, I used to f the square, stiff boxwood hedges, and, guided by the sense would find the first violets and lilies.

4 I am told that while I was still in long dresses I insis imitating everything that I saw other people do. At six I could pipe out, "How d'ye," and one day I attracted ev attention by saying, "Tea, tea, tea," quite plainly.

5 They tell me I walked the day I was a year old. My had just taken me out of the bathtub and was holding m lap, when I was suddenly attracted by the flickering sh leaves that danced in the sunlight on the smooth floor. from my The mother's lap and almost ran toward them. gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up in her a These happy days did not last long. One brief spring with the song of robin and mocking bird, one summer ric and roses, one autumn of gold and crimson sped by and gifts at the feet of an eager, delighted child. Then in th month of February came the illness which closed my eyes Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness that su me and forgot that it had ever been different, until she my teacher who was to set my spirit free.

HELEN KELLER: The Story of My

* By permission of Doubleday, Page and Company.

Copy the first paragraph about Beautiful Jo the beginning of a letter. Then tell what happ in his first year.

13. The Parts Words Play: Review. Read account of “the most important day " Helen bered. How did her way of learning differ fro

MY MOST IMPORTANT DAY

1 The most important day I remember in all m on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan,

2 The morning after my teacher came she led m and gave me a doll. When I had played with Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand donce interested in this finger play and tried to im I finally succeeded in making the letters correctl with childish pleasure and pride.

3 Running down stairs to my mother I held u made the letters for doll. I did not know tha a word or even that words existed. I was sim fingers go in monkey-like imitation. In the day I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way words, among them, pin, hat, cup, and a few verb and walk. But my teacher had been with me before I understood that everything has a name.

4 One day, while I was playing with my new dol put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled a to make me understand that d-o-l-l applied to in the day we had had a tussle over the wo w-a-t-e-r. Miss Sullivan had tried to impres that m-u-g is mug and that w-a-t-e-r is water,

in confusing the two.

5 We walked down the path to the well-hous the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which i