18. Choosing Words Effectively. Words s Until you have learned to store your mind with impatient of using any but the right word for will not write effectively.

In writing the autobiography of a shilling, J imagined the English coin to be a person and that suited that idea. Explain ingot1, convoy 1, refined2, and British mode.2

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1 I was born on the side of a m little village of Peru, and made a vo in an ingot under the convoy of Sir

2 I was, soon after my arrival, tal Indian habit, refined, naturalized, and put i mode, with the face of Queen Elizabeth on o arms of the country on the other. 3 Being I found in me a wonderful inclination to ram parts of the new world to which I was brought very much favored my natural disposition, and s from hand to hand that before I was five years ol into almost every corner of the nation.

ADDISON: Adventure

What adventures can you imagine for this a When did Sir Francis Drake get it? Where? can find a picture of a shilling.

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Imagine an autobiography for an American Writing an Autobiography of a Coin. following be born? When? How would they society"? What adventure might they have?

1. A Buffalo nickel
2. A Lafayette dollar

3. A Lincoln p

4. A greenback

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1 Except a living man there is nothing more wonder a book! 2 It is a message to us from the dead - from souls whom we never saw; who lived, perhaps, thous miles away. Yet these, in those little sheets of pape to us. 4 They amuse us; terrify us; teach us; open the to us as brothers. CHARLES KIN

Books are of two general kinds: (1) those which and (2) those which inspire, amuse, and delight. Re books, dictionaries, textbooks, and technical books the first kind. Poetry, fiction, biography, dramas, and are of the second kind.

Discuss each sentence in the quotation given abo show that it is true.

Imagine yourself to be a great book speaking about y What might a poem say? a novel? a play? an orat magazine? Imagine a speech; as, "I am a magazine. (Tell what it contains and what its message is to the world). 20. An Enunciation Drill. The following quotati phasizes the importance of good enunciation. enunciating the quotation.

Words should be delivered from the lips as beautiful coi issued from the mint; deeply and accurately impressed; I finished; neatly struck by the proper organs; distinct; succession and of due weight.

A Talk to the Class. Choose a book that you hav well. Imagine it to be speaking a message to the class. with "I am (The name of the book) . . . I was writ (The name of the author) . . . I tell about . . . (W book deals with) . . The most interesting thing in me (Tell the most interesting thing in the book) . . ."

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21. Study of a Poem: The following poem an American poet who lost his life in the Wor pictures might be drawn to illustrate it ?

What is the mouth of the tree? its food? stanza to what does the poet compare the tree are found where you live? Where is the most What are the chief uses of trees in a commu forests are chopped down, how does the countr Memorize this poem.

*From Joyce Kilmer's "Poems, Essays and Letters," copyrigh Doran Company, Publishers.

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Illustrate it with a tree. Print your favorite stanza poem "Trees" on it. The best poster will be chosen class and placed in the corridor.

Writing a Letter. Write a letter to your teacher, des your poster, and telling why you have chosen your sta

23. Review of Kinds of Sentences. When you d something, you can tell what it is made of, its structure form; or you can tell its use or purpose. Sentences m described in the same way:

Form, or Structure

Simple. The tree is large. (One subject and one predica Complex. The tree that fell was large. (Sentence clause)

Compound. The tree fell, but nobody was hurt. (Tw main parts, or clauses)

Purpose, or Use

Declarative. (1) The tree is large.

(2) Spare that tree.

(States a fact)

Interrogative. Is the tree large?

(Gives a command) (Asks a question)

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Note that any declarative or interrogative sentence be exclamatory when it is expressed with strong emotion "How large the tree is! Could any tree be more beaut Remember: According to form, sentences are simple, co or compound.

According to use, sentences are declarative or interro Either declarative or interrogative sentences m exclamatory.

Vary your sentences.

An Exercise.

Tell what the following ser

(1) form and (2) use. Put a waved line under t clauses and a straight line under the phrases.

1. Is that beautiful scarlet tree a maple?
2. Spare the forest tree, for it prevents floods.
3. The tree falls where it stands, and the flowe
river goes on forever.

4. The locomotive has set the woods on fire.
5. The wind blows, and the thunder rolls near
6. The age of the tree is shown by the rings w

trunk.

7. Where is the ignorant man who failed to in the woods?

8. Deer, bears, wolves, and wildcats fled for t the raging flames.

9. The valley is threatened by flood! Run! 10. Floods from the mountains poured into the dam also broke.

24. Weighing Facts. You have discussed grow in your community. Write a list of ther From this list choose the two you think wou candidates for election as a State Tree.

Suppose that a road is to be built across yo certain tree planted on both sides. Which t like to see planted? Discuss the good and the the various trees.

Writing a Paragraph of Reasons. Prepare arguments in favor of a certain tree as State Tr think of an objection that any one might offer, an argument to meet that objection.