a speech for a flag raising? 187. An Expression Drill. The following poem tells anot way of expressing the "community interests " and " destiny" of Charles E. Hughes's speech. comm Practice reciting this at home slowly and with expressi Give the full vowel sound to our own" (not THE LAW are own There is a destiny that makes us brothers: All that is sent into the lives of others Comes back into our own. EDWIN MARKHA A Talk to the Class. Imagine that you are the chief spea at a flag-raising celebration, in which the flag is to be the to Tell how to honor the flag (1) abroad, (2) on the street, (3) a private home, (4) in meetings, and (5) at school. Make an outline first. Write a good opening sentence. a good closing sentence. The best speech will be selected for the program on page 3 188. Writing a Letter. Write a business letter to y janitor, telling him of your prospective flag raising in school yard and inviting him to be present. Analysis. Analyze the following sentences: 1. Do as you would have others do to you. 2. Try to honor the flag in every way. 3. Think before you speak, and think twice before you sp angrily. 4. Do your best every hour of the day. 189. Writing a Declaration of Faith in the Flag. Cor the following outline for a composition about the flag: I. Origin of the American Flag III. What the red, white, and blue stand for Write your composition in four paragraphs. Read your composition aloud at home (1) to yoursel (2) to some member of the family. Improve it. Rewrit 190. Giving a Flag Program. In a class period presen following program: PROGRAM THE LANGUAGE PLEDGE. (Page 196) . . . The Class A RECITATION. DECLAMATIONS. Page's The American's Creed (Page 167) . A pupi A pupi Roosevelt's Creed (Page 387) A pupil Winthrop's How the Flag Speaks (Page 4) A pupil READING OF COMPOSITIONS. Declarations of Faith (P. 392) The class (The pupils will go to the schoolyard for A Flag Raising) A pupil 191. Communication with the Outside World. In o to exist happily to-day a community must be able to c municate with the outside world. Why? How is f brought into your community? How is your community able to transact business aff with the outside world? What public servants connect y home with the outside world? We might call these "com carriers," public messengers, or transportation. Find means of communication between a city or a cour community and the outside world. Apply these to y town or county by telling actual names or by describing th in some way. How should you miss any one of these i were absent? Which is the oldest in service? Which is the youngest newest, possibly unknown where you live? 192. A Pronunciation Drill. (See A Pronunciation Ma page 395.) A Talk to the Class. Divide the class into seven tea each to take one of the following subjects. Tell of what va it is, or might be, to a community. Tell how you would r it if it were not there, or tell about its coming possibilities Get accurate information through observation, reading, conversation. Make an outline first. Have a good open and a good closing sentence. 1. The telephone 3. The post office 5. The railroad 7. The hig 2. The telegraph 4. The airplane 6. The street car way A committee of three pupils will sit in the back of the ro and rise if they cannot hear you. Writing a Letter. Outside of class write a letter to superintendent of schools, inviting him to be present at pageant. Make an envelope and address it. The letter that the greatest improvement since the beginning of the yea be sent. 193. Outlining a Summary. The selections on this and the next are summaries, or abstracts of detailed rep In what way does the writer aim at accuracy? (a) NEW YORK'S POST OFFICE 1 Fifteen million pieces of ordinary mail a ceived and delivered daily, also 50,000 regis letters and 650,000 pounds of newspapers periodicals, these being handled by 12,000 pe employed in the 53 classified and 262 con stations in New York, according to an official statement is by its postmaster. 2 More than 325,000 pieces of misdir mail are handled daily, not including removal notices. 3 Postal receipts for the year showed an increase of 11 cent over the previous year, which meant an average dail crease of $15,000. Postage collections amounted to $146 daily, and $140 was found daily in "dead letters." 5 Rece for the sale by auction of undelivered parcels amounted to $40 during the last fiscal year. The New York post office rece and disbursed $750,000,000 annually and issued money or for $38,000,000. 7 It had on deposit, from its 160,000 deposit the sum of $42,000,000. Selected 6 Divide the class into two committees, one to outline su mary (a) and the other to outline summary (b) by giv two main topics and arranging all the facts as subtopics. Remember: A summary is a condensed account. 1 The bureau of the census one year reported that there were 53,234 separate telephone systems and lines, operating 28,827,188 miles of wire, "enough to girdle the earth at the equator 1153 times," and connecting 11,716,520 telephones and 21,175 public exchanges. 2 The messages, or "talks" sent over the wires, aggregated 211 in the year to every man, woman, and 3 The industry employed 262,629 persons, of whom more 65 per cent were women. 4 Their salaries amounted to $175 5 The plants and equipment were valued at $1,492,239 and they yielded revenues totalling $391,499,531. 449. The Boston Her 194. Writing a Summarizing Paragraph. Summaries not always deal with figures. Write a summary of the things one of the seven community helps given at the bo of page 393 does in your community. Write as if it speaking. Begin, “I am the Telephone" (or other obj Then tell what you do for the community. Keep the topic that your team selected on page 393, your teacher prefers, group the class into seven new team The best composition from each team's work will be ch for the pageant. A Baseball Pronunciation Match. Each pupil will on a small piece of paper and hand to the teacher a list o or more words that he has mispronounced during the The pupil "at bat " will pronounce the three words he d from the hat. (See page 47.) 195. Review. (See pages 307 and 402.) |