1 PART ONE PROJECT I. MAKING A FLAG PROGR 1. Conversation. Read the message on the opp What do the two words "America First m what ways does our country stand high among Talk about the United States in class: Size and Wealth. How large is the United State is the population of the country? Name three gr of its wealth. Why is each important? History and Heroes. When did the history of o as an independent nation begin? For what pr idea, has the United States stood firm? Name t men who have fought for this principle. Tell wha Language and Literature. Where did we get our Where can you find information about our writer three great American writers. Tell one fact about Remember: Ability to speak well and to read i will help to make you good Americans. Finding the Facts. The teacher will divide three groups, or committees, to look up the page 1 in class. Group I will consult a geogra a history; group 3, an unabridged dictionary, a or readers. Then you will have accurate report. 2. Getting the Full Meaning from a Poem. poem, written during the Civil War, is as tru was sixty years ago. When you read it, lo dictionary any words you do not know. The ready to talk about it intelligently. UNION AND LIBERTY 1 Flag of the heroes who left us their glory,* Chorus Up with our banner bright, Spread its fair emblems from mountain to sh Loud rings the Nation's cry UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE! 2 Light of our firmament, guide of our Nation, Pride of her children, and honored afar, Let the wide beams of thy full constellation Scatter each cloud that would darken a star *The number with each stanza will make it easier for you to stanzas. Son P 2, edia, 1 to wing as it your 11 be us different Bearing the standard of Liberty's van? Striving with men for the birthright of man! 4 Yet if, by madness and treachery blighted, Dawns the dark hour when the sword thou must Then with the arms of thy millions united, Smite the bold traitors to Freedom and Law! 5 Lord of the Universe! shield us and guide us, Keep us, oh, keep us the MANY IN ONE! - Chor What did the author of this poem have in min wrote the title? The motto of the United States is unum (one out of many). Is it a good motto? W Tell the names of three heroes and battlefields in stanza I. What flag poems, songs, and stori know? Which do you like best? Which line them? Explain "empire unsceptered."3 Give tw of the word standard.3 What does it mean here? For what should we be ready to fight? Name that would dishonor the star of a state. Read the poem (1) with the Civil War in mind aı the World War in mind. Which lines refer part the Civil War? Pick out the stanza that you lik tell what picture you see in it. Five pupils will now read the stanzas aloud in t volunteers will give the chorus from memory. C 3. The Form of the Sentence and the Para follow the working of the mind of an orator wh speech about the American flag. Notice how thought to thought: "The flag is bunting," he thinks, "but it it has a voice. Each part - has a thing to do, then, is to take the different pa -the stripes and the stars and show tha voice. What would each part say if it could s When the orator speaks, we hear the sepa as they are given in (a); but when he writes do it will appear as a paragraph, (b). (a) As spoken 1 The flag is a piece of bunting (b) As 1 The flag is a lifted in the air, but it speaks sub-lifted in the air, b limely and every part has a voice 2 Its stripes of alternate red and white proclaim the original union of thirteen states. 3 Its stars of white on a field of blue proclaim that union of states constituting our national constellation, which receives a new star with every new state. limely and every ROBER Briefly stated, this is what he has thought o How the Flag Speaks The flag is bunting, yet it speaks.1 The stripes speak for the original colon ng a rom alive The flag as a nces, eech, nting subvoice. and union ars of claim uting which y new ROP develop a bigger thought, or topic (How the Fla Each of these three thoughts makes sense in its needs the other thoughts to make the topic clear. When a number of words are put together to ma plete thought, as in the three parts of (a) on page called a sentence. When such sentences are put t make a complete topic, as in (b) on page 4, the paragraph. Remember: A sentence begins with a capital and a period. In writing a paragraph begin the first line abo to the right of the other lines. This is called Always keep a margin of an inch on the le written paper. Dictation. Copy the three sentences in (a) on one paragraph. Indent the paragraph one inch. margin of an inch. Keep this piece of written work. 4. A Humming Game.* To form good tone must pass out through both nose and mouth. To open the nasal passage, hum m-m-m with the lips lightly closed, thus forcing the palate to hang down in the right position. Then drop the lower jaw and let the humming s out through both mouth and nose. * Each talk is preceded by a pronunciation game or drill, which is several minutes, and is to be repeated when needed. |