SUGGESTED PLAN OF WORK BY WEEKS Many teachers will appreciate a definite plan of work that prescribes a certain amount to be accomplished each week. The plan that follows is merely suggestive. Many experienced teachers may prefer to follow a plan of their own, and will probably get better results from the book by disregarding the plan of work by weeks; but other teachers will find it helpful. It may also be interesting to pupils to know just what is expected of them at different stages of the journey. The work outlined provides for four periods a week for thirty-six weeks in Part One and for five periods for thirty-four weeks in Part Two, leaving two weeks for optional work. A school that allows more or less time than this will need to make an adjustment to suit its own program. The drill on speech errors should be given daily, with special emphasis each week on common faults. These speech errors include errors in syntax, in pronunciation, in enunciation, and in tone quality. These errors are not specified in the weekly plan of work because each class presents its own problems. The exercises in Correct Usage will be helpful as drills on common grammatical errors. The aim of the teacher should be to interest the pupils in speech improvement and to lead them to concentrate on one or two errors each week. PLAN OF WORK BY WEEKS 363 Each pupil and the teacher should keep a record of words misspelled in the pupils' written work. These spelling enemies should be overcome by persistent effort. PART ONE FIRST WEEK 1. Organize club (see pages 1-7). 2. Practice writing minutes of meeting (page 6). All the class should do this to learn the form for minutes. Drill on speech errors. 3. Plan a club program. See Chapter II, pages 8-13. 4. Write one or more of the letters suggested under A Club Program, page 12. Have the letters corrected in the class. A committee may be appointed to select the ones to be mailed. SECOND WEEK 1. Present club program planned the first week. Have pupils comment and criticize speakers. 2. Write a news item giving an account of the club program (see page 15). This may be published in the school paper or in a local newspaper. Study of Pictures, pages 17-20. 3. Study section on Letter Writing, pages 21-25. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 7. 4. Write one of the letters suggested under A Club Program, page 12. Have letters corrected. Select one or two and have them mailed. THIRD WEEK 1. Study The Sentence - Words that Express Action, page 28. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 13. 2. Study The Sentence - Subject and Predicate, pages 27, 28. 2. Write a letter to a pupil in the seventh grade of another town or city telling about the club, and asking for information about his school. Have letter corrected, and let each pupil mail his own letter. 3. Plan another club program centering around some school activity. Let pupils suggest the subject. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 16. 4. Parts of Speech - Verbs, page 37. 3. Parts of Speech-Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs, pages 3942. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 25. 4. Spelling words previously missed and words missed in letters. Picture Study, page 44. Correct Usage, page 35. SIXTH WEEK 1. Clauses and Complex Sentences, pages 45-48. Drill on speech errors. 2. Clauses and Complex Sentences continued. Apply principles to compositions. Dictation Exercise I, page 152. 3. A Geography Project, pages 50-52. Divide the work among committees. Let the club take up speech errors and work on them. 4. Write one of the letters suggested at the end of A Geography Project, page 53. Correct Usage, page 42. 1. Review of Noun, Grammar I, page 147. SEVENTH WEEK Verb, Adjective, and Adverb. Exercises in 2. Continue work on the geography project. Report of committees. Assignment of letters to be written. 3. Friendly Letters, pages 55-60. Drill on speech errors. 4. Bring to class letters you have received and work out a good letter. EIGHTH WEEK 1. Review Clauses and Complex Sentences, pages 45-48. Exercises in Grammar II, page 147. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 54. PLAN OF WORK BY WEEKS 2. Clear and Effective Speech, pages 62-66. 3. Reports on geography project. Correct Usage, page 61. 365 4. Pupils write out their reports on geography project for club booklet to be kept in school library. Have a committee to collect and bind the reports. NINTH WEEK 1. Oral telling of personal experiences, page 71. Follow points of criticism given in text, page 73. 2. Write a letter to a member of the family away from home, telling him the experience told in class (see page 74). 3. Punctuation within the Sentence - Quotation marks, page 75. Have pupils give original illustrations of quotations. Review spelling words missed in previous compositions. 4. Club meeting. Plan a Christmas program. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 70. TENTH WEEK 1. Continue Punctuation within the Sentence Commas to Set Off Names of Persons Addressed, pages 76, 77. Exercise, page 77. Dictation Exercise III, page 152. 2. Drill on speech errors. 3. Punctuation within the Sentence Contractions, page 78. 4. Christmas Program. Picture Study, page 80. ELEVENTH WEEK 1. Number, pages 81-83. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, page 83. 2. Write one of the letters suggested at end of Number, page 83. 3. Case of Nouns and Pronouns - Nominative Case, page 84. 4. A Play for a Club Program, pages 90-92. the class (see page 92). TWELFTH WEEK 1. Write one of the letters suggested on page 60. 2. Case of Nouns and Pronouns pages 86, 88. Work out play in Accusative and Genitive Cases, 3. The Preposition and Its Object, pages 93-95. Dictation Exercise IV, page 152. 4. A Club Program. Acting the play worked out preceding week. THIRTEENTH WEEK 1. Outlining What You Read-Feeding Eskimo Dogs; study of paragraphs, pages 96-100. 2. Write one of the letters suggested at end of Outlining, page 102. Drill on speech errors. Correct Usage, pages 89, 95. 3. How to Become More Rapid Readers, pages 104-109. Testing the reading rate, page 107. Use Gray's test, or use any paragraph within pupil's comprehension for the test. 4. A Club Program Current events. Apply what has been learned about reading the newspaper (see page 104). FOURTEENTH WEEK 1. Dictation Exercise V, page 152. Correct Usage, page 103. 2. Review Subject Substantive, Predicate Verb, Object, and Modifiers. Exercises in Grammar III, page 148. 3. Reading for Meaning, pages 112-115. Correct Usage, page III. 4. Applying Grammar to Reading, pages 116-119. ercise VI, page 153. FIFTEENTH WEEK Dictation Ex 1. Club meeting. Plan an excursion to some factory or other place of interest. Arrange for committees. Plan a letter asking permission to visit the factory. 2. Use of the Dictionary I22. Drill on speech errors. Spelling and Pronunciation, pages 121, 3. Use of the Dictionary continued. Application to words found in history, geography, etc. (see page 123). Pronunciation, pages 124-126. 4. Use of the Dictionary - Derivation and Definition, pages 122 126. SIXTEENTH WEEK 1. Club meeting. Oral reports on the excursion of previous week. 2. Dictation Exercise VII, page 153. Drill on speech errors. 3. Write a short report for the school paper. 4. Write one of the letters suggested at close of section on Friendly Letters, page 60. Correct letters and have them mailed. |