PLAN OF WORK BY WEEKS TWENTIETH WEEK 377 1. Correct Usage, page 309. Drill on other common speech errors. 2. Continue writing for the booklet, and revise the last paragraph submitted. 3. Study Adjectives, including Comparison, pages 311-313. 4. Oral composition. Stories told by pupils. Class criticism based on the study of story-telling the previous week. 5. Study Adjectival Phrases and Clauses, with exercise, page 314. TWENTY-FIRST WEEK 1. Study Adverbs to Comparison, including exercises, pages 314–316. 2. Study Comparison of Adverbs, Adverbial Phrases and Clauses, pages 316, 317. 3. Continue work on the booklet, as before. 4. Oral composition: suggestions for improving the school. 5. Study Prepositions, pages 318, 319. Correct Usage, page 318. TWENTY-SECOND WEEK 1. Study Expression of Feeling, pages 320-328. Bring to class poems or prose passages that successfully express joy, pleasure in the beauty of nature, courage, devotion, and other feelings. 2. Write the impressions suggested by one of the topics on page 323. Express your impressions concretely and use verbs instead of adjectives and adverbs. 3. Continue the study of Expression of Feeling, with special reference to the use of verbs. Try writing poetry (see page 325). 4. Oral composition. Attempt to put a situation before your audience in such a way that it arouses the feeling appropriate to the situation. 5. Continue work on the booklet. TWENTY-THIRD WEEK 1. Study Writing about Pictures, including the illustrative story, pages 326, 327. 2. Correct Usage, page 328. Drill on common speech faults. 3. Correct and revise the last paragraph written for the booklet. Plan the next paragraph. 4. Study Conjunctions, pages 331-334. 5. Continue Conjunctions, including exercise on analysis of sentences on page 334. TWENTY-FOURTH WEEK 1. Oral composition. Tell a story of your escape from danger. This may be real or imaginary, but if imaginary it must be told so that it is convincing. 2. Study Words without Organic Connection with the Sentence, pages 335-339. 3. Continue the same topic, including exercise on page 337. 4. Continue work on the booklet as before. 5. Correct Usage, page 339. Drill on other common speech faults. TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK 1. Study Idioms, pages 340-343. Find examples of the use of idioms. 2. Continue the study of Idioms. 3. Continue work on the booklet. arrange the paragraphs in regular order. Write your conclusion, and 4. Oral composition on topics of current interest. 5. Write a friendly letter to a real person. After revising and copying the letter, you may mail it. TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK 1. Review of rules for using period, interrogation point, and exclamation point, page 345. Write Dictation Exercise I, page 349. 2. Oral composition on some topic of civic or community interest. Class criticism, with especial emphasis on clearness and correct usage. 3. Picture Study, page 360. Write your feelings or a story suggested by the picture on page 359. 4. Review of The Sentence, pages 183-187. 5. Review of The Sentence, pages 187-191. TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK 1. Rules for using the comma, pages 345-347. Write Dictation Exercise II, page 349. 2. Begin writing a continued story. Work on setting, plot, and characters. 3. Review Parts of Speech, pages 215-223. 4. Review Parts of Speech, pages 223–231. 5. Class criticism of completed booklets. PLAN OF WORK BY WEEKS TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK 379 1. Rules for semicolon and colon, pages 347, 348. 2. Review Nouns, page 216. 3. Review Nouns, pages 242–252. 4. Continue writing on your continued story. 5. Correct Usage, page 300. Drill on other common speech errors TWENTY-NINTH WEEK 1. Review Pronouns, pages 217, 218. 2. Review Pronouns, pages 252-273. 3. Rules for quotation marks and apostrophe, page 348. 4. Oral composition. Plan a program for a special day. 5. Write on some topic for the school paper (see pages 14-16). THIRTIETH WEEK Write 1. Study Business Letters, pages 352-355. Write a business letter 2. Revise your business letter. 3. Study Bills, Receipts, Checks, and Telegrams, pages 356-358. 5. Correct Usage under Pronouns, pages 260-263. THIRTY-FIRST WEEK 1. Write and exchange invitations and replies, both acceptances and 2. Review Verbs, pages 285-293. 3. Review Verbs, pages 293-300. 4. Continue writing on story. 5. Oral composition. Write reports about your work in domestic THIRTY-SECOND WEEK 1. Rules for Use of Capitals, pages 350, 351. 2. Write and mail a business letter (see page 356). 3. Review Adjectives, pages 311–314. 4. Review Adverbs, pages 314–317. 5. Continue writing on story. THIRTY-THIRD WEEK 1. Review Prepositions, pages 318, 319. 2. Have some of the best continued stories read in class. Class 3. Write on some topic of current interest for the school paper. 5. Review Business Letters, pages 352-356, and write a business THIRTY-FOURTH WEEK 1. Review Conjunctions, pages 331-334. 2. Write on some topic of school interest for the school paper. 4. Review Words without Organic Connection with the Sentence, 5. The school will plan a program. |