azine, and any other material the library or the home can furnish. This committee should weigh the relative advantages offered by various sections, and decide on the ones that seem promising. Fifteen or twenty different stops may be recommended, in order to give each member of the club an opportunity to work up material on a different place. This committee's report may be made orally, but a summary should be written and handed to the secretary. When the report is submitted to the club and accepted or amended, the different stages of the journey should be assigned to members of the club.

Working Up Special Assignments. - Each club member who has a special assignment must then get to work to give an interesting report on the place appointed to him. Read whatever the books in the school library or your own library contribute to your special topic; but in addition to that write to the Chamber of Commerce of the city you are interested in and ask for descriptive material. Talk with any one of your acquaintances who has been there. Sometimes you can get interesting information by writing to a member of a school in the city you are studying.

When you have gathered all the information you can about your topic, plan to present it in an original and interesting manner, so that it shall not sound like dry facts gathered from an encyclopedia, but like a real experience you have actually had. It is generally wise to avoid statistics. If you are reporting on Hollywood, the first thing of importance is the moving-picture industry. The personalities of the moving-picture "stars," their queer make-up for the pictures, the part they take in the life of the town these things are more interesting than the miles of paved streets and the annual tax rate of Hollywood.

A GEOGRAPHY PROJECT

EXERCISE

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1. Write a letter to the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco asking for descriptive material about the city.

2. Write a letter to the Santa Fe Railroad asking for a booklet describing the Grand Canyon.

3. Write a letter to a pupil of the seventh grade in Santa Fe, New Mexico, asking for information about the city and for any pictures he may be able to send.

4. Write a letter to a pupil of the seventh grade of El Paso, Texas, asking about bullfights across the border.

5. After you have given your oral account of the place assigned you, write a report on it to be used in a booklet made by the club.

OTHER TOPICS FOR PROJECTS

A detailed study of

1. From a Pound of Wheat to a Loaf of Bread. a large wheat farm of the Middle West, the transportation of the wheat to Minneapolis, the processes of converting the wheat into flour and the flour into bread. Each detail of these processes may be studied and reported on by individual pupils. Bulletins of the Department of Agriculture may be consulted.

2. A Day with a Forest Ranger. – The location of the national forests, the reason for forest preserves, the prevention of forest fires. The life of a forester may be fruitful material for several pupils to study and report on.

3. Indians of the Present Day. - Different pupils may take the different tribes of Indians still surviving and show where they live, the change in their habits and customs, the provision the United States makes for educating them, their means of support, and reasons for failure to make greater advancement.

4. The Yellowstone National Park. Government bulletins describing the various national parks can be obtained by writing to the Department of the Interior.

5. The Steel Industry. — A wealth of material about the mining of ore, the transportation of ore and coal, converting of the ore into pig iron and then into steel, and the various adaptations of steel to different purposes can be found.

Ask the librarian of your school library or public library for books and other publications.

The Use of Reference Books. If you are looking up a special topic you must economize your time, for of course you have not time to read all you can find. If, for example, your special topic is the ostrich farms of California, the way to begin work is to turn to the index of the book you are consulting and look for Ostrich or Ostrich Farm. When you see on what page that topic is treated, turn to it and read just what is said about the ostrich and no more. Then take another book and follow the same plan. As you read you should make notes of the important things you wish to remember, and the name of the book from which each fact is taken.

It is very easy to waste time by following some other topic that may strike your eye, but you cannot afford to do that. Stick to your topic and skip the others.

These and those are adjectives used to point out nouns. Them is a pronoun sometimes incorrectly used instead of these or those. Never use them to modify a noun.

EXERCISE

Fill the blanks in the following sentences with these or those: I. I like

2. Are

pictures better than

apples in that basket sour?

girls are my friends.

fish over there as large as the ones we caught?

3.

4. Are

Dear Mother,

I thought I would write you a few lines before I go to work. I am making a chicken coop. On Saturday evening some one stole seven of our hens and one rooster, so I thought we should have a burglar-proof coop for the rest of the chickens. We are trying to find out who stole them, but have no clues yet.

I think I shall be home for Easter, and wish that you would send someone to the station to meet me. I am going to bring you twelve dozen eggs and some butter.

We are all well except Minnie. She has had a bad cold, but is getting better now. She is still in bed and Aunt Lizzie is going to keep her in for fear that she may catch the grippe.

We were in town yesterday and got some things we needed. I bought a good pair of shoes for four dollars and a half.

coop.

Well, I must close now, for I must get to work on my chicken

Your loving son,

Frank

Union City, Tenn.
November 10, 1922

Dear Frances,

You ought to have been here last week to go with us to Nashville. I had never been there before, so everything seemed wonderful to me. Mother and father took us children over for the week-end, and we stayed at the hotel. Lucy and I had lots of fun hiding from each other in the corridors, as they call the long halls. I liked to eat in the hotel, too, in the big dining room full of people, with a waiter right by our side all the time to see that we got everything we wanted.

We went to the Capitol and climbed about a thousand steps to the top of the dome, where we had a fine view of the city. Then we took a taxicab and drove out to Centennial Park. It is the prettiest place I ever saw. There is a large artificial lake in the center, with a beautiful building on its shores. The guide told us that this building is a copy of the Parthenon in Athens. Some day maybe we can see the original building, but the guide said it was all in ruins now. I like new buildings better than ruins, don't you?

I won't try to tell you all we saw and did, because it would take too long; but Nashville certainly is a beautiful place. Father said that if I got through high school all right he would send me to college in Nashville. Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe you can go too.

We are hoping that you will spend Thanksgiving Day with us, and you must be sure to come. Mother said we might have a party, and we will surely have a good time.

Write to me soon and tell me all about the new pony.

Your friend,

Sallie Thomas