3O METHODS IN TEACHING 



He was lashed to the helm all stiff and stark and a lantern 

 gleamed on his fixed and glassy eyes. When the child saw 

 her father was dead she prayed that she might be saved, and 

 she thought of Christ who stilled the wave on the Lake of 

 Galilee. 



The vessel swept through the sleet and snow tow'rds the 

 reef of Norman's Woe. 



The vessel struck on some rocks, and like a vessel of glass 

 she stove and sank. In the morning a fisherman stood on 

 the shore aghast to see the beautiful child lashed to a drift- 

 ing mast. The tears were frozen on her eyes and her hair 

 like the brown sea-weed floating on the waves. 



" Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, 



In the midnight and the snow 

 Christ save us all from a death like this 

 On the reef of Norman's Woe." 



In ordinary class work this paper, which is presented in 

 uncorrected form, would be returned to its writer for per- 

 sonal correction. Omitted words would be supplied in all 

 cases, probably, with a possible exception in the last sentence, 

 where the child's ear might not recognize the necessity of 

 the verb in connection with " floating." 



Sentence structure, so difficult a problem for children, is 

 faulty in the repetition of " and." There is excellent drill 

 for the class in putting such sentences on the board and in 

 having the pupils develop better structures by the omission 

 of "and" or by the use of relative pronouns or adverbial 

 connectives. 



There can be no objection to the use of the poet's own 

 words in such a paper. The child is consciously reproducing 



