LITERATURE IN GRAMMAR GRADES 31 



or quoting, and the elevation of thought and language is 



very evident. 



WORD STUDY LESSON. 



I. Schooner, sharp built vessel, having two or more masts. 

 2. Skipper, master of a small vessel. 3. Helm, instrument 

 for steering a ship. 4. Veering flaw, changing wind. 



(This careful defining of words is a frequent exercise, 

 every lesson containing from fifteen to twenty-five words.) 



SIMILES. 



As the fairy flax. As the hawthorn buds. Like yeast. 

 Like the dawn of day. Like a frightened steed. Like a 

 sheeted ghost. Like icicles from her deck. As carded wool. 

 Like the horns of an angry bull. Like a vessel of glass. 



SIXTH YEAR GRADE 



Literature and history are still alternated in this grade in 

 periods of ten weeks each. Whittier is the poet for the year. 

 M . . . The first ten weeks are given to several 



short poems and " Snow-Bound " ; during 

 the second literature period some more of the short poems 

 and " Among the Hills " are read. It is desirable that the 

 teacher plan to keep before the pupils the complete thought 

 of a short poem, and of every division of a long poem. This 

 is more important as the works read grow longer and the 

 opportunities for intensive study increase. There is great 

 pleasure for pupils in " Snow-Bound " and " Among the 

 Hills," provided that the methods and difficulties belonging 

 to maturer study are not forced upon their young minds. 

 Many involved sentence constructions are readily mastered 

 by grammatical analyses ; that is, by connecting subject with 

 predicate, locating modifiers, or by using simple diagrams. 



