ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE 8? 



Subjects for compositions are made as varied as possible 

 within the scope of the children's knowledge : some familiar 

 work or exercise ; the noted pictures, studied during the term 

 from reproductions on the walls of the schoolroom, or from 

 the small Brown and Perry pictures; original stories of 

 some event; phrases suggestive of some occurrence, as, in 

 the woods, under an old oak, beside the stream; a list of 

 words to be used in a story, as, toad, cellar, pile of bricks, 

 pan of milk, coal-man ; a familiar occurrence, as, a Stockton 

 flood, spearing wood, a tramp in the woods. 



That use is the keynote of the sixth grade language les- 

 sons is shown by the number of the compositions in the 

 year's notebooks. These are first drafts, self-corrected, or 

 revised by the teacher, three necessary phases of progress 

 in composition. There are also many lists of grammatical 

 points, as exercises on pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prin- 

 cipal parts of commonly used verbs, diagrams of easy sen- 

 tences, and application in illustrative sentences of the points 

 studied. A few of these exercises are appended. 



COMBINING SENTENCES 



He drew a picture of his home. It showed the house. 

 He was born in it. It also showed the barn. The orchard 

 was also to be seen. 



The picture he drew of his home showed the house which 

 he was born in, the barn, and the orchard. 



The orchard, barn, and the house he was born in were 

 all shown in the picture he drew of his home. 



He reached his home. He gave orders. He was not to 



