XVlil ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



V. FORMS OF EXPRESSION (Continued) PAGE 



F. Painting 250 



1. Function to express color. 



2. Difficulties. 



G. Language 250 



1. Importance the most general means of expres- 



sion. 



2. Difficulties in expressing by means of language. 



3. Value to express life, action, function, aesthetic, 



ethical, and spiritual ideas. 



4. Varieties of language expression and their use. 



a. Description impersonal. 



b . Narration personal. 



c. Personification exercises imagination. 



H. Resume of relative use and value of above forms of 



expression 254 



V. ESSENTIALS IN ALL EXPRESSION AND SUGGESTION FOR EX- 

 PRESSIVE WORK 255 



A. Individuality 256 



B. Truthfulness 258 



C. Clearness 261 



D. Order . 262 



VI. LIMITATIONS OF NATURE STUDY AS A BASIS FOR EXPRESSIVE 



WORK OF SCHOOL 263 



CHAPTER XII. 

 Relation of Nature Study to Reading and Literature. 



V I. THE PRIMARY READING-LESSON BASED ON NATURE STUDY, 265 



A. Purpose . , 265 



1. To help jBx important ideas. 



2. To give pupils practice in, 



a. Expressing ideas in language. 



b. Gaining ideas through language. 



3. To serve as models for individual expressive work. 



B. Essentials in primary reading-lessons 267 



1. Should contain best ideas in best form. 



2. Should be in accord with principles already dis- 



cussed. 



a. Should be based on perception and apper- 



ception. 



b. Should exercise imagination. 



c. Should have sequence and unity. 



3. Value of narration and personification. 



4. Should be truthful, clear, and orderly. 



