COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY All rights reserved BOL. ADV. LESS. IN EV. ENG. W. P. I NIMMEZOIV HIS is a practice book to train the language power of THIS boys and girls. Composition is an art; and it is only through repeated practice, well motivated, that skill in any art is attained. We learn by "doing." The author has kept constantly in mind the actual language needs of everyday life, the nature of the boy and the girl, the really used matters of theory, and the most advanced pedagogical thought as expressed in progressive courses of study and investigations. The three main objects of the book are: (1) to make correct language habits automatic; (2) to develop the pupil's thinking power and to give him richer backgrounds of life; and (3) to make him enjoy his work by weaving language around the doing of real things — projects. The book contains work for two years of the upper elementary grades, developed in twenty projects. The special features are: 1. Forty projects adapted for class work—each providing opportunity for "purposeful activity" on the part of the class and exercise of individual initiative. 2. The socialized recitation-club organization, class as audience, coöperative team work, discussion groups, program periods, committee work, and voting. 3. Individual differences in pupils - recognized and frequently provided for in the assignments. 4. Training in thought-getting and organization — preventing failure by systematic getting and organizing of ideas. 5. Much supervised class work and teaching of how to studygiving the concrete demonstration that the poor pupil needs. 373604 MAR 157 6. Definite units of assignment-focused so as to be well within the grasp of the class. 7. Timely exercises - developed so as to be opportune for schools having either annual or semiannual promotions. 8. The illustrative models, fresh material of everyday valueselections from newspapers and magazines as well as from books. 9. The use of pictures and devices for teaching purposes. 10. Community interests woven into language work - Health Posters, Fire Prevention, Protecting the Birds, Red Cross, Clean-up Week, Safety First and Scout campaigns, Good-English Drives, Community Guide Book, Junior Civic League, etc. II. Americanism emphasized from cover to cover-in discussion, assignments, dramatizations. The selections by Edward Rowland Sill, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Elliot Griffis, John Burroughs, and Dallas Lore Sharp are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of their works. Selections from "Birds through the Year," "Four American Inventors," "Stories from Life," "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans," "Stories of American Life and Adventure," "The Story of the Forest," and "Thirty More Famous Stories Retold" are reprinted from copyright books published by the American Book Company. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Miss Helen Keller, the Hon. Charles E. Hughes, Dr. John H. Finley, Edwin Markham, Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, Hamlin Garland, and William Tyler Page for permission to use extracts from their writings; also to Mr. Thomas B. Harned for a poem by Walt Whitman, and to Mr. James G. Cutler for a poem by Henry Abbey. |