FOURTH YEAR
FIRST WEEK
Monday
Write five sentences telling about good manners in the school-room.
Tuesday
Describe, orally, some game you know how to play.
Wednesday
Copy the following from Whittier’s “The Barefoot Boy”:
How the tortoise bears his shell,
How the woodchuck digs his cell,
How the ground-mole sinks his well,
How the robin feeds her young,
How the oriole’s nest is hung;
Where the whitest lilies blow,
Where the freshest berries grow,
Where the ground-nut trails its vine,
Where the wood-grape’s clusters shine.
Thursday
Write sentences explaining each reference in the poem copied yesterday. For example, “How the tortoise bears his shell”—The tortoise carries his shell on his back.
Friday
Have pupils dramatize “Little Red Riding Hood,” without preparation, and in their own way.
SECOND WEEK
Monday
For dictation:
Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the leaves are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
—William Cullen Bryant
Tuesday
Proverbs, to be copied and committed to memory:
He who does his best, does well.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Make hay while the sun shines.
More haste, less speed.
Waste not, want not.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Better late than never.
Look before you leap.
Honesty is the best policy.
Wednesday
Write a composition about “Sparrows.”
Thursday
Write a telegram, congratulating either President Taft or Governor Wilson upon his nomination for President.
Friday
Conversation on how we can tell that Fall and Winter are coming.
THIRD WEEK
Monday
Copy the following from “Hiawatha.”
THE FEAST OF MONDAMIN
And the maize-field grew and ripened,
Till it stood in all the splendor
Of its garments green and yellow,
Of its tassels and its plumage,
And the maize-ears full and shining
Gleamed from bursting sheaths of verdure.
Then Nokomis, the old woman,
Spake and said to Minnehaha:
“Tis the Moon when leaves are falling;
All the wild rice has been gathered,
And the maize is ripe and ready;
Let us gather in the harvest,
Let us wrestle with Mondamin,
Strip him of his plume and tassels,
Of his garments green and yellow.”
Tuesday
Commit to memory the selection from “Hiawatha.”
Wednesday
Conversation on the meaning of the “Mondamin” story.
Thursday
Write a story on “Corn—How It Grows.”
Friday
Write ten sentences about the uses of corn.
FOURTH WEEK
Monday
Write the abbreviations for month, year, the days of the week, the months of the year.
Tuesday
For dictation:
Chestnuts in the ashes
Bursting through the rind,
Red leaf and yellow leaf
Rustling down the wind;
Mother “doin’ peaches”
All the afternoon—
Don’t you think that Autumn’s
Pleasanter than June?
Wednesday
Write five reasons why autumn is pleasanter than June.
Thursday
Write ten sentences containing the word blue.
Friday
Write a rhyme of four lines about apples.