EXERCISE
1. Select some topic briefly mentioned in the history text you study. Look up a more extended account of it and come to the class prepared to recite the topic orally. Make your report clear, concise, and interesting. Decide beforehand just what facts you will relate and in what order. (See Sections 39, 52, 53.)
+Theme LXXXI.+—Come to class prepared to write upon some topic assigned by the teacher, or upon one of the following:—
1. Pontiac's conspiracy. 2. The battle of Marathon. 3. The Boston tea party. 4. The battle of Bannockburn. 5. Sherman's march to the sea. 6. Passage of the Alps by Napoleon.
(Is your narrative told in an interesting way? Are any facts necessary to the clear understanding of it omitted?)