1. What is the best part of the account on the board?
2. Is anything important left out?
3. Could anything be left out because it is not needed?
4. Are too many and's used?
5. What could be added to make the account better?
Written Exercise. When all the accounts on the board have been rewritten, study the one the teacher selects. Notice the spelling of the hard words. Notice the capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and the punctuation mark at the end of each sentence. This study will make it easier for you to write the account from dictation without making any mistakes. Write it from dictation.
36. Study of a Poem
You remember, of course, that the house of snow in which Eskimos live has only one window. But this is only a hole in the wall, covered with a thin skin. There is no glass in it. So the little Eskimo boys and girls do not know the wonderful things that Jack Frost sometimes pencils on the windowpanes when children are asleep. The Eskimo children could not understand the poem below. But you have seen these sights on your own windows—castles, high and rocky places, knights with waving plumes, and trees and fruits and flowers. You will learn from the poem how Jack Frost paints them there.[9]
JACK FROST
The door was shut, as doors should be,
Before you went to bed last night;
Yet Jack Frost did get in, you see,
And left your window silver white.
He must have waited till you slept;
And not a single word he spoke,
But pencilled on the panes, and crept
Away again before you woke.
And now you cannot see the hills
Nor fields that stretch beyond the lane;
But there are fairer things than those
His fingers traced on every pane.