3. You and your classmates might make an interesting dog picture book. After writing about each dog, you could draw his picture or cut it out of a magazine and paste it beside what you have written.[55]
48. Study of a Picture Story
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Oral Exercise. 1. What is happening in the first picture on the next page? Does the dog want to go along? Why do the boys not take him?
2. Make believe that you are the boy on the back seat in the boat. Look at the dog as that boy looks at him. Hold up your finger as the boy does. What does that mean? Now, as your boat slowly moves from shore, talk to the dog. Are you sorry that he must stay? How do you show that? Do you sternly warn him not to leave his post?
Group Exercise. 1. Some of your classmates will now play that they are talking to the dog. Each tries to show how it really happened.
2. The class will tell what it likes in each pupil's talking and playing, and what it does not like. The following questions will help the class:
1. Did the pupil talk as he really would talk to his dog if the class were not there to hear him?
2. What was the best thing he said?
3. What might he have said that he left out?