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"JOHN AND MARY. John lives in a small house. He is nice, neat boy. He has a little sister. Her name is Mary. One day John was helping his mother. When the work was done, his mother sent him on an errand. His sister went with him. When they came down the street they saw some boys throw stones at a kitten. The boys ran away from it to go after a big wagon which came by. Mary and John saw the poor little kitten, and took it home.Their mother gave them some milk for it. The little kitten is most afraid to drink the milk. I think boys should be kind to animals."

Identifier: picturesinlangua00weav (find matches)
Title: Pictures in language work
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Weaver, E. W. (from old catalog)
Subjects: English language
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., C. W. Bardeen
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS Story writing may be required before the pupilhas passed the third year; but in the fourth andfifth years, story writing may be made a specialaim. Description necessarily enters into everystory. Besides describing the appearance of thepersonages or objects when writing a story, thestory-writer gives their history, and the work ofteaching story-writing may be made of specialmoral value, if pupils are led to express their judg-ments of the actions or characters under considera-tion. By this time children should have learned theart of sentence-making and it should be possible tolead them to divide their composition into para-graphs. Suppose that a picture is assigned, and the sen-tences are written on the board as they are givenby the pupils. Afterwards, lead the pupils to col-lect the sentences that are related in thought, intoparagraphs. (36) FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS 37 The composition given below was selected from anumber that were written about the picture which
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is here given. The class had been drilled in this 38 PICTURES IN LANGUAGE WORK kind of work for nearly a year and had spent twoperiods of forty minutes each on this subject. JOHN AND MARY John lives in a small house. He is nice, neat boy. He has alittle sister. Her name is Mary. One day John was helping his mother. When the work wasdone, his mother sent him on an errand. His sister went withhim When they came down the street they saw some boys throwstones at a kitten. The boys ran away from it to go after a bigwagon which came by. Mary and John saw the poor little kitten, and took it home.Their mother gave them some milk for it. The little kitten ismost afraid to drink the milk. I think boys should be kind to animals. The following composition selected from a num-ber written about the picture on page 16, illustratesthe same point: THE POOR BOY Once there was a lady who was very poor. I suppose herhusband was dead, or she would not have been quite so poor.Her little son, whose name was

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