[Let the pupils study these directions and questions before reciting. In class the questions may be asked by either teacher or pupils, using books at option. The answers are to be in complete sentences.]

1. State your teacher's name.

2. State one thing she does in the morning.

3. How many pupils in your school?

4. When do you study your reading lesson?

5. Where do you eat your lunch?

6. State one game that you play at recess.

7. When do the boys fly kites?

8. Make a statement about your school house.

9. How many windows has your school room?

10. Tell something about the boy who sits next to you. 11. Give the names of two things which you saw on your way to school.

12. Make a statement about each of them. 13. Why do you like to come to school?

LESSON 4.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

[The teacher may write five of the best answers to questions in Lesson 3 on slips of paper or on the blackboard for class to copy.]

Memorize :

SUMMARY.

To STATE means to SAY or TELL.

A group of words which says or tells something is a STATEMENT. A Statement should begin with a capital and end with a period.

[Develop the idea of the Question, from the following lesson, and teach the term.]

1. Say something about the boy.

2. Ask something about the boy.

3. Tell me what the dog and cat are doing.
4. Ask something about the dog.

5. Ask two things about the cat.
6. Ask two things about the house.

7. Ask a question about the cart.

8. Ask another question about the picture.
9. Tell me what the following sentence does:

The cat does not like to pull the wagon.

10. What does this sentence do:

Of what is the harness made?

11. Which of the following sentences is a statement, and which is a question:

1. The boy has a whip.

2. What does the cat do?

THE QUESTION.

LESSON 6.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Copy these questions:

1. What do you think of this team? 2. Which one does not like to pull?

3. With what does the boy guide them?

4. Why do you think the boy does not ride?

5. Where do you think the boy wants to go?

Look carefully at each question that you have copied.
With what mark does each question end?
How does each question begin?

11

SUMMARY.

Memorize :

A Group of Words that asks something is a QUESTION.

A Question should begin with a capital and end with a question mark.

LESSON 7.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Copy the following, and close each with the proper mark:

1. Are those boys going home

2. Who has seen my hat

3. Where did you find those flowers

4. Is Emma studying her lesson

5. What is the name of that boy

Copy the following, and close each with the proper mark:

1. Sara has a new book

2. Do the stars shine at night

3. Can those birds fly very high

4. Our books are all lost
5. Which way did Phebe go

[These lessons may be varied by writing each word on a slip of paper and giving the words of one group to a pupil to be arranged in statements or questions; the words of another group to another pupil, and so on.]

Make questions of these words:

5. holding girl the her dog is

Make statements of each of these groups of words, then make

a question of each:

1. in are

a boat children

these

2. row boat the boy the can
3. holding girl the her dog is
4. fine having

they time

are

a

5. an

in has

hand the each oar

boy

[Let the teacher write names on the board as they are given in answer to the questions below. The lesson should be supplemented by exercises on names of objects in the school room, articles of dress, tools, furniture, etc.]

1. Give the names of four animals that you see in the picture.