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THE WORDS I AND 0.

LESSON 17.

THE WORDS I AND 0.

ORAL EXERCISE.

Answer in complete sentences:

1. What is your name? 2. Where do you live?

3. How old are you?

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4. What did you eat for your lunch?

How many times did

ing these questions?

you use your own name in answer

What word did you use in place of your own name? How is the word I written in each of the following statements:

1. How ardent I seized it.

2. Come, and I will show you what is beautiful.

3. I see! I see! said the little man, I see!

How is the word O written in each of the following statements:

1. O how beautiful is the summer night.

2. It snows, cries the widow, O God.

3. Exult, then, O Sun! in the strength of thy youth.

How are the words I and O written in your Reader?

LESSON 18.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

1. Use the word I in making five statements about things you can hear.

2. Use the word I in asking five questions about things you would like to do.

3. Make five statements using the word O.

Memorize :

SUMMARY.

The words I and O should be Capital letters.

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1. Write three questions about this picture.

2. Write answers to your questions.

3. Write the special names of the boy and the dog.

4. Write the special name of the town in which you think the boy lives.

5. Write the initials of the boy's name.

6. Make a statement and a question of this group of words:

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to boy the his stick dog is the

LESSON 20.

DAYS OF THE WEEK.

ORAL EXERCISE.

[Give thorough drill on the spelling and pronunciation of these names.]

1. What day do we go to church?

2. On which day of the week is there no school? 3. Name all the school days.

DAYS OF THE WEEK.

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4. How many days in the week?

5. Name them.

6. What day is called the "day of rest?"

7. Tell something about Monday.

8. Make a statement, using the names of three days of the week.

LESSON 21.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

[Let the children read this aloud before answering questions.]

Seven days with sunshine laden
For each little man and maiden;
Seven days with pleasure rife,

These make up the children's life.

Sunday bonny, blithe, and gay,
Drives all wicked sprites away;
Monday dawns a trifle blue,
Tuesday wears a brighter hue;
Wednesday's full of fun and merry,
Thursday grumbles-I'm sorry-very;
Busy Friday likes to work,

But naughty Saturday's a shirk.

Answer each of these questions by writing one name:

1. Which is the lazy day?

2. Which day is merry and full of fun?

3. Which is the good day?

4. Which day likes to work?

5. Which is the grumbling day?

6. Which day feels sad?

7. Which day have you not yet written?

8. Write these names again in their proper order.

SUMMARY.

Memorize :

The names of the days of the week should always begin with Capitals.

LESSON 22.

USE OF THE COMMA.

ORAL EXERCISE.

1. Peaches, plums, and grapes grow in California.

2. Horses, cows, and sheep eat grass.

3. The farmer uses a hoe, a rake, a spade, and a plow. 4. Susan, Ella, Robert, and Dan have gone to the coast.

In the first sentence what three things are mentioned one after another? In the second?

How many things are so mentioned in the third statement? In the fourth?

By what mark are these words separated in the first statement?

Look closely at the other statements, then tell what marks you find and how they are used.

SUMMARY.

Memorize :

Three or more things mentioned one after another make a SERIES, The words in a series are separated by commas.

LESSON 23.

WRITTEN EXERCISE.

Fill these blanks with series of words:

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Use each of these series of words in a question:

1. roses, pinks, violets, and daisies.

2. robins, linnets, and swallows.

3. run, jump, and play.

4. Monterey, Gilroy, and Oakland,

COMBINING STATEMENTS.

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Select the series in each of these statements and questions, and write it by itself:

1. Pens, pencils, books, and slates are used in school. 2. Millie can read, spell, write, and sing.

3. Do boys like tops, marbles, and kites?

4. Lily, Add, James, Fred, and Harry are at grandma's. 5. Where are father's hat, coat, and cane?

LESSON 24.

COMBINING STATEMENTS.

ORAL EXERCISE.

I like peaches.

I like cherries.

I like grapes.

I like apples.

How many times have we used the words I like in these four statements?

Tell these four things in such a way that we need not say I like more than once.

What new word have we put in this statement?

Give the statement, using and only once. Which sounds better?

How many names have we in our statement?

What do we call several names mentioned one after another?

Make one statement of each of the following pairs of statements:

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