Intermediate Language Lessons (Lost Classics Book Company) - Softcover

Serl, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965273571 ISBN 13: 9780965273572

Publisher: Applewood Books, 2001

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to aid pupils to speak and write the English language correctly. The book is intended especially for use of pupils in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. It may, however, be adjusted to suit different conditions found in more advanced classes. If "Primary Language Lessons" was used in the last half of the second grade and through the third, the pupil is well prepared to begin "Intermediate Language Lessons," in the fourth grade. Content covers literature studies, letter writing, correct forms of speech and words often misused, vocabulary, outlines, oral and written composition, capitalization and punctuation, civic subjects, such as the school, the court, the state, etc. When an essential fact is taught, the pupil is given practice in using the fact again and again, through dictation, reproduction, and original composition.

About this title

From the Back Cover

How to teach your children good English.

The second volume of Emma Serls language series makes it easy to teach during the often difficult intermediate years.

Emma Serls Intermediate Language Lessons is designed for teaching 4th, 5th and 6th grades. As she does with the first volume of her series, Primary Language Lessons, Ms. Serl uses material that both teaches and captures the interest of children. You find the writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Tennyson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Shelley, George MacDonald, Edward Everett Hale and other outstanding authors here. You get imaginative work projects that either reinforce the lessons or direct the child to independent research on topics as varied as coal and birds nests.

As comprehensive a teaching tool as you could hope for; Intermediate Language Lessons includes a broad range of lessons that encompass every aspect of teaching English including: Literature and poetry studies, Letter writing, Creating an outline, Grammar and word usage, All forms of composition, Memorization and oral presentation, Debating, Dictation.

BONUS! Emma Serl uses prominent paintings to help instruct children in observation and discussion. Result: a minicourse in art appreciation as well as English.

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LESSON 3

SELECTION FOR STUDY

The Stone in the Road

There was once a king who lived in a beautiful palace near a little village. He loved the people in the village and tried in many ways to help them.

But the people were selfish and did not try to help one another. The good king wished to teach them a lesson, so he arose early one morning and placed a large stone in the road which led past his palace. Then, hiding himself nearby, he watched to see what would happen.

Soon a woman came along driving some goats to pasture. She scolded because the stone was in the way, and stepping over it she went on up the road.

By and by a man came, riding a donkey. He complained about the stone but drove around it and went on his way.

Other people came and went. Each remarked about the stone, but no one tried to move it.

At last, when the day was almost ended, the millers boy came down the road. Seeing the stone he halted and put down the bundle he was carrying.

This stone should not be here, he said. Someone might fall over it. I will move it out of the way.

The stone was heavy, and the boy could scarcely lift it. But by repeated efforts he at last pushed it from its place and rolled it to one side. As he turned to continue on his way, he saw that in the place where the stone had been there was a bag upon which something was written. Bending closer he read these words: This bag of gold belongs to the one who helps others by removing the stone from the road.

The millers boy carried his treasure homeward with a happy heart, and as the king returned to his palace he said, I am glad that I have found someone who is unselfish enough to think of the comfort of others.

1. Tell the story, from the following outline:

A. The king

B. The people

C. The stone in the road

D. The people who passed

E. The millers boy

F. The bag of gold

2. Read, in the last part of the story, what the king said.

3. With what kind of letter is the word I always written?

4. Make a rule for this use of the capital letter.

LESSON 4

SELECTION TO BE MEMORIZED

True worth is in being, not seeming;

In doing each day that goes by

Some little good; not in the dreaming

Of great things to do by and by.

For whatever men say in their blindness,

And spite of the fancies of youth,

Theres nothing so kingly as kindness,

And nothing so royal as truth.

- Alice Cary

1. Copy the quotation and memorize it.

LESSON 5

Composition A Prince Story

1. Read the story, The Stone in the Road, then make a similar story about a prince and a beautiful jewel. The prince places the jewel in a bucket far down in a deep well, then he dresses himself up as a poor old man and asks all who pass to draw water for him to drink.

2. Make an outline of your story.

3. Tell the story from the outline.

4. Begin your story in this way: Once upon a time, a prince ____________________.

Edition details

• Publisher: Applewood Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0965273571
• ISBN 13: 9780965273572
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 344