Methods and Materials for Composition in Intermediate and Grammar Grades (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III COPYING Very few pupils copy accurately. To correct this habit of inaccuracy, assign occasional lessons in copying, always giving worth-while selections, frequently requiring that they be memorized. Topics Treated Various types of stanzas of poetry Stanzas written as prose without capitals or punctuation Other types of material for copying Examples of suggested types Working for speed General Suggestions 1. Selections may be carefully written on the blackboard, hectographed, or typed. Perfect copies are essential. 2. The printed page may also be used, if it contains the material desired. 3. An assignment for copying should be quite brief and always worth while. 4. Absolute accuracy iu form, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization should be demanded. 5. Variety in form should be given; as, poetry, letters, prose, conversation, etc. 6. The selections given in Chapter XX, Memorizing, furnish good material for this kind of work. Suggestions for Copying Lessons Fob Form: 1. Stanzas of poetry arranged in couplets, not indented; as, The sun that brief December day, Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. ?Whittier 2. Scan/as with alternate lines rhyming, for indention of rhyming lines; as, The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of night, As a feather is wafted downward, From an eagle in his flight. ?Longfellow 3. Irregular stanzas, including both of the above; as, Merrily swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountainside or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name: Bob-o '-link, bob-o '-link, Spink, spank, spink; i Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer ...