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A STORY TO FINISH

The organ grinder was playing his organ on the street corner. A crowd of boys had gathered to watch the monkey. Suddenly, a little fellow stole up and pulled the monkey's tail. Then

Several of you may make sentences, telling what happened next.

Vote for the best sentence.

Write it on the board.

Continue the story in this way. The best sentence in each case is to be written or the board.

When the story is finished, some one may read it aloud from the book and from the blackboard.

Give the story a title.

Write the title on the blackboard.

Be sure to leave a blank line between the title and the story.

Read the following sentences aloud, being careful to pronounce the right consonant sound at the end of the words taken from the above list.

1. I grew tired walking in the snow, but kept on because it was too cold to sit down to rest.

2. The soldiers slept heavily when they had a chance to lie down.

3. When the sentinel was on night duty, the hours crept slowly by.

What other words in these sentences end with the sound of t?

Make sentences, in turn around the class, using these words. Speak the ending of each word distinctly.

Read the following sentences aloud. What words ending in t and d must you be very careful to speak clearly?

1. The airplane flew at a height of three thousand feet.

2. I have just received a letter from my brother. 3. You must be very tired after your long journey. 4. He told us first one thing and then another. 5. All of the girls except Mary went to the party. 6. As soon as we entered the room we were told to sit down.

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REVIEWING WORD FORMS

GO, GOES, WENT, GONE

Two members of the class may come to the front of the room and read the following conversation, putting in the correct form of go wherever it is omitted. to school, Mary?"

"Has Robert "No, Fred, he has They

to the city with father. on the eight o'clock train."

"Your father always -on that train, doesn't he?" He and Uncle Frank both

on that train.

on it ever since we came to live in the

"Yes. They have

country."

Go and goes show present time.

Went shows past time.

Gone shows that the action is completed.

The word gone is helped by have, has, or had to show that the action is completed.

Remember that went is never helped by any other word. It must not be sent to do the work of gone. Write another conversation, using these words. Read it to the class.

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WRITING CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER WORD

FORMS

The class, working in pairs, will write conversations for the word forms that follow.

Millions of brave boys gave their lives for the cause of freedom in the great World War, but few, perhaps,

were mourned by so many people as was Quentin Roosevelt.

Quentin was the youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, and was born in Washington, November 19, 1897, when his father was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. When Roosevelt became President in 1901, Quentin went with his parents to live in the White House, and there he spent many happy years.

When he was six years old, he was sent to one of the public schools in Washington. There he became a great favorite, not because he lived in the White House, but because he was a real boy, full of fun and unspoiled by his father's position.

At recess he organized among his schoolmates a band of warrior Indians, who, when school was out, camped on the White House lawn. On one occasion, when his brother Archie was sick, Quentin thought that the sight of his pony would make him well. So he led the pony from the stables to the basement of the White House and took him upstairs in the elevator. Among Quentin's many friends was an old man who sold pet animals. In the store kept by this man, the little boy spent many happy hours, playing with the baby dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, and parrots.

When the war came, Quentin, who was studying at Harvard, applied for admission to the first Officers' Training Camp; but being refused on account of a slight defect in his eyesight, he went back to his studies. In 1917, when the United States entered the war, Quentin, determined to take part, enlisted in the Canadian Flying Corps. Three days later, however, he was accepted by the United States Aviation Corps.

On July 14, 1918, twelve battle-planes tried to break through the German aerial defenses over the Marne

river. One of the twelve, after making repeated attacks, was finally lost sight of by the other planes. In that plane was Quentin Roosevelt, who, attacked by two German planes, sent one of them crashing to the ground. The other, however, disabled Quentin's plane, which was seen to fall, the brave young aviator fighting to the end.

The Germans honored him with a military funeral and buried him where he fell on French soil, then occupied by the enemy. Only a few weeks passed before the French and Americans regained this section, and thousands of soldiers from both armies visited the grave of Quentin Roosevelt, the boy who, though only twenty years old, had given his life for his country.

When Colonel Roosevelt heard of his son's heroic death, he said, "Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he got to the front and had the chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him."

Who was Quentin Roosevelt?

Tell the story of his childhood.

Tell of his entrance into the war.

Why do we know him as one of the heroes of the war? Do you know of any other heroes of the great World War? Tell how they proved themselves heroes. Do you know of any heroes who were not in the war? Tell what they did.

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WRITING ABOUT HEROIC DEEDS

Write a paragraph about a heroic deed which you have heard of. The following suggestions may help.