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  • Exercises in English

    Document thumbnail: Exercises in English
    Type:
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    Description/Abstract:
    Revised edition, 1904 copyrighted text. The author is credited as Principal of the George G. Meade Grammar School. Preface begins by acknowledging that textbooks don't succeed in teaching grammar, providing students with examples of false syntax is unproductive, students learn language outside the classroom, so in the classroom they should be given correct forms of use. The work has 280 exercises using pictorial illustrations; questions; prompting statements, paragraphs to be summarized or paraphrased; words to be described, defined, rearranged, or used in sentences; fill in the blanks; and other prompts for writing and phrase combining. The book credits school periodicals as sources for its exercises, such as Canadian School Journal, the New England Journal of Education, and the School Journal Intelligence. A handbook that emphasizes a wide assortment of exercises for grammar practice.
    Creator/Author:
    Gideon, Edward
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/02/2019
    Date Created:
    1904
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Lessons in Language

    Document thumbnail: Lessons in Language
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    No printing date given. Copyrighted 1888. The author is credited as Principal of the George S. Meade Grammar School Philadelphia. The book purports to train young students to use their own simply vocabulary to compose properly-expressed sentences, as well as oral and written stories and descriptions, while also gradually expanding their vocabularies. Questions accompany detailed pictorial illustrations or short textual examples, some of which are abridged versions of Aesop's fables, to encourage thought and prompt elaboration or storytelling. There are 82 lessons in all. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete text.
    Creator/Author:
    Gideon, Edward
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/18/2016
    Date Modified:
    06/12/2019
    Date Created:
    1888
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0