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  • A Help to Young Writers

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    1838 printing of 1838 copyrighted text. This text on composition is for those who have already gained a knowledge of English grammar, particularly those in academies and elementary schools. Text states composition is rarely taught and teachers themselves are not required to compose well. It also claims students are often given subjects to write on which they know nothing about and that they think they must strive for originality. Real occasions of life after school or subjects drawn from the students' studies should be used. It is recommended that students be assigned a composition every week to be corrected by the teacher. Written as a catechism. Covers history of writing, beauty, taste, kinds of style (perspicuity, unity, harmony, strength, etc.) figurative language, and kinds of composition (letters, essays, orations, poetry, etc.). The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 129 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    President of a college
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/10/2020
    Date Created:
    1838
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Tarbell's Lessons in Language

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    Description/Abstract:
    1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Superintendent Public Schools, Providence, R.I. A collection of 343 lessons structured to develop language and grammar skills simultaneously for pupils of the higher grammar grades. Text considers the pupils needs first then that of the teacher followed, lastly, by the needs of the subject. Covers grammar as the science of the sentence and the elements of composition as the art of writing. The grammar part covers includes analysis and punctuation. The composition part covers the forms of epistolary, social, business, and parliamentary writing; it also provides for practice in writing through exercises in the selection and arrangement of words, in description, narration, reproduction, paraphrase, and essay-writing. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 299 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Tarbell, H. S. (Horace Sumner), 1838-1904
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Elementary English Composition

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    Description/Abstract:
    1900 printing of 1900 Canadian copyrighted text. The author is credited with a MA and a PhD. A school composition book that features verses for memorization and short themes that lead to a mix of lessons and exercises in discussing, correcting, and reproducing text. Sections cover kinds of narration (household tales, fables, biblical stories, classical myths, stories from ancient history, medieval stories, modern history stories, incidents); letter forms (business, social); description (plants, animals, buildings, landscapes, nature phenomena, persons, games); description and narration (the short story); exposition (how things are made, machines, definition of terms); and argument (pure argument, persuasion) Some pictorial illustrations included. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 222 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Sykes, Frederick Henry, 1863-1917
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/14/2020
    Date Created:
    1900
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • First Lessons in English, For the use of the Deaf

    Document thumbnail: First Lessons in English, For the use of the Deaf
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    1914 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. Published by the American Schools for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn. Volume three in a series by the author. The text follows a plan that introduces one difficulty at a time and to teach much rather than many things. This collection of lessons featuring pictorial illustrations, story analysis, and sentence diagrams. Lessons include review questions. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 120 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Sweet, Caroline C.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/12/2020
    Date Created:
    1914
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Practical Exercises in Composition

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    Description/Abstract:
    1889 copyrighted text. Strang is credited with a Bachelor of Arts degree. A collection of exercises based around vocabulary, language, and sentence structure. Exercises directions include: substitute words for phrases, change clauses, substitute equivalent expressions, expand simple sentences to complex, write compound and complex sentences, combine groups into sentences, break up sentences into groups, transpose into prose order, change from direct to indirect, paraphrase prose passages, and contract passages. The Schultz Archive is roughly the complete 90 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Eaton, J. Adair and Strang, H. I. (Hugh Innes), 1841-1919
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/12/2020
    Date Created:
    1889
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • First Lessons in English Composition

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    Description/Abstract:
    1856 printing of 1856 copyrighted text. The author is credited as of Mr. and Mrs. Smith's Female Seminary, St. Louis, MO. Preface states children should begin study of composition as soon as they can write, spell, and define. This study aims to teach the proper application of words together with spelling, including the use of pauses in certain situations. The second part introduces the most common parts of speech with some of their modifications and variations. The author wishes to teach learners to think and to advance in the art of writing their own language quickly and correctly through forming good habits. The lessons mostly consist of lists of words with corresponding fill-in- the-blank sentences as well as fill-in- the-blank sentences without the lists of words. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 131 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Smith, Spencer, Mrs.
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/12/2020
    Date Created:
    1856
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • A Manual of Elementary Instruction, for the use of public and private schools and nomral classes; containing a graduated course of object lessons for training the senses and developing the faculties of children.

    Document thumbnail: A Manual of Elementary Instruction, for the use of public and private schools and nomral classes; containing a graduated course of object lessons for training the senses and developing the faculties of children.
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    1869 printing of 1862 copyrighted text. Author is credited as Superintendent of Schools, Oswego, NY. Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Preface states text is a definite course of elementary instruction adapted to philosophic view of the "laws of childhood." Credits influence of Pestalozzi and is largely drawn (with permission) from the work of Elizabeth Mayo. Includes chapters on color, form, number, size, weight, and sound, as well as geography, lessons on the human body, lessons on animals, lessons on plants, moral instruction, and drawing. The Schultz Archive copy includes preface, TOC pages 13 – 25, 96 – 145, 226 – 239, 264 – 269, 316 – 365, 466 – 471.
    Creator/Author:
    Sheldon, E. A. (Edward Austin), 1823-1897
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/11/2020
    Date Created:
    1869
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Lessons in English: Book One

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    1906 copyrighted text. Scott is credited as Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Michigan. Southworth is credited as Superintendent of Schools, Somerville, Mass. Intended for use with 3rd – 6th grades. A collection of lessons designed to create a liking for good literature by presenting worthy selections to be read, studied, copied, and learned, to help children talk and write about the things they see, and to make children more and more observing through the use of illustrations for descriptive and imaginative writing. Additionally, book one aims to make correct expression habitual, secure the use of correct written forms by giving models for imitation, and to acquaint students with the elementary principals of grammar. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 238 page text.
    Creator/Author:
    Southworth, Gordon A. and Scott, Fred Newton, 1860-1931
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/11/2020
    Date Created:
    1906
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • Introductory Language Work: a simple, varied, and pleasing, but methodical, series of exercises in English to precede the study of technical grammar

    Document thumbnail: Introductory Language Work: a simple, varied, and pleasing, but methodical, series of exercises in English to precede the study of technical grammar
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    1891 printing of 1891 copyrighted text. The author is credited with a Master of Arts and as the author of several texts. The preface (A Talk with Teachers) argues that language should be taught directly, systematically, and persistently to students in the primary grades and that a textbook is a necessary tool to supplement oral instruction. It argues against the teaching of spelling and punctuation, technical grammar, pictures for stories, and poetry. Furthermore, excellence in language is attained through observation and practice, the observing of models of writing and the composing of original compositions. It focuses on: the sentence and the paragraph, chief parts and their helpers, the thought and language of the exercises, common errors, letter-writing, and opportunities for work. The Schultz Archive copy is perhaps the complete text. It contains roughly the first 253 pages of the text.
    Creator/Author:
    Reed, Alonzo, -1899
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/23/2016
    Date Modified:
    08/11/2020
    Date Created:
    1891
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0

  • An English Grammar for Children: according to the elementary method of Pestalozzi; containing easy lessons in composition, whereby young persons may acquire the habit of speaking and writing correctly

    Document thumbnail: An English Grammar for Children: according to the elementary method of Pestalozzi; containing easy lessons in composition, whereby young persons may acquire the habit of speaking and writing correctly
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    1827 printing of 1826 copyrighted text. The author is credited as an M.D. and as author of Outlines in Botany and as Principal of Cincinnati Female Academy. A grammar written for children's capacities that doesn't rely on memorization and parsing. The text maintains the definitions of Murray, but precedes each with a lesson written as a dialogue to prepare students for the definition. Follows Pestalozzi's method of object teaching where expression follows the ideas. Schultz Archive copy includes preface and a few pages on orthography and composition.
    Creator/Author:
    Locke, John, 1792-1856
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/20/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1827
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0