Oral Composition.
_Thursday_--V, 1-14. Written Composition.
_Friday_--Speaking. Speaking.

[6] SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS:

1. Inspect notebooks frequently.

2. Do not forget home-reading.

3. Be careful to assign a definite task each day.

4. Do not forget the minutes of the previous meeting.

5. Call on everybody every day, even if it is only to recite one
line of a poem.

6. Don't do the reciting yourself. Give the class a chance. Make
them assume responsibility. Require them to rewrite themes until
they are perfect in technique, but do not bother too much to
point out their errors. Let the pupils discover them.

7. Chapters V, VI, and XII of Book I should be reviewed at frequent
intervals until their contents become as familiar as the
alphabet. This result can be obtained only by time and
persistency. Before it is reached, the average pupil will have
learned and forgotten over and over again the material involved.
These chapters may sometimes be reviewed as wholes, but it is
also well to take a small section of each daily.

VIII. Memorize

THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen;
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved and forever grew still!

* * * * *

And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentiles, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
LORD BYRON.

CHAPTER XII

DRAMATIC NOTICES

"To hold the mirror up to Nature."
SHAKESPEARE.

I. Assignment

Write a notice of one of the plays now on the local stage.

II. Explanation

To keep its readers informed of the character of the plays being
presented at local theaters