Intermediate Language Lessons

by Emma Serl, Margot Davidson

Overview

Reprint of Emma Serl's classic language program for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade. Includes writing, oral composition, dictation, copywork, conversation, letter writing, parts of speech, and picture study lessons. Revisions include an expanded sixth grade section, color pictures, and larger format.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979846908
Publisher:	Hillside Education
Publication date:	08/16/2012
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.53(d)
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

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LESSON 3

SELECTION FOR STUDY
The Stone in the Road
There was once a king who lived in a beautiful palace near a little village. He loved the people in the village and tried in many ways to help them. But the people were selfish and did not try to help one another. The good king wished to teach them a lesson, so he arose early one morning and placed a large stone in the road which led past his palace. Then, hiding himself nearby, he watched to see what would happen. Soon a woman came along driving some goats to pasture. She scolded because the stone was in the way, and stepping over it she went on up the road. By and by a man came, riding a donkey. He complained about the stone but drove around it and went on his way. Other people came and went. Each remarked about the stone, but no one tried to move it. At last, when the day was almost ended, the miller's boy came down the road. Seeing the stone he halted and put down the bundle he was carrying. "This stone should not be here," he said. "Someone might fall over it. I will move it out of the way." The stone was heavy, and the boy could scarcely lift it. But by repeated efforts he at last pushed it from its place and rolled it to one side. As he turned to continue on his way, he saw that in the place where the stone had been there was a bag upon which something was written. Bending closer he read these words: "This bag of gold belongs to the one who helps others by removing the stone from the road." The miller's boy carried his treasure homeward with a happy heart, and as the king returned to his palace he said, "I am glad that I have found someone who is unselfish enough to think of the comfort of others."
1. Tell the story, from the following outline:

A. The king

B. The people

C. The stone in the road

D. The people who passed

E. The miller's boy

F. The bag of gold
2. Read, in the last part of the story, what the king said.
3. With what kind of letter is the word I always written?
4. Make a rule for this use of the capital letter.

Table of Contents

1. Selection for Study - The Finding of Moses
2. Names of Persons and Places
3. Selection for Study - The Stone in the Road
4. Selection to Be Memorized
5. Composition - A Prince Story
6. Selection for Study - The Wise Fairy
7. Oral Composition
8. The Sentence
9. Picture Study - The Flower Girl
10. Composition
11. Use of the Dictionary
12. Correct Use of Words
13. Selection to Be Memorized - The Robin
14. Correct Use of Words
15. Conversation - Birds
16. Composition - Description of a Bird
17. Correct Use of Words
18. Selection for Study - The Red-Headed Woodpecker
19. An Imaginary Dialogue
20. Words of a Series
21. Paragraphs - An Indian Legend
22. Conversation - Indians
23. Composition - Indians
24. Titles and Abbreviations
25. Selection for Study - Helen Keller
26. Letter Writing - Helen Keller to O. W. Holmes
27. Letter Writing
28. Letter Writing
29. Addressing an Envelope
30. Selection to Be Memorized
31. Dictation - The Apple Tree
32. Conversation - Fruits
33. Description - A Fruit Store
34. Correct Use of Words
35. Selection for Study - The Barefoot Boy
36. Conversation - The Farmer
37. Possessive Form
38. Composition
39. Names
40. Selection for Study - Story of the Flax
41. Composition - Description
42. Composition - The Thirsty Crow
43. Composition - Dialogue
44. Conversation - The Cat Family
45. Composition - Description of an Animal
46. Dictation - Description of a Lion
47. Reproduction - A Fable
48. Composition
49. Reproduction - A Fable
50. Imaginative Letter
51. Summary
52. Dictation - Quotation Marks
53. Meaning of Words
54. Selection for Study - Don't Give Up
55. Contractions
56. Quotations
57. Dictation
58. Correct Use of Words
59. Description of a Game
60. Letter Writing
61. Picture Study - Gambols of Children
62. Correct Use of Words
63. The Comma in Address
64. Oral Composition - A Story
65. Selection for Study - The Village Blacksmith
66. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
67. Singular and Plural Forms
68. Selection for Study - The Wind and the Moon
69. Conversation - Clothing
70. Conversation - Cotton
71. Composition - Cotton
72. Letter Writing
73. Words that Rhyme
74. Writing Sentences
75. Written Conversation
76. Letter Writing
77. Possessive Form
78. Conversation - The Dog Family
79. Picture Study - The Wounded Companion
80. Composition - Story about Wool
81. Correct Use of Words
82. Composition - Frisk and the Mirror
83. Picture Study - Shepherd and Sheep
84. Correct Use of Words
85. Singular and Plural
86. Selection for Study - King Solomon and the Bees
87. Composition - A Story
88. Selection for Study - Daybreak
89. Dictation
90. Exclamations
91. An Autobiography
92. Composition - Story of a Meadowlark
93. Composition - Two Squirrels
94. Conversation - Gnawers or Rodents
95. Correct Use of Words
96. Conversation - Money
97. Composition - History of a Dime
98. Picture Study - Return of the Fishing Boats
99. Selection to Be Memorized - Sweet and Low
100. Summary
101.Selection for Study - The Story of a Seed
102. Dictation
103. Divided Quotations
104. Divided Quotations
105. Indirect Quotations
106. Composition - A Story
107. Conversation - The Body
108. Debate
109. Letter Writing - Review
110. Homonyms
111. Picture Study - Departure of the Pilgrims
112. Conversation - Foods
113. Composition - A Loaf of Bread
114. Selection for Study - Thanksgiving
115. Singular and Plural
116. Conversation - Cud Chewers
117. Picture Study - The Deer Family
118. Correct Use of Words
119. Selection for Study - The Windflower
120. Prose Study - A Plant
121. Conversation - Flowers
122. Composition - The Monarch Butterfly
123. Dictation
124. Selection for Study - October's Bright Blue Weather
125. Correct Use of Words
126. Picture Study - The Balloon
127. Composition
128. Conversation - Ships of the Air
129. Composition - A Trip in an Airship
130. Abbreviations
131. Reproduction - A Fable
132. Composition
133. Selection for Study - The Greek Myth - Echo
134. Explanatory Expressions
135. Selection to Be Memorized
136. Singular and Plural
137. Picture Study - A River Scene
138. Dictation
139. Selection for Study - The Song of the Brook
140. Composition - The Story a Drop of Water Told
141. Business Letters
142. Letter Writing
143. Autobiography of a Book
144. Correct Use of Words
145. A Diary
146. Longfellow's Diary
147. Selection for Study - The Cloud
148. Dictation - A Dry Season
149. Composition
150. Summary
151. Correct Use of Words
152. Picture Study - Two Mothers
153. Composition - An Important Event
154. Selection for Study - The Tree
155. Composition - Story of an Oak Desk
156. Composition - A Story
157. A Dialogue
158. Letter Writing
159. Formation of Sentences
160. Composition - A Story
161. Letter Writing
162. Picture Study - Summer Evening
163. Study of Words
164. Selection for Study - Woodsman, Spare that Tree
165. Composition - A Plea for Life
166. Review - Singular and Plural
167. Kinds of Sentences
168. Letter Writing
169. Selection for Study - Legend of the Arbutus
170. Conversation - The Post Office
171. Description - A Postage Stamp
172. Titles
173. Letter Writing
174. Selection to Be Memorized
175. Formation of Sentences
176. Picture Study - Return of the Mayflower
177. Letter Writing
178. Selection for Study - Old Ironsides
179. Study of Words
180. Description of an Old Mill
181. Composition - A Description
182. Description of a Person
183. Selection to Be Memorized
184. Correct Use of Words
185. Letter Writing
186. Composition - A Story
187. An Imaginary Diary
188. Picture Study - The Spinner
189. Selection for Study - The Heritage
190. Selection to Be Memorized
191. Composition
192. Quotations
193. Selection to Be Memorized - Today
194. Composition
195. Summary
196. Selection for Study - A Story about Washington
197. Subject and Predicate
198. Selection for Study
199. Review
200. Selection to Be Memorized
201. Letter Writing
202. Picture Study - The Gleaners
203. Compound Subject and Predicate
204. Selection for Study - July
205. Transposed Order
206. Conversation - The School
207. Debate
208. Selection for Study - The Invention of Printing
209. Composition
210. Dictation
211. Nouns
212. Selection for Study - The Music of Labor
213. Selection for Study - Michael Angelo
214. Pronouns
215. Composition - Description of a Place
216. Common and Proper Nouns
217. Selection for Study - "Down to Sleep"
218. Composition - A Lost Article
219. Possessives
220. Conversation - Coal
221. Composition
222. Conversation - Electricity
223. Picture Study and Letter - The First Railway Train
224. Conversation - Transportation
225. Debate
226. Dictation - Transportation
227. Conversation - Good Roads
228. Conversation - Railroads
229. Picture Study - The Breaking Wave
230. Advertisement and Answer
231. Writing Advertisements
232. Selection for Study - The Blue Jay
233. Conversation - Birds' Nests
234. Dictation - The Oriole's Nest
235. Biography of an Oriole
236. Selection for Study - Winter
237. Conversation
238. Dictation - The Bells
239. Composition
240. Choice of Adjectives
241. Selection for Study
242. Composition
243. Debate
244. Picture Study - The Horse Fair
245. Selection for Study - The Horse's Prayer
246. Composition
247. Adjectives and Nouns
248. Summary
249. Selection for Study - Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
250. Selection for Study
251. Verbs
252. Verbs
253. Letter Writing
254. Conversation
255. Selection for Study - The Burial of Sir John Moore
256. Correct Use of Words
257. Composition - A Description
258. Selection for Study - The Seasons
259. Review
260. Sentences Like Model
261. Quotations
262. Selection to Be Memorized - The Year's at the Spring
263. Adverbs
264. Adverbs
265. Adverbs
266. Composition
267. Selection for Study - A Biography
268. Telegrams
269. Prepositions
270. Composition - A Biography
271. Correct Use of Words
272. Selection for Study - The Coming of Spring
273. Selection for Study
274. Selection for Study - The Flag Goes By
275. Dictation
276. Conversation - The Soldier
277. Selection for Study - A Man without a Country
278. Conjunctions
279. Composition - The Flag
280. Conversation
281. Interjections
282. Selection for Study - Columbus
283. Picture Study - Columbus
284. Selection for Study
285. Words Derived from Proper Nouns
286. Invitations
287. Letter Writing
288. Selection for Study - May
289. Conversation
290. Quotations
291. Selection for Study - Daffodils
292. Selection for Study - Summer Rain
293. Description - Plan of a House
294. Selection to Be Memorized - Home, Sweet Home
295. Letter Writing
296. Conversation
297. Selection for Study - The Day is Done
298. Selection for Study
299. Suggestions for Descriptions
300. Selection for Study - Neighbor Mine
301. Summary INDEX

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