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Very good condition green cloth boards with black front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preface and Sequence Guide to Drill Exercises. Illustrated with color plates by Norman Rockwell, Waltz, Verneer, and Koch, plus black-and-white drawings. "November 1923" is listed on the copyright page. General scattered board edgewear. All pages are in fine condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). From the Preface: "The Junior English Book advances no new theory of instruction. The purpose of such a manual, it is assumed, must be to aid the teacher in his efforts to encourage the formation of habits of correct, clear, truthful expression. It is also assumed that training of two kinds is necessary: 1) practice in simple composition, oral and written; 2) word and sentence drill. Part I presents ten separate Courses, each containing a group of related tasks in composition, graded as to difficulty, followed by smaller groups of drill exercises in which attention is paid to such matters as pronunciation, spelling, punctuation, and sentence revision. Part II presents a simple treatment of grammar, with more than half of the exercises aimed directly at common errors. The tasks in composition number about 150, more than can be used in two years. In selecting material for these tasks care has been taken to provide training of immediate value. This is illustrated in the Courses entitled Letters and Business English, where the treatment, though practical, is designedly elementary. It has been definitely recognized, moreover, that the young do best when they are interested. Not only are the subjects for compositions taken from the world as it is known to boys and girls, but ingenuity has been taken in presenting matter in such form as may appeal to the spirit of youth - imaginative, nature-loving, fun-loving, ambitious, fond of measuring strength in competition, quickly responsive to praise, sensitive to rebuke, keen in detecting insincerity. The drill exercises also number about 150. They correspond in some measure to the grinding but necessary drill a soldier undergoes in training camp. Yet through novelty and through the introduction when possible of an element of competition, the tedium is somewhat relieved. No exercise has been introduced merely to provide activity; each serves a practical purpose. The value of any manual of composition depends only in part on the measure of success with which the capacity, needs, and interests of the pupils have been gauged. The manual fails if it throws upon the teacher too heavy a burden. It fails, also, if instead of aiding the teacher it curbs him, forcing him to follow a hard and fast sequence. Attention is therefore directed to the following characteristics of the Junior English Book. 1. _ The burden of reading and correcting, necessarily heavy under any effective plan, has been reduced to a minimum and carefully distributed.2. Every effort has been made to lighten the burden of correction through anticipating errors that are likely to occur. The tasks in composition are very definitely stated. Such cautions and hints as are legitimate are given in abundance.3. Although the sequence of work had been determined by what has been found best in classroom experience, and may therefore be safely followed, it permits of rearrangement, for there is little of interlocking. The drill exercises in Part I - in spelling, punctuation, etc. - follow, as they should, a progressive sequence; but the related groups of composition tasks are independent units. They may be shifted. For example, there is no reason why, if it is desired, Business English should not be taken immediately after Letters. Moreover, within each group, since the tasks are arranged in the order of their difficulty, there is opportunity for the teacher to adapt the work to the maturity of his pupils by omitting what seems too simple or too difficult.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001988
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