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Intermediate Language Lessons

by Emma Serl Author

(From Amazon): The 301 lessons on Emma Serl's Intermediate Language Lessons remain classics today, largely due to their ability to teach the intricacies of the English language (and, along the way, the basic moral habits of a good member of the community) by appealing to the imagination of the young student.---------Sample Lesson: The Stone in the RoadThere 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 near by, 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. “Some one 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 some one who is unselfish enough to think of the comfort of others.”Tell the story, from the following outline:The king.The people.The stone in the road.The people who passed.The miller’s boy.The bag of gold.Read, in the last part of the story, what the king said.With what kind of letter is the word I always written?Make a rule for this use of the capital letter.

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Resource Type: eBooks
ISBN: B00IA65HPO
Print Status: In Print
Lessons: 301
Pages: 340
Suggested Grades: 3rd - 6th
Copyright: 2014
Written: 1913

Lessons

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- Alice Cary
5 Composition- A Fairy 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 Helen Keller
26 Letter Writing
27 Letter Writing
28 Letter Writing
29 Addressing an Envelope
30 Selection to Be Memorized- William Cullen Bryant
31 Dictation
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 King Solomon and the Bees
87 Composition- A Story
88 Selection for Study- Daybreak
89 Dictation
90 Exclamations
91 An Autobiography
92 An Original Fairy Story
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- Continued from Lesson 51
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 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 Reproductions- A Fable
132 Composition
133 Selection for Study- Echo
134 Explanatory Expressions
135 Selection to Be Memorized
136 Singluar 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- Continued from Lesson 100
151 Correct Use of Words
152 Picture Study- Two Mothers
153 Composition- An Important Event
154 Selection for Study- The Tree
155 Composition
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- Woodman, 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- William Shakespeare
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- Francis Bourdillon
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- Charles Kingsley
191 Composition
192 Quotations
193 Selection to Be Memorized- To-Day
194 Composition
195 Summary- Continued from Lesson 150
196 A Chinese Folk Story
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 Talk about the following:
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 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 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- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- Continued from Lesson 195
249 Selection for Study- Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
250 Selection for Study- Louisa M. Alcott
251 Verbs
252 Verbs- Continued
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-Continued
265 Adverbs- Continued
266 Composition
267 Selection for Study- A Biography: Samuel Morse
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- Our Birds and Their Nestlings
274 Selection to Be Memorized- 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- William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Selections for Study
299 Suggestions for Descriptions
300 Selection for Study- From Town and City
301 Summary- Continued from Lesson 248

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