1. Preparation For Class Conversation

Answer as many of these questions as you can. Make inquiries to find out the things you do not know.

What people do you know about who help in taking care of the mail?

Who employs the people who are in the postal service? By whom are they paid?

What work is done in your post-office?

Learn as much as you can about handling mail on the trains.

Over what route does your mail carrier travel? How does he go? How long does it take him? What different things does he do?

What things about a mail carrier's work are pleasant? What things are hard?

How many classes of mail are there? What things belong in each class?

Why is it a good thing to have our mail delivered at our doors?

2. Study Of Words

These words are used in conversation about the mails: post-office postal cards mail carrier rural free delivery post-office order postal clerk postman mail car.

postmaster postage stamps route.

parcel post special delivery postmark mail bag mail box.

Learn to spell the words and be able to tell what any one means.

3. Composition

Oral. Be prepared to talk five minutes in class upon one of these subjects:

A day with a mail carrier in the city. A day with a mail carrier in the country.

Written. Describe the journey of a letter. Before you write think of these points:

1. The start.

2. What happened on the journey.

3. The message.

4. The arrival.

Read your compositions in class. After they are corrected copy them in your notebooks.