This section is from the book "Lessons In English", by Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer. Also available from Amazon: Lessons in English.
Select one of the following subjects to write about. Before you begin to write, make an outline showing what each paragraph is to be about.
1. How to have a good football team.
2. Our garden exhibit.
3. An ideal picnic.
4. Our field day exercises.
5. How to play basket-ball or some, other game.
A sixth grade boy wrote on the first topic, and these were the first heads of his outline.
1. The kind of men to select.
2. How to try the players out for the different positions.
 
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