1. Oral Composition

Be ready to tell a short and interesting incident to your class.

If there is one main point, let it come at the end as a surprise. In the first part of the story, lead up to the main point, but do not give it away. Tell only those things that one must know in order to understand the story.

These subjects may suggest an incident:

1. Something that happened on circus day.

2. A story of some pet animal or a child.

3. How I had my own way and the result.

4. A quarrel between some birds.

5. How some one kept a secret.

6. Something I saw on a street corner.

7. A child's first ride on a street car.

8. A garden-making experience.

9. A story to illustrate some well-known proverb.

Decide in class who has the most interesting story and who has told his story most skilfully.

Suggest to each other ways in which the stories might be improved. Correct each other's errors in language also.

2. Written Composition

Write your story. Put the parts into separate paragraphs. Remember what you have learned about margins, capital letters, quotation marks, and other marks of punctuation. Be sure of your spelling. Make the story so interesting and have the form so good that you would not be ashamed to see it in print just as you wrote it.