Vary the reading by having parts of lesson read as a concert exercise.
What effect has the repetition of the word _now_, in the second and
third lines?
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Language Lesson.--Let pupils write six sentences, each containing one
of the following words, used in such a manner as to show its proper
meaning: _right, write; reed, read; tied, tide_.
Let pupils make out an _analysis_ of the lesson, and use it in
giving the story in their own words.
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LESSON XLI.
veg e ta'tion, _every thing that grows out of the ground_.
meth'od, _way; manner_.
ta'per ing, _growing smaller toward the end_.
men'tioned, _spoken of_.
struct'ure, _arrangement of parts; a building of any kind_.
marsh'y, _wet_.
swamp, _low ground filled with water_.
sprung, _started; begun_.
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SOMETHING ABOUT PLANTS.
The name plant belongs in a general way to all vegetation, from the
tiniest spear of grass or creeping flower one sees on the rocks by the
brook-side, to the largest and tallest of forest trees.
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