EASTERN CONTINENT. WESTERN CONTINENT. 14. LARGEST ISLANDS. 1. Australia. 2. Papua. 3. Borneo. | 1. Greenland. 2. Newfoundland. 4. Madagascar. 5. Sumatra. 3. Cuba. 4. Hayti. 15. MOST IMPORTANT ISLAND GROUPS. 1. The British Isles. 2. The Japan Isles. 3. The East Indies. 1. The West Indies. 2. The Sandwich. 3. Aleutian. SECTION XI. -GENERAL REVIEW QUESTIONS. Note. For high-grade classes. Dictate one set of five questions at the beginning of the week. Let the pupils hunt up the answers from their text-books, and take a written examination at the end of the week, or make the recitation an oral one. SET I. 1. How is it supposed that the earth assumed the shape of an oblate spheroid? 2. Why are the tropics and the polar circles 234° from the equator and the poles? 3. What circles on the globe would not exist if the earth's axis were perpendicular to the plane of its orbit? 4. If the rotation of the earth were to cease, what change would be made in the distribution of the water on the surface of the globe? What would be the effect on ocean currents. 5. What three motions has the earth? SET II. 1. What are the two main causes of a difference in climate? 2. What are the causes of the unequal length of day and night? 3. How is the change of seasons caused? 4. What is the length of the longest day where you live? At the Arctic Circle? At the equator? At the north pole? 5. At what places on the earth is the sun ever vertical at noonday? SET III. 1. How are trade-winds caused? 2. State the two chief causes of ocean currents. 3. Why is the climate of the western coast of North America 5. Cause of the excellent fishing-grounds at the Grand Banks and SET IV. 1. Name the five chief ocean currents. 2. Describe the Gulf Stream and the Japan Current. 3. What winds chiefly supply rain in the north temperate zone? 4. Why is the greatest rainfall in the tropics? 5. Where are glaciers found, and how are they produced? SET V. 1. Name the two chief mountain ranges in each of the five grand divisions. 2. Name the highest mountain peak in each of the grand divisions. 3. Name five noted volcanoes. 4. Name the chief river of each of the grand divisions. 5. Name four great rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean; four into the Atlantic; four into the Pacific; four into the Indian. SET VI. 1. Name the four chief bays or gulfs in the Eastern hemisphere; four in the Western. 2. Name the four chief island groups in each hemisphere. 3. Name five noted capes in the track of commercial routes in the Old World. 4. Name five noted capes in the New World. 5. Name five rivers noted for great internal trade. SET VII. 1. Name the five chief cities of the Old World; of the New. 2. Name four large cities in the Southern hemisphere. 3. Name the five chief seaports of the world. 4. Name the five great powers of Europe, and the three chief cities of each. SET VIII. 1. Area and population, in round numbers, of France, Germany, and Austria. 2. Area and population of China, British India, Russia. 3. Population of each of the grand divisions. 4. Population of the world. 5. Population of the five great commercial cities of the globe. SET IX. 1. By what three commercial routes can you travel round the world from London ? 2. How can a grain-ship sail from Chicago to Liverpool? 3. How could you travel by water from Odessa to St. Petersburg? 4. What five cities would you pass on a steamboat trip from New Orleans to Pittsburgh? 5. How could you go from New York to Melbourne ? SET X. Geography of our own country. 1. Area, population, and five chief cities. 2. Four physical divisions. 3. Five leading exports. 4. Five leading imports. 5. The five countries with which our commercial relations are most important. CHAPTER IV. LANGUAGE-LESSONS AND COMPOSITION FOR BEGINNERS. Note for Teachers. - Notwithstanding the extent to which modern elementary text-books on language-lessons have been introduced, there are still many schools where there is nothing in the hands of pupils except the oldstyle text-book on grammar. The following models and exercises are intended mainly for teachers who have to prepare their own work from lack of a book in the hands of pupils. SECTION I.-EXERCISES FOR BEGINNERS. Direction.-Write a lesson on the blackboard, and let your scholars copy it on their slates or on paper. Then let them exchange, compare with the blackboard, and correct. 1. The Golden Egg. There was once a poor man who had a goose that laid a golden egg every day. This man was getting rich very fast, but he wanted to become rich still faster. So he killed his goose, expecting to find in her a whole nestful of golden eggs. He was rightly punished by finding none at all. 2. Story of Grip. Grip was a good dog that went round the streets of a great city with a poor old blind man. Grip led his master by a string. He would hold the old man's hat in his mouth, and look wistfully at people as if he wanted to say, "Please give my poor old master a little money." When Grip was always true to his master. He often wanted to play with other dogs, but he never once, in all his life, ran away. the old man could no longer go out of his room, Grip used to take his master's hat in his mouth and go out on the streets to beg for money, which he would joyfully carry to the helpless old blind man. 3. How to Write Names. Rule I.-The particular name given to one person, place, or thing must begin with a capital letter. Bunker Hill Monument. In a similar manner write your own name; the name of your father and your mother, and the names of five of your schoolmates. In a similar manner write 1. The name of the place in which you live. 2. The name of your county and State. 3. The name of any State near yours. 4. The name of any river you know of. 5. The names of three men and three women that you know. 4. Names of Persons. Rule II.-When only the initial letter of a given name is written, put a period after each initial. When a person has two given names, it is customary to write only the initial of the second or middle name. Charles Henry Brown=Charles H. Brown. |