“One girl is reading ’The Promised Concrete example Land,’ by Mary Antin,” Miss Meyers has “human interest,” tells you, “and thinks it is a wonderful as related in book.  She was so much interested in the teacher’s own it that I asked her to tell the others words about it.  Although a little shy at first, she soon forgot herself in her eagerness to relate Miss Antin’s experiences.  She told the story with such dramatic effect that she quite carried away her classmates.  If we had done no more than to teach this girl to read a book that meant so much to her, I believe our school would have justified its existence.”

Mary Antin herself accepted the Is this paragraph girls’ invitation to attend the graduation out of logical order? exercises, and made a short address.

The pupils’ written work was exhibited V. RESULTS SHOWN BY on the walls of the room on the occasion PUPILS’ WORK of the exercises, and showed conclusively the proficiency that they have attained.

The greatest progress made by any 1.  Italian’s theme and of the pupils was probably that of an progress Italian girl.  Before coming to this country, she had attended school and Example of greatest besides this she had been teaching her progress is put father at night whatever she had first learned during the day.  Her short essay on her adopted country read: 

This country is the United States Note use of narrow of America.  It is the land of freedom measure without and liberty, because the people quotation marks for govern themselves.  All citizens love examples quoted their country, because they know that this freedom was earned by men who gave their lives for it.  The United States is in North America.  North America is one of the greatest divisions of the earth.  North America was discovered on October 12, 1492, by Christopher Columbus.

The fact that Columbus, one of her Is this comment by countrymen, had discovered the country the writer effective? in which she and her father had found a new life, doubtless appealed to her keen imagination.

That a Russian girl appreciated the 2.  Russian’s essay on lessons she had received in the value of saving opening a dime-savings account, is indicated by this composition: 

I must save money out of my earnings to put in the bank.  I know that money is safe in the bank.

To deposit means to put money in
the bank.

Cashing a cheque means changing
a cheque for money.

How practical lessons in personal hygiene 3.  Polish girl’s essay may be emphasized in connection with the teaching of composition was illustrated in an essay of a Polish girl written under a picture of a woman combing her hair: