Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 342 pages of information about Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools.

Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 342 pages of information about Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools.

     18.  Sylvia asks her younger brother to go on an errand for her;
     he does not wish to go; the conversation becomes spirited.

     19.  Grandmother entertains another old lady at afternoon tea.

     20.  A working man is accused of stealing a dollar bill from the
     cook in the house where he is temporarily employed.

     21.  Mary Sturgis talks with her mother about going away to
     college.

     22.  A young man talks with his sister about woman’s suffrage;
     they become somewhat excited.

     23.  A middle-aged couple talk about adopting a child.

     24.  There is a strike at the mills; some of the employees
     discuss it; the employers discuss it among themselves.

     25.  An aunt in the city has written asking Louise to visit her;
     Louise talks with several members of her family about going.

     26.  Two boys talk about the ways in which they earn money, and
     what they do with it.

     27.  Albert Gleason has had a run-away; his neighbors talk about
     it.

     28.  Two brothers quarrel over a horse.

     29.  Ruth’s new dress does not satisfy her.

     30.  The storekeeper discusses neighborhood news with some of
     his customers.

     31.  Will has had a present of a five-dollar gold-piece; his
     sisters tell him what he ought to do with it; his ideas on the
     subject are not the same as theirs.

     32.  An old house, in which a well-to-do family have lived for
     many years, is to be torn down; a group of neighbors talk about
     the house and the family.

     33.  A young man talks with a business man about a position.

     34.  Harold buys a canoe; he converses with the boy who sells it
     to him, and also with some of the members of his own family.

     35.  Two old men talk about the pranks they played when they
     were boys.

     36.  Several young men talk about a recent baseball game.

     37.  Several young men talk about a coming League game.

     38.  Breakfast is late.

     39.  A mysterious stranger has appeared in the village; a group
     of people talk about him.

     40.  Herbert Elliott takes out his father’s automobile without
     permission, and damages it seriously; he tries to explain.

     41.  Jerome Connor has just “made” the high school football
     team.

     42.  Two boys plan a camping trip.

     43.  Several boys are camping, and one of the number does not
     seem willing to do his share of the work.

     44.  Several young people consider what they are going to do
     when they have finished school.

     45.  Two women talk about the spring fashions.

II.  Choose some familiar fairy-tale or well known children’s story, and put it into the form of a little play for children.  Find a story that is rather short, and that has a good deal of dialogue in it.  In writing the play, try to make the conversation simple and lively.

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