I. News Section

1. General news.

2. Political news.

3. Foreign news.

II. Sporting Section

1. News.

2. Comments.

III. Amusement Section

1. Daily story.

2. Anecdotes.

3. Jokes.

IV. Editorial Section

1. Choice of subjects.

2. Treatment of subjects.

52. Be prepared to give your talk.

53. Write the substance of your talk. Bring to the classroom the first copy of your work, even if it is full of revisions. After you have given your talk, read from your notes the opening and closing sentences in order that the class may test the unity of your composition.

Bring to class the rewritten copy of your theme.1

54. Write the story of your life. This will introduce you to your English teacher, and is not to be read by your classmates. It should open in an attractive way, and should give a straightforward account of what you like to do both in school and outside.

55. Bring to class (1) a composition you have written in connection with some study other than English; (2) a plan of the composition; (3) a criticism of the composition under the eight headings given in Exercise 30.

56. Examine the following plan, which hundreds of pupils have found helpful in writing reports of experiments in science. How many paragraphs does it call for?

An Experiment

I. The purpose of the experiment.

II. The equipment (apparatus and materials used).

III. The method.

IV. The results. V. The inference.

1 See footnote on page 24.