Twenty Talks to Teachers
Chapter 7: Opening Exercise
by Thomas E. Sanders
A list and description of possible exercises that can be used to catch the attention of your students at the beginning of the school day.
A list and description of possible exercises that can be used to catch the attention of your students at the beginning of the school day.
The speaker questions the fleeting nature of life and beauty, but discovers there is more to consider.
The narrator goes to his Club and meets up with an old friend. Later, the narrator walks through the gardens and imprisons an elf and discovers it to be Bruno.
The three children ask Mother to show them another story. She shows them the Orioles as they return from the south in mid-May to build their nest.
ADIEU, New–England's smiling meads,
After telling Mistress Crow how much he admires her, Master Fox is able to trick her into dropping her meal. Master Fox snaps it up and eats it. Mistress Crow learns a hard lesson about insincere compliments.
"When the corn ’s all cut and the bright stalks shine"
How two traders get their plow and child back.
Anne is invited to tea by Mrs. Allan. Avonlea awaits the arrival of a new teacher.
A man dies and requests that the monks feed the birds every day at noontime.
Bruno and the narrator discuss the fairy king’s dinner party.
A rundown of the terms and sayings that are commonly used by the cadets at West Point.
A story about a blue jay named Jakie. This chapter focuses on the relationship between Jakie and the speaker.
Mr. Peck passes away.
MNEME begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine,
The weather once again changes for the better, quenching the thirst of the Mariner. The crew, although changed, continue to perform their assigned duties.
When Tommy Fox plays ill, a squirrel is fooled.
The various members of the St. Clare family are introduced to the reader.
Tommy Stubbins tells about his life in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh and his three friends, Joe, Matthew Mugg, and Luke.
Brownie asks Uncle Jerry Beaver about a sign. Jerry makes a mistake as to the meaning of the sign’s phrase. Tommy Fox sets him straight.
A witch plots against her stepdaughter.
The second spirit takes Ebenezor to the Cratchit home.
Mrs. Sowerby visits the garden. Everyone notices how much Colin looks like his mother. Mary and Colin embrace Mrs. Sowerby and wish that she were their mothers.
A part of a collection of short stories about three children in the revolutionary times. In this story Marmaduke and his friends travel to China through the hole they dug.
"I ‘ve journeyed ‘roun’ consid’able, a–seein’ men an’ things,"