To break up the continuity of the text by thrusting unrelated composition
work between lessons closely related and mutually dependent is exceedingly
unwise.

The Composition Exercises suggested in this revision of "Graded Lessons"
are designed to review the regular Lessons and to prepare in a broad,
informal way for text work that follows. But since these Exercises go much
farther, and teach the pupil how to construct paragraphs and how to observe
and imitate what is good in different authors, they are placed in a
supplement, and not between consecutive Lessons of the text.

To let such general composition work take the place of the regular grammar
lesson, say once a week, will be profitable. We suggest that the sentence
work on the selections in the Supplement be made to follow Lessons 30, 40,
50, 60, 70, 77; but each teacher must determine for himself when these and
the other outlined lessons can best be used. We advise that other
selections from literature be made and these exercises continued with the
treatment of the parts of speech.

For composition work to precede Lesson 30 we suggest that the teacher break
up a short story of one or two paragraphs into simple sentences, making
some of these transposed, some interrogative, and some exclamatory. The
pupils may be required to copy these, to underline the subject and the
predicate, and to tell, in answer to suggestive questions, what some of the
other words and groups of words do (the questions on the selections in the
Supplement may aid the teacher). The pupils may then write out the story in
full form. To vary the exercise, the teacher might read the story and let
the pupils write out the short sentences.