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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 5

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ASSIGNMENT 8.. STANDARD I. Read the story of "Willie Waggle." Then answer the questions on page 38. 1. Who was Willie Waggle? 2. What was his home called? 3. Write down the kind of food Willie Waggle eats;

4. How does, the worm hear? 5. Write the sentence which' tells how Willie moves about. | 6. Make up a sentence about the blackbird and Willie. SPELLING: can't, could, coming, cough, don't. STANDARD 2. SPELLING: often, once, piece, ready, raise. READING: Read "Willy Waggle" to top of page 39. 1. When dees the worm go in search of food? : 2. What kind of weather does it like best? 3. Name some things that the worm ate.1 . .'•■■" 4. What was the worm's: worst enemy? 5. How did he tell when the enemy was coming? Find words in the story that.mean these: — •..",. 6. The way a worm moves. 7. The worm's hole in the- ground. 8. Going slowly over the garden. 9. Putting his head out quickly. 10. The noise the. bird's beak "made.; STANDARD 3. Read again the last story in the April School Journal. Then answer these questions. ' ' 1. Lampon was a .... and also a .... Find the right words for the gaps from the story. . , 2. At what age did boys begin school in Athens? At what age <lo they usually begin in New Zealand? 3. How is your school-room different from the one Theras was int? 4. Join together without using "and". or. "but" or "so." (a) Then Pheidon took Theras's hand. . He. was taking the boy to school himself this day. (b) The'disc was a round, bronze plate. Each, boy .threw, it in. turn. STANDARD 4. : Read again the last story in. the April School Journal. Then answer these questions:— 1. What were the duties? of a pedagogue? : ■ 2. What ages were the boys who had the services of a pedagogue? 3. How did the class-woEk and schoolroom of a Greek pupil ■' differ from yours? 4. What did the boys wear to school? . \ ' ' 5: He came suddenly!. Suddenly tells HOW he came, and} is called an adverb because it is usually with a verb. Adverbs telling "tyow"—adverbs of manner—end in ly. ,'Find the adverbs of manner on page 48. Write down the adverb and the word to which it is joined; then-underline the adverb. ' ' ' , ,