Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 82 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
65. Composition: describing a plant
Goal: Your child writes a description of a plant following a plan.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 82 gives a plan for a composition on the peach-tree and a general plan for describing other plants, with a list of plants.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask your child to fix "the two last pages."
The plan
The book says:
Write a composition on the Peach-tree, taking the following plan.
It begins:
Size, as compared with the apple-tree.
Form, division of branches.
Color of leaves in spring and fall.
It goes on to appearance in bloom, whether it grows wild, what part of the fruit is eaten, and kinds of peaches.
Look at a real plant
If possible, look at a tree or plant outside, or at a picture. Note size, shape, leaves and flowers.
Write
Write a paragraph for each point. If peach-trees aren't familiar, use the general plan with a plant from the book's list (the pine, the violet, the maple, the daisy, the tomato-plant and others).
Read and check
Your child reads it aloud. Ask which adjectives made the description clearest.
Use it today
Name three plants you pass today and one thing about each.
Answers to the book's problems
Compositions will vary.
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