What does a Neuter Verb not express? 13 Does a Neuter Verb ever express an action?-Yes. What kind of action? 14 Does it express any thing else? 15 And so through the rest. In the phrase, "the hammer And so with the rest of the random. No. V. Words of Commanda. BY MONITOR. TEACHERS, GIVE OUT COPIES:-The teacher of each class receives copper-plate copies from the schoolmistress or head child, and places one before every child in his class. a Several of the words of command, described above, are now not in use; since many movements, which at first were made by the classes separately, at the command of their respective teachers, are at present made by the whole school at once, at the command of the monitor, or mistress. The principal words of command, not there described, or which are now executed differently, are as follow:TEACHERS, CEASE DICTATING.-This is to give each child time to finish his last word, or sentence, before the inspection. CLASSES, PREPARE FOR INSPECTION.-On hearing this command, the children place their pencils on the desks, and, if writing from TEACHERS, COLLECT COPIES:-Each teacher collects his copies, and returns them to the schoolmistress or head child. TEACHERS, BEGIN DICTATING:-The teachers of the classes which write from dictation take their seats, and begin dictating their lesson, spelling, or mis-spelt words. TEACHERS, INSPECT SLATES::-The teachers in order, begin◄ ning with the seventh class, direct their classes to shew slates; and each of them, assisted frequently by the schoolmistress and monitor, proceeds to inspect the slates belonging to his class. TEACHERS, LEAD OUT CLASSES:-The teachers conduct their classes out to lesson, in the manner hereafter described. copies, they place them on the right sides of their slates; and sit upright, with their hands off the desks, in readiness to execute the next command. CLASSES, SHEW SLATES.-On hearing the first word of this command, (CLASSES,) they lay hold of the sides of their slates, without raising them from the desks: on hearing the remaining words, (SHEW SLATES,) they quickly, but quietly, raise them on the desks, with the written sides inwards, or towards themselves; which has been found, on the whole, to be more convenient than the former method. TEACHERS, CHANGE COPIES.-Each teacher takes up the copy of his head child, and carries it to the lowest child; and, as he proceeds along the front of the desk, moves each of the remaining copies one place higher. Thus, the whole are in an instant changed, and without noise or confusion. TEACHERS, COLLECT PENCILS.-When this command is given, the children take their pencils in their right hands, and hold them upright on the tops of the desks, so that the teachers may conveniently collect them. The teachers, also, the instant the word is given, move rapidly off, from the upper end of their respective desks, and, having collected the pencils, deliver them to the monitor, or mistress.-The copies are likewise collected by the teachers, at the command of the monitor, or mistress, in the same regular manner. CLASSES, PREPARE FOR LESSON; or, OUT OF SCHOOL; or, CHURCH; or, CATECHISM.-On hearing this command, the children sit upright on the forms, with their hands off the desks, and prepared to execute the next. CLASSES, TO LESSON; or, OUT OF SCHOOL; or, TO CHURCH; or, TO CATECHISM.-OUT.-IN.-CLEAN SLATES.-All these commands are executed as above described; with the exception, that it is done by the whole school at once, instead of by single classes. GIVE OUT HATS.-When this command is given, the head child of each class steps out, and delivers hats, bonnets, &c., and, if going to church, prayer books and bibles, to such children as have them not within their reach. The signal for a child's wanting any thing is, extending his right arm on the desk. During the delivery of hats, &c., the teachers stand at the head of their respective classes, to see that good order is preserved. 3d edit. 1815. TEACHERS, LEAD IN CLASSES:-They conduct them back to their desks. TEACHERS, LEAD OUT OF SCHOOL; or, TO CHURCH; or, TO CATECHISM; or, TO CIPHERING:-The teachers use the same form nearly as in leading out to lesson. BY TEACHERS. PRINT I, H, T, (or whatever may be the letters) CAPITAL; or, a, b, c, &c. SMALL;-or, 1, 2, 3, &c.:-The children print the letters, or figures, in the sand; and, having finished, keep their right hands resting on the edge of the desk. NAME AND COUNT YOUR LETTERS, or, FIGURES:-Each child names and counts the letters, or figures, forwards and backwards, pointing to each with his forefinger b. CLASS, (third, fourth, &c. as it may happen to be,) SHEW SLATES:-The children of the class instantly raise their slates on the desk, with the written side outwards, and inclined a little to the end of the desk where the teacher gave the command. CLASS, CLEAN SLATES:-They rub out the inspected words with their spuuges. C CLASS, TO LESSON; or, OUT OF SCHOOL; or, To CHURCH; Or, TO CATECHISM; or, TO CIPHERING:-The children rise from their form, and, turning a little towards the end of the desk where their teacher stands, wait for the next command. OUT:-They step nimbly over the form, and stand steady behind it, keeping their eyes on their teacher. The boys place their hands behind them; the girls hold theirs before them. Go:-They walk away rapidly, but quietly, under the conduct of their teacher. CLASS, TO YOUR PLACES,-GO: They return in the same orderly manner to the space behind their form. IN:-They step over the form, and resume their seat. b The above commands are for the teacher of the first class. Precisely similar ones are employed by the teacher of the second class, except that in the first command the word, WRITE, is substituted for PRINT. If a ciphering class, it is addressed by the name of the rule in which it happens to be; as, Simple Division Class ;-Practice Class:-&c. ARITHMETIC. IN the Enmore school all the children, when of a proper age, are instructed in Arithmetic; which is taught in classes, each under the direction and tuition of its teacher. An arithmetic class consists of all such children as are in the same rule. When a class commences ciphering, or enters upon a new rule, a teacher is appointed from one of the superior classes: but the teacher frequently belongs to the class of which he has the care; and in that case has as little previous acquaintance with what he is to teach as the rest of the children composing it. To enable him to discharge the duties of his office, he is supplied, first, with a book containing not only the sums on which his class are to be employed, but also the full working of them, expressed either in words, or in some more compendious but equally intelligible way; and, secondly, where the rule which the class are studying admits of it, he is provided with a full and comprehensive table. It will readily be perceived by all who are acquainted with Mr. Lancaster's publications, that in two important points, viz. that of dividing the children into classes,—and that of qualifying uninstructed children to act as teachers of those classes, by supplying them with worked sums and tables, our method of teaching arithmetic is similar to that which is described in his Improvements in Education. With respect, however, to many of the practices there mentioned, I saw nothing to induce me to adopt them; particularly those which constitute the employment of his first class; and that of writing from dictation entire keys to sums, as noticed in his account of the succeeding class. In our school children begin to cipher at seven, and sometimes at six years of age: and no inconvenience whatever has hitherto been felt from the omission of the preparatory exercises mentioned in Mr. Lancaster's book, and practised in his schools. On the contrary, the progress made by our children in arith a Our arithmetic teachers are now always taken from a superior class, generally from the highest; and, in the same manner as our reading teachers, each of them has the permanent charge of a particular class. The children, who are thus employed as teachers, receive their own lessons in arithmetic at another time of the day. 3d edit, |