Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-01-28
POINTS THAT MAY HELP YOU
PREPARE YOUR LESSONS

/. Explain to yourself the meaning of
every sentence and paragraph you read
2. Summarize each paragraph or each
lesson. Be sure that your summary
contains the vital points of the lesson
or paragraph.
g. Make an outline that covers the
entire lesson selecting for this purpose
the main though of each paragraph
4. Study in competition with others
In a contest for highest honors both
contestants are winners of they have
done their best.
5. Study in competition with others.
This is a good method of stimulatin
concentration. With your open watch
ASSIGN SO many minutes to a given
page or paragraph. During this time
keep your attention absorbed in this
task. Let nothing interrupt. When
the time is up close the book and see
how much you can remember in the
same number of minutes that you used
in studying.
s. Overnight memorizing. .--Just be-
fore going to bed read verse or para
graph once very slowly, with intense
attention. AS soon as you wake next
morning, make a persistent long-con-
tinued effort to recall every word A
few minutes so spent every day, stead
lily lengthening your selections. will
soon double the accuracy and reten-
tveness of your memory and make all
reading studies easy
Shut eve method Nearly all
young students use their eyes a great
deal and their minds very little. Study
paraS graph or chapter intensely a GER
tain number of minutes; then spend
exactly the same number of minutes
with your eys shut recalling. reviewing
and repeating it. AS a mind exercise
the second period is far moro valuable
than the first
To master a distasteful study by
sheer will power is the most valuable
exercise i'm your whole school course. d
Learn to concentrate upon your
work. DO not allow anything to inter
rupt the course of your work Do not
hold your book in your lap and call it
studying
8. Make questions that YOU could
ask another student in class.
NEW BASKET BALL TEAM ORGAN.
IZED
The girls of the Seventh grade who
are too young to play in regular team.
have organized a team of their own
under the supervision of Miss Keller.
days while the seventh grade bows
who are organized under Mr.. Gibson
practice on other nights. They intend
to have a very good team and hone
they may have some games with
neighboring towns
America For Me
(3y Van Dyke)
'Tis fine to see the Old World and
fro -aI or,I
Among the famous palaces and cities
of renown.
To admire the crumblv places and the
2 statues of the Kings
But now 7 think I've had enough Of
antiquated things.
Chorus:
SO it's home again, and home again
America for mel
Ny heart is turning home again. and /.
there long to be-
In the land of youth and freedom be-
yond the ocean bars.
Where the air is full of sunlight and
the flag is full of stars
know that Europe's wonderful, vet
something seems to lack:
The past is too much with her, and the
people looking back,
But the glory of the Present is to
make the Future frea-
We love our land for what she is and '
what she is to be.
Chorus:
Oh its home again. and home again, |
America for me!
want ship that's westward bound
to plow the rolling sea- a
70 the blessed Land of Room Enough
beyond the ocean bars.
l.
the flag is full OF stars
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