. Teacher's manual for freehand drawing in intermediate schools. The drawing of these geometric forms is sufficientfor one lesson. Talk to the pupils, and tell themthat the next lesson, which will be given on suchand such a day, will be to make a design from the. 178 TEACHERS MANUAL. maple-leaf to fill the geometric shapes ; and eveiychild who can find maple-leaves is to bring as manyas he or she ma} wish to put in the shape who cannot do so will have to use the con-ventional leaf directh from the cop} already drawn. As this is the first design to be entered in thebook, it would be


. Teacher's manual for freehand drawing in intermediate schools. The drawing of these geometric forms is sufficientfor one lesson. Talk to the pupils, and tell themthat the next lesson, which will be given on suchand such a day, will be to make a design from the. 178 TEACHERS MANUAL. maple-leaf to fill the geometric shapes ; and eveiychild who can find maple-leaves is to bring as manyas he or she ma} wish to put in the shape who cannot do so will have to use the con-ventional leaf directh from the cop} already drawn. As this is the first design to be entered in thebook, it would be advisable to let the pupils try iton their slates first, and when they see what size theleaf must be, to fill the space nicely, then let themput it into one division of the geometric form,which they have previously made. The precedingpage gives four treatments of this exercise, to sug-gest to the teacher how it may be treated in thefour forms recommended. Others will occur to bothteacher and scholars ; and those who have the inven-tive faculty will be more pleased to design theirown patterns than to borrow them. In every class,however, there will be a number of children whocannot, or who believe they cannot (which for prac-tical purposes is the same thin


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