1. The Fable, which is here illustrated, is a simple story told to point a moral or to make clear a complicated situation. Æsop and George Ade are perhaps the most interesting authors of fables--at least to twentieth-century Americans. An entertaining program may be arranged by assigning each member of the class a fable of one of these writers for oral reporting. The model illustrates well the value of the fable form in newspaper exposition. 2. Note the paragraph structure: (1) Introduction; (2) "Four W's," or Situation 1; (3) Climax, or Situation 2; (4) Dénouement, Result, or Situation 3; (5) Moral, or Point. 3. Define and discuss the etymology of "antiquity," "apologue," "apology," "edition," "fable," "impostor," "accomplice," "confederate," "knave," "ghee," "caution," "puffers." 4. What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables? Does he here use more or fewer big words in proportion than in Paragraphs 1 and 5? What is the effect on his style? 5. What proportion of his sentences are simple? Compound? Complex? 6. Topics for reports or speeches: Mr. Robert Montgomery; Pilpay; The Brahmins; Æsop; Sanscrit. 7. Explain the allusion in the phrase, "the Sanscrit Æsop." 8. Explain some episode in American history by means of a fable. 9. Write an editorial on some question of local and current interest, using the fable method to illustrate the situation. IV. Model II