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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/sawpub/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114How to teach composition in an interesting, motivating, and effective way can look like an overwhelming task. For some strange reason, students can be remarkably unenthusiastic about writing assignments. Even those who like English sometimes show a surprising distaste for composition assignments.<\/p>\n
I can still remember a lengthy\u2014and not overly-successful\u2014attempt to convince my elementary-school teacher that I couldn\u2019t<\/em> write on any of the topics on her composition list. Not even the theme \u201cMy Favourite Book\u201d succeeded in striking a chord. I didn\u2019t have a favourite book, as I tried to explain. I was an insatiable bookworm, but I didn\u2019t have a favourite book. I had a favourite series, but not a favourite book.<\/p>\n Looking back, this experience was probably not any more pleasant to my teacher than it was to me. But what elementary English student thinks about the teacher, in the face of a grim and unyielding composition assignment?<\/p>\n Today\u2019s Timeless Tip from Educators of the Past comes to us from 19th<\/sup> century writer and teacher Edwin A. Abbott. Himself an experienced educator, holding the position of Head Master of the City of London School, Abbott nonetheless believed that home education was destined to be the way of the future\u2014pointing to growing resources for women\u2019s education as a proof that \u201cin the next generation mothers will take a large part in the teaching and training of the young.\u201d<\/p>\nComposition Assignments from Days Gone By<\/strong><\/h5>\n