PART IV.

COURSE OF STUDY IN ENGLISH.

a. Composition-Oral and Written.

(1) Paragraph Themes: (One a week.) (a) Narration; (b) Description; (c) Exposition; (d) Argumentation.

(2) Long Composition, or theme. (One a month.) (3) Letter-writing: (a) Social letters; (b) Business letters.

(4) Verse-writing.

(5) Book Reports. Book Reviews.

(6) Development of Topic Sentences.

(7) Old-time Tales, Oral reproduction: (Select one.) (a) Longfellow: Bell of Atri; (b) Arnold: Death of Balder.

(8) Historical Tales, Oral reproduction: (Select one.) (a) Famous Tales from Other Lands; (b) Stories of Our Country.

(9) Stories and story-telling, Oral reproduction: (Select one.) (a) Grandmother and Grandfather Stories. (b) Fireside Stories Retold.

(10) Biographical Sketches.

(11) Practical use of books and libraries.
(a) The book, its parts, its care.

II. Literature.

(2) Paragraph Structure.

b. Parts of Speech Vitalized.

C.

(1) Teach the: Noun as the type combining element. Adjective as the type modifying element. Verb as the type asserting element.

(2) Train the child to: Keep his pronouns clear and choose right forms. Keep clear his correlatives. Use carefully the subordinate conjunctions.

Correction of errors in speech.

d. Detailed study of the noun.

e. Parsing, analysis, diagram.

A. GENERAL LITERATURE.

1. Study Material. (Select one from each group.)

a. Poetry.

(1) Hemans: Landing of the Pilgrims.
(2) Bryant: The Forest Hymn.

(3) Whittier: New Year.

b. Fiction.

(1) Mark Twain: The Pony Rider.

(2) Stevenson: Treasure Island.

(3) Irving: Rip Van Winkle.

c. Plays.

(1) King Robert of Sicily.

d. Dramatization.

(1) Dickens: Christmas Carols.

(2) Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish.

e. Classic, Northern and Medieval Myths as: (Select as needed.)

(1) Baldwin: Hero Tales Told in School; The

Golden Fleece; Story of Siegfried; Stories of
Roland; Stories of the King.

(2) Barker: Stories of Old Greece and Rome.

(3) Gayley: Classical Myths.

(Selected.)

(4) Hutchinson: Golden Porch. (Selected.)
(5) Mabie: Norse Stories.

2. Memorizing.

a. Prose. (Select one from each group.)

(1) Dickens: Selections from Pickwick Papers.
(2) Lincoln: Gettysburg Address.

b. Poetry.

(1) Bryant: Death of the Flowers.

(2) Lowell: Youssouf.

(3) Van Dyke: Ruby Crowned Kinglet.

3. Quotations.

a. Prose. (Selected.)

b. Poetry. (Selected.)

4. Required Reading.

a. Dickens: Christmas Carol.

b. Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish.
Whittier: Snow Bound.

C.

5. Suggested list for telling or reading by teacher. Antin: The Promised Land.

Fox: Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.

Edgar: Stories from Morris.

Hugo: Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

Mitchell: The death of Major Andre from "Hugh
Wynne".

Martineau: Peasant and Prince.

Washington: Up from Slavery.

6. Supplementary Reading-Home Reading. (Each pupil make an oral report on any one book from outline prepared by teacher.)

a. Prose.

Alcott: Little Women; Little Men.

Aldrich: Story of a Bad Boy.

Anonymous: Arabian Nights.

Baldwin: Story of Siegfried.

Beale: Stories from the Old Testament.

Brooks: Boy Emigrants.

Brown: Rab and His Friends.

Barrie: Peter and Wendy.

Dickens: Old Curiosity Shop or Cricket on the Hearth.

Dodge: Hans Brinker.

Duncan: Story of Sonny Sahib.

Finch: Nathan Hale.

Field: Christmas Tree and Christmas Verse.

Eggleston: Hoosier Schoolmaster.

Grimm: Fairy Tales.

Hawthorne: Tanglewood Tales.

Jewett: Betty Leicester.

Kingsley: Heroes.

Kipling: Just So Stories.

Lamb: Adventures of Ulysses.

La Ramee: Dog of Flanders.

Liljencrantz: Thrall of Lief the Lucky.
Macleod: Book of King Arthur.

Page: Two Little Confederates.

Pyle: Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Roberts: Red Fox.

Spyri: Heidi.