Robinson Crusoe.Sinbad the Sailor.Toomai of the Elephants.—Kipling.Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.—Kipling.Reynard the Fox.(Selected stories.)"Uncle Remus." (Selected stories.)"The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England," Mrs. Hemans."Columbus," Joaquin Miller.The Twenty-third Psalm. Authorized Version."The Idle Shepherd Boys," Wordsworth."Spinning Song," Wordsworth."The Village Blacksmith," Longfellow."Tubal Cain," Mackay."The Wreck of the Hesperus," Longfellow."The Discoverer of the North Cape," Longfellow."The Spider and the Fly," Mary Howitt."The Palm Tree," Whittier."Hiawatha Builds His Canoe," Longfellow.Dramatization of a story of some voyager or pioneer.
Robinson Crusoe.Sinbad the Sailor.Toomai of the Elephants.—Kipling.Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.—Kipling.Reynard the Fox.(Selected stories.)"Uncle Remus." (Selected stories.)"The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England," Mrs. Hemans."Columbus," Joaquin Miller.The Twenty-third Psalm. Authorized Version."The Idle Shepherd Boys," Wordsworth."Spinning Song," Wordsworth."The Village Blacksmith," Longfellow."Tubal Cain," Mackay."The Wreck of the Hesperus," Longfellow."The Discoverer of the North Cape," Longfellow."The Spider and the Fly," Mary Howitt."The Palm Tree," Whittier."Hiawatha Builds His Canoe," Longfellow.Dramatization of a story of some voyager or pioneer.
Fourth Year
Robin Hood(given partly from Howard Pyle'sRobin Hood, partly from the Ballads)."Under the Greenwood Tree," Shakespeare."Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," Shakespeare."Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay," Scott."Meg Merriles," Keats."The Chough and the Crow," Baillie."Song of Marion's Men," Bryant."My Captain," Whitman."Lochinvar," Scott."The Shepherd of King Admetus," Lowell."Abou Ben Ahdem," Hunt."Yussouf," Lowell."Sherwood," Alfred Noyes."March," Wordsworth."When Icicles Hang by the Wall," Shakespeare."The Jabberwocky,"Alice in Wonderland.
Robin Hood(given partly from Howard Pyle'sRobin Hood, partly from the Ballads)."Under the Greenwood Tree," Shakespeare."Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," Shakespeare."Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay," Scott."Meg Merriles," Keats."The Chough and the Crow," Baillie."Song of Marion's Men," Bryant."My Captain," Whitman."Lochinvar," Scott."The Shepherd of King Admetus," Lowell."Abou Ben Ahdem," Hunt."Yussouf," Lowell."Sherwood," Alfred Noyes."March," Wordsworth."When Icicles Hang by the Wall," Shakespeare."The Jabberwocky,"Alice in Wonderland.
Fifth Year
The Odyssey.—George Herbert Palmer. (Translation.)Gulliver's Travels: "The Voyage to Lilliput.""The White Seal," Kipling."The Coast-wise Lights," Kipling."The Sea," Barry Cornwall."Sir Patrick Spens," Folk Ballad."The Inchcape Rock," Southey."To a Waterfowl," Bryant."Lead, Kindly Light," Newman."The Chambered Nautilus," Holmes."The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats."Breathes There a Man," Scott."Uphill," Christina Rossetti."The Long White Seam," Jean Ingelow."The Exile of Erin," Campbell.
The Odyssey.—George Herbert Palmer. (Translation.)Gulliver's Travels: "The Voyage to Lilliput.""The White Seal," Kipling."The Coast-wise Lights," Kipling."The Sea," Barry Cornwall."Sir Patrick Spens," Folk Ballad."The Inchcape Rock," Southey."To a Waterfowl," Bryant."Lead, Kindly Light," Newman."The Chambered Nautilus," Holmes."The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats."Breathes There a Man," Scott."Uphill," Christina Rossetti."The Long White Seam," Jean Ingelow."The Exile of Erin," Campbell.
Sixth Year
Heroic adventures from the chivalric cycles of King Arthur, of Siegfried, of Roland, and The Cid, and selected episodes fromDon Quixote.orThe Drums of the Fore and Aft.—Kipling;Rip Van Winkle.—Irving;The Bee-Man of Orn.—Stockton;Old Pipes and the Dryad.—Stockton;The Man Born to Be King.—Morris."The Lady of Shalott," Tennyson."Hack and Hew," Bliss Carman."The Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier."The Cloud," Shelly."The Walrus and the Carpenter," fromAlice in Wonderland.
Heroic adventures from the chivalric cycles of King Arthur, of Siegfried, of Roland, and The Cid, and selected episodes fromDon Quixote.
or
The Drums of the Fore and Aft.—Kipling;Rip Van Winkle.—Irving;The Bee-Man of Orn.—Stockton;Old Pipes and the Dryad.—Stockton;The Man Born to Be King.—Morris.
"The Lady of Shalott," Tennyson."Hack and Hew," Bliss Carman."The Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier."The Cloud," Shelly."The Walrus and the Carpenter," fromAlice in Wonderland.
Seventh Year
The Great Stone Face.—Hawthorne.The Snow Image.—Hawthorne.The Gold Bug.—Poe.The Pot of Broth.—Yeats.The Hour-Glass.—Yeats."A Dissertation on Roast Pig," Lamb."The Vision of Mirza," Addison."King Robert of Sicily," Longfellow."Horatius at the Bridge," Macaulay."The Ballad of East and West," Kipling."Heroes," Edna Dean Proctor."The Yarn of the Nancy Bell," Gilbert."The Wolf and the Mastiff," Fontaine.
The Great Stone Face.—Hawthorne.The Snow Image.—Hawthorne.The Gold Bug.—Poe.The Pot of Broth.—Yeats.The Hour-Glass.—Yeats."A Dissertation on Roast Pig," Lamb."The Vision of Mirza," Addison."King Robert of Sicily," Longfellow."Horatius at the Bridge," Macaulay."The Ballad of East and West," Kipling."Heroes," Edna Dean Proctor."The Yarn of the Nancy Bell," Gilbert."The Wolf and the Mastiff," Fontaine.
Eighth Year
Julius Caesar.—Shakespeare.The Tempest.—Shakespeare.Sohrab and Rustum.—Arnold.Treasure Island.—Stevenson."Old China," Charles Lamb.Wake Robin(selections).—John Burroughs."My Garden Acquaintance," Warner."The Goblin Market," Christina Rossetti."Each and All," Emerson."Hart-leap Well," Wordsworth."I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Wordsworth."The Splendor Falls," Tennyson."The Revenge," Tennyson."Etin the Forester," Folk Ballad."Thomas Rymer," Folk Ballad.
Julius Caesar.—Shakespeare.The Tempest.—Shakespeare.Sohrab and Rustum.—Arnold.Treasure Island.—Stevenson."Old China," Charles Lamb.Wake Robin(selections).—John Burroughs."My Garden Acquaintance," Warner."The Goblin Market," Christina Rossetti."Each and All," Emerson."Hart-leap Well," Wordsworth."I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Wordsworth."The Splendor Falls," Tennyson."The Revenge," Tennyson."Etin the Forester," Folk Ballad."Thomas Rymer," Folk Ballad.
Anyone who has read these eighteen chapters should find himself provided with a set of maxims and injunctions among which will be the following:
1. Choose the literature for the children under the guidance of those principles by which you test any literature.
2. Remember that literature is art; it mustbe taught as art, and the result should be an artistic one.
3. Never teach a thing you do not love and admire. But learn to suspect that when you do not love it the fault is in you, and is curable.
4. According to the best light you have, choose those things that are fitted for the children—corresponding to their experience, or awakening in them experiences you would like them to have.
5. Teach your chosen bit of literature according to its nature and genius. Study it so sympathetically that you can follow its hints, and make its emphases. Teach each piece for its characteristic effect, and do not try to teach everything in any one piece.
6. Be contented to read with the children a limited number of things. You cannot read every delightful and helpful thing. You can only introduce them to literature and teach them to love it.
7. When you have led your class, or half your class, into a vital and personal love of literature and set their feet on the long path of the reader's joy, you have done them the best service you can perform as a teacher of literature.
FINIS