The Speyer School Curriculum (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... English The aim of the reading work of this year is to give the children a love for and an appreciation of some of the great English poets and of our own American poetry, the emphasis being placed on the latter. Some of the minor American poets are read because they are writing now. The teacher often reads to the children. Good portraits of the writers read are placed in the class room, and children become familiar with them. All of the selections listed here are read in class. Some others are also read in connection with the study of the particular authors. An attempt is made to familiarize the children somewhat with the characteristics of each author studied, largely through typically selected productions. A more extended study of each author's writings rather than an intensive study of a few selections is believed to be better for children of this age. Outside library and periodical reading is encouraged. Prose: A Drop of Water on Its Travels--Buckley. The Uses of Mountains--Ruskin. The Fall of the Leaf--Mitford. About the Stars--Flammarion. Story of a Stone--Jordan A Tale of Two Cities--Dickens. The Great Stone Face--Hawthorne. The Other Wise Man, and The First Christmas--Van Dyke. Gettysburg Address--Lincoln. Ramona--Jackson. Red Rock--Page. Cudjo's Cave--Trowbridge. For the Freedom of the Sea--Brady. The Luck of Roaring Camp--Harte. Poetry: Bryant--Autumn Woods; To a Waterfowl; To the Fringed Gentian. Burns--The Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Wee Mousie; To a Mountain Daisy. Emerson--The Snowstorm; Concord Hymn. Holmes--Spring Has Come; Old Ironsides; The Chambered Nautilus. Keats--Ode to a Grecian Urn; Ode to the Nightingale; To Autumn. Lanier--Selections from The Marshes of Glynn; A Ballad of the Trees; The Master. Longfellow--Sunrise on the Hills; The Ar...