Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO BOSTON ATLANTA
Copyright, 1921, by AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY All rights reserved W. P. II MADE IN U. S. A.
This reader undertakes to provide desirable material for work in silent reading without losing sight of the other elements essential in a good reader for pupils in the seventh grade or in the first year of the junior high school.
One task before the teacher of Reading in this year is to foster, by stimulating material, a taste for good reading which it is to be hoped has at least been partially formed in the preceding grades. The selections in this volume are made with the purpose of giving the seventh-grade pupils such virile and enjoyable literature as will make them desire more of the same kind. The character and fitness of the material, not the date of its production, have governed the choice of the editor.
Arrangement by Groups. There is an obvious advantage in grouping kindred reading materials in sections under such captions as Adventure, From Great Books, Our Country, etc. Besides affording some elements of continuity, the plan offers opportunity for comparison and contrast of the treatment of similar themes. It also insures a massing of the effect of the idea for which the section stands. Secondarily, the section divisions break up the solid text, and because of this the pupils feel at frequent intervals that they have completed something definite.
The groupings make no pretense to being mutually exclusive. On occasion a selection may well be transferred to another section. For example, the Washington and Lincoln stories should be used in the proper season in the Our Country section although it is obvious that they belong in Special Days. Teachers should have no hesitation in breaking across from one section to another when the occasion or the children's interest seems to warrant.
Mechanical Features. Editor and publisher have spared no pains or expense to make this book attractive to children. The volume is not cumbersome or unwieldy in size. The length of line is that of the normal book with which they regularly will come into contact. The type is clean-cut and legible. Finally, enough white space has been left in the pages to give the book an open, attractive appearance. No single item has so much to do with children's future attitude toward books as the appearance of their school Readers.
E. C. Hartwell
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STORY HOUR READINGS
SEVENTH YEAR
E. C. HARTWELL, M.A., M.Pd.
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
ALI HAFED'S QUEST
HOW KILHUGH RODE TO ARTHUR'S HALL
THE GIFT OF THE WHITE BEAR
THE STORY OF IRON
THE WONDERFUL ARTISAN
CHARLEMAGNE AND ROLAND
KEEPING THE BRIDGE
THE STORY OF MOLLY PITCHER
KING PHILIP TO THE WHITE SETTLERS
PIONEER LIFE IN OHIO
WITCHCRAFT
TEA PARTIES IN OLD NEW YORK
A SCHOOL OF LONG AGO
FRENCH LIFE IN THE NORTHWEST
A BEAR STORY
A PATRIOT OF GEORGIA
SONG OF THE PIONEERS
COLUMBUS AND THE ECLIPSE
FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION
THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION, 1905
HARVEST SONG
THE CRATCHITS' CHRISTMAS
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
CHRISTMAS IN THE PINES
THE NEW YEAR'S DINNER PARTY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
(Written for Jesse W. Fell, December 20, 1859)
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN
WASHINGTON'S GREATEST BATTLE
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
MEMORIAL DAY, 1917
A GRANDSTAND SEAT IN THE SKY
PRAYER FOR THE PILOT
A BATTLE WITH A WHALE
THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS
HOW BUCK WON THE BET
THE WALRUS HUNT
THE RESCUE
DESCENDING THE GRAND CAÑON
NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUTH SEAS
A BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST
A NIGHT AMONG THE PINES
AUTUMN ON THE FARM
GOLDENROD
THE PALISADES
ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
TO A WATERFOWL
A NIGHT IN THE TROPICS
A WINTER RIDE
THE SNOWSTORM
SNOW-BOUND
TOM PINCH'S RIDE
ODE TO A BUTTERFLY
IN THE DESERT
MAY IS BUILDING HER HOUSE
THE DAFFODILS
THE FALLS OF LODORE
AN ADVENTURE IN BROTHERHOOD
THE PRAYER PERFECT
GET OUT OR GET IN LINE
JOHN MARSHALL OF VIRGINIA
OPPORTUNITY
BOY WANTED
JOHN LITTLEJOHN
THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM
TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION
IF I WERE A BOY
THE LESSON OF THE WATER MILL
A MOTTO OF OXFORD
SAILING AND FAILING
USE AND ABUSE OF TIME
HIDDEN TREASURE
THE SOLITARY REAPER
THE STAGECOACH
THE CHAMELEON
THE PICKWICK CLUB ON ICE
DARIUS GREEN AND HIS FLYING MACHINE
AUNT DOLEFUL'S VISIT
GRADGRIND'S IDEA OF EDUCATION
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S RIDE
SIGNING PETITIONS
GREAT LITTLE RIVERS
THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
HERVÉ RIEL
THE SONG OF THE CAMP
CABIN BOY AND ADMIRAL
LITTLE GIFFEN
MARCO BOZZARIS
SAN JUAN HILL
BURIAL OF A SOLDIER IN FRANCE
AMERICA FOR ME
WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?
THE RISING OF '76
OUR OWN COUNTRY
PATRICK HENRY'S SPEECH
ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO MRS. BIXBY
THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY
TRUE PATRIOTISM
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
O BEAUTIFUL! MY COUNTRY!
THE PROBLEMS OF THE REPUBLIC
THE MEANING OF AMERICANISM
WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?
A PATRIOTIC CREED
THE LISTS AT ASHBY
THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM
DOUBTING CASTLE
CHRISTMAS EVE AT FEZZIWIG'S
JEAN VALJEAN MEETS THE BISHOP
A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT
POLONIUS'S ADVICE TO HIS SON
MERCY
GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW
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