Fourth Year
A. READING (four-fifths).
Study of typical examples of the novel, the drama, the lyric, and the essay.
B. COMPOSITION (one-fifth).
I. Narration, Description, and Exposition.
II. Argumentation.
Methods.
III. Words, figures of speech, sentences, paragraphs, and whole composition.
IV. Verse writing.
V. Theme writing.
One short theme not exceeding 500 words, every week; and one long theme of from 800–1200 words every eight weeks; to be carefully corrected by teacher and revised or rewritten by pupil.
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LIST OF READINGS FOR FOUR YEARS
The following list contains the college entrance requirements in English for the years 1906 to 1911, and other selections adapted for reading and study in high school English classes. The Roman numerals following the titles indicate the year or years of the course herein outlined, in which the books may most profitably be read:
Addison’s De Coverley Papers. II, III.
Addison and Steele’s Spectator. II, III.
Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum. II.
Bacon’s Essays. III.
Blackmore’s Lorna Doone. IV.
Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part One. I, III.
Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon, and Mazeppa. III.
Browning’s Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Evelyn Hope, Home Thoughts From Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, The Boy and the Angel, One Word More, Hervé Riel, Pheidippides. III.
Bryant’s Translation of the Iliad and Odyssey (selections). I, II.
Burrough’s Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, A Bunch of Herbs, etc. I, II.
Burke’s Conciliation With America. IV.
Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. III, IV.
Carlyle’s Heroes and Hero Worship. III, IV.
Chaucer’s Prologue. III.
Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner. II, III.
Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans. II, III.
De Quincey’s Joan of Arc, and The English Mail Coach. III, IV.
Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. II, IV.
Dickens’ Christmas Carol. I.
Emerson’s Essays (selected). III, IV.
Franklin’s Autobiography. I, II, III.
Mrs. Gaskell’s Cranford. III, IV.
George Eliot’s Silas Marner. IV.
Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village. II, III.
Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield. II, III.
Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables. II, III.
Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales. I.
Irving’s Life of Goldsmith. II, III.
Irving’s Tales of a Traveler. I, II.
Irving’s Alhambra. II.
Irving’s Sketch Book. I, II.
Lamb’s Essays of Elia. II, III.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech, etc. II, IV.
Longfellow’s The Courtship of Miles Standish. I, II.
Lowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal. II.
Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome. II.
Macaulay’s Essay on Addison. III, IV.
Macaulay’s Lord Clive. II, IV.
Macaulay’s Life of Johnson. II, IV.
Milton’s Lycidas, Comus, L’Allegro, and II Penseroso. III, IV.
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (First Series) Books II and III with special attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper, and Burns. III, IV.
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (First Series) Book IV with special attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley. III, IV.
Poe’s Poems. III, IV.
Poe’s Short Stories. II, III.
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. III.
Pope’s Essay on Man and Essay on Criticism. III.
Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies. II, III.
Scott’s Ivanhoe, Lady of the Lake, and Quentin Durward. II, III.
Shakespere’s Julius Caesar. II, III.
Shakespere’s Macbeth. IV.
Shakespere’s As You Like It, Henry V., Twelfth Night, and Midsummer Night’s Dream. III.
Shakespere’s Merchant of Venice. II, III.
Spenser’s Faerie Queene (selections). III.
Stevenson’s Treasure Island. I, II.
Thoreau’s Succession of Forest Trees. I, II.
Tennyson’s Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur. II, III.
Thackeray’s Henry Esmond. IV.
Warner’s A-Hunting of the Deer. I.
Washington’s Farewell Address. II, IV.
Webster’s First Bunker Hill Oration. II, IV.
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OUTLINE FOR THE STUDY OF COMPOSITION AND STYLE
The following is a fairly complete outline of the essential elements of rhetorical theory as applied in composition work and in a study of structure and style. As such, it is designed primarily for the teacher who desires to review any part of the subject in preparation for teaching composition. Many portions may be used in the class room in a simplified form, to supplement or summarize parts of the text-books in rhetoric and composition. The books to which references are given are in general the most convenient and comprehensive manuals for the particular parts of the subject with which each deals.
The references as abbreviated in the outline are as follows:
(P), Pearson, Principles of Composition. Heath, Boston ($.50).
(W), Barrett Wendell, English Composition. Scribner, New York. ($1.50).
(M), Minto, Manual of English Prose Literature. Ginn, New York. ($1.50).
(C), Cairns, Forms of Discourse. Ginn, New York. ($1.15).
(BI, BII), Bain, English Composition and Rhetoric, 2 Vols. American Book Co., New York. ($1.20 a vol.).