1. Read this extract line by line, and interpret its meaning. Then read the whole of it aloud as Portia spoke it.
The following list of book titles suggests some good library browsing for you. Try reading one good book a week outside of school hours. Aside from the immediate pleasure and knowledge derived, you will thus establish an invaluable habit and set up for yourself standards of literary judgment.
| Alcott's Eight Cousins |
| Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy |
| Baldwin's Discovery of the Old Northwest |
| Baldwin's Fifty Famous Rides and Riders |
| Baldwin's Old Greek Stories |
| Brown's Rab and his Friends |
| Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress |
| Burnett's Secret Garden |
| Burroughs's Bird Stories |
| Burroughs's Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers |
| Clemens's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Clemens's Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Clemens's Prince and the Pauper |
| Clemens's Roughing It |
| Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion |
| Cooper's Deerslayer |
| Cooper's Pathfinder |
| Cooper's Spy |
| Dana's Two Years before the Mast |
| Dickens's Child's History of England |
| Dickens's Christmas Carol |
| Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth |
| Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby |
| Dickens's Pickwick Papers |
| Garland's Boy Life on the Prairie |
| Guerber's Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages |
| Hill's On the Trail of Washington |
| Holland's Historic Boyhoods |
| Holland's Historic Girlhoods |
| Howells's Stories of Ohio |
| Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby |
| Irving's Sketch Book |
| Kipling's Captains Courageous |
| Kipling's Jungle Books |
| Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare |
| London's Call of the Wild |
| Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish |
| Lucas's Slowcoach |
| Mabie's Book of Christmas |
| Mabie's Book of Old English Ballads |
| Mabie's Famous Stories Every Child should Know |
| Marden's Stories from Life |
| Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle |
| Pyle's Men of Iron |
| Roosevelt's Stories of the Great West |
| Scott's Ivanhoe |
| Scott's Quentin Durward |
| Seton's Trail of the Sandhill Stag |
| Stevenson's Kidnapped |
| Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae |
| Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey |
| Stockton's Stories of New Jersey |
| Swift's Gulliver's Travels |
| Tarkington's Penrod |
| Thompson's Stories of Indiana |
| Warner's Being a Boy |
| Whitehead's Standard Bearer |
| Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| Yonge's Book of Golden Deeds |
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