- Autobiography and Lay Sermons. Huxley, or
- Warren Hastings. Macaulay.
Collateral Reading.
- The Idylls of the King (Enid, Elaine, and Guinievere).
- The Princess. Tennyson.
- The Lady of Shalott. Tennyson.
- Sir Galahad. Tennyson.
- Merlin and the Gleam. Tennyson.
- The Light of Asia. Edwin Arnold.
- Balder Dead. Matthew Arnold.
- Lord Clive. Macaulay.
- Life of Johnson. Macaulay.
- The Americanism of Washington. Van Dyke.
- Latter Day Saints and Sinners. Ross.
- The Life of Lincoln. Schurz.
- Fisherman’s Luck. Van Dyke.
- Adventures in Friendship. Grayson.
- Adventures in Contentment. Grayson.
- Out of the East. Lafcadio Hearn.
- My Summer in a Garden. Warner.
- Reveries of a Bachelor. Mitchell.
- Dream Children. Mitchell.
Method.
1. Idylls of the King. Study for (1) nobility of thought and ideals of life; (2) beauty of pictures; (3) imagery and word usage; (4) blank verse and noticeable sound effects. Make special effort as in the first half of the tenth year, to develop the imagination and an appreciation of the gain from beautiful expression.
2. The novel. (1) Train in open-eyed reading; the story and the characters should be known thoroughly. (2) Aim to enlarge the experience by acquaintance with new motives and actions. (3) Seek for the underlying ideas in the story and for the working out of great laws. (4) Study of structure as in the drama.
3. The Essay. Continue paragraph work of the tenth year, second half, with new emphasis on kinds of paragraph development. Distinguish between narrative, descriptive, and expository paragraphs, and the methods of development in each. Begin the study of prose style; i.e., rhetorical sentences and their value: studiously long and short sentences, periodic sentences, antithesis and climax; also study vocabulary, especially, in Macaulay, the use of concrete terms and their value. Select striking paragraphs for close work on style, and study to discover method.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
Second Term.
Literature Studied.