Divisions.
1. Literature studied in class.
2. Collateral reading done in connection with the literature studied and under the general direction of the teacher.
3. Reading selected at will from a general list, composed not necessarily of masterpieces, but of wholesome books interesting to young people, the purpose being to encourage reading and to furnish suggestions as to what is worth while.
NINTH YEAR.
First Term.
Literature Studied.
- The Iliad, Books 1, 6, 22 and 24. Bryant’s Translation.
- The Odyssey. Complete. Palmer’s Translation.
- Antigone.
Collateral Reading. Selections from the following:
- The Iliad (At least four more books.) Homer.
- Wonder Book. Hawthorne.
- Tanglewood Tales. Hawthorne.
- Greek Heroes. Kingsley.
- Earthly Paradise. Morris.
- The Æneid. Virgil.
- Masque of Pandora. Longfellow.
- Iphigenia in Aulis. Euripides.
- Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides.
- Alcestis. Euripides.
- Ulysses. Stephen Phillips.
- Balaustion’s Adventure. Browning.
- Pheidippides. Browning.
- Rhoecus. Lowell.
- Out of the Northland. Child.
- Old Testament Stories.
- The Song of Roland.
- The Niebelungenlied.
- Beowulf. Child.