How to Teach Reading in the Public Schools

by S. H. Clark

The atmosphere of the first four lines is that of joy, and it is hardly possible to keep back the tears as we utter the last four.

---

In the final selection we shall call attention to all the interpretative difficulties which the teacher is likely to meet with in the class-room. There is no reason why such a piece of literature as this cannot be used to advantage even in the public school, provided we take the time for careful analysis.

JULIUS CAESAR.—Shakespeare

Act IV., Scene 3

Brutus’s Tent

Enter Brutus and Cassius

Cas. That you have wrong’d me doth appear in this:

You have condemn’d and noted Lucius Pella

For taking bribes here of the Sardians;