Daniel Webster, Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Whittier, Garrison, Whitney, Morse, Peter Cooper. REGULAR READING LESSONS AND AMERICAN LITERA TURE Masterpieces of American Literature (Scudder); Nature Pictures by American Poets; Speech on Washington (Webster); Washington's Farewell Address; Tales of a Wayside Inn (Longfellow); Poems of American Patriotism; Hymns and Patriotic Songs; Fortune of the Republic and American Scholar (Emerson); Schurz's Abraham Lincoln and other selected pieces; Lincoln's Inaugurals, and other speeches. My Hunt after the Captain (Holmes); Biglow Papers-selections (Lowell); Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe); Speech in Reply to Hayne, or, The Great Debate (Webster); Burke on Conciliation with the American Colonies; Oregon Trail (Parkman) — pictures of western life; Source Book of American History (Hart)- latter part; The House of Seven Gables (Hawthorne); Story of the Great Republic (Guerber) — latter part; American Writers of To-day (Vedder); The Pilot (Cooper); Twelve Naval Captains (Sewell). Great Words of Great Americans. READINGS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE Masterpieces of English Literature: Roger de Coverley (Addison) — English pictures; Lady of the Lake and Marmion (Scott); The Deserted Village and Traveller (Goldsmith); Ivanhoe, The Abbot, and Rob Roy (Scott); Essay on Samuel Johnson (Macaulay); Source Book of English History (Kendall); Tale of Two Cities (Dickens). Seven British Classics. OTHER EUROPEAN LITERATURE Julius Cæsar (Shakespeare) - closely related to the history; Peasant and Prince (Martineau); The Judgment of Socrates (Plato); Story of the Romans (Guerber) latter parts; The Boy's Browning — "Pied Piper" and other poems; Plutarch's Lives historical biographies; Don Quixote (Cervantes); Two Great Retreats retreat of Napoleon from Moscow; The Talisman and Quentin Durward (Scott); Jean Valjean; Motley's Peter the Great and The Siege of Leyden. CHAPTER IX LIST OF BOOKS OUT of the great number of books on American and European history, it is needful that a careful selection be made of a few most suitable for use in the grades. In pursuance of the plan and course of study laid out in the preceding chapters, a few select books have been chosen for each grade. In each grade three groups of books are given. I. Those books which may serve as a text-book basis for more careful study. In fourth and fifth grades the first list contains the stories to be treated orally by the teacher. 2. A list of supplementary reading and source material, biography and story, which children may be encouraged to use at school and home. This will open up the library to children, and teach them how to make use of books, sources, etc. 3. A list of a few important books for teachers, including some of the secondary histories, the stronger biographies and fuller source materials, doc uments, etc. Such a book as Channing and Hart's Guide to the Study of American History is of great value to teachers in directing their reading and study. Several books of this character, with good, brief bibliographies, and a few books on the pedagogics of history are included. The large, complete histories, such as Schouler's McMaster's, Bancroft's, and others, are named at the end of the list. The entire list of books is designed to be definite for each grade, and to strike the middle line between too much and too little. LIST OF BOOKS FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES 1. Books of American pioneer stories and a few European stories which furnish material suitable for oral treatment by the teacher. A few books of select poems and sources will also be of service to teachers. Pioneers on Land and Sea. (McMurry.) The Macmillan Co. This contains the stories of Hudson, Champlain, John Smith, Raleigh, early life of Washington, Columbus, Magellan, Cortés, and early New England. Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley. (McMurry.) The Macmillan Co. This has the stories of La Salle, Joliet and Marquette, Hennepin, Boone, Robertson, Sevier, George Rogers Clark, Lincoln, and De Soto. Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West. (McMurry.) The Macmillan Co. The stories of Lewis and Clark, Frémont's two expeditions, Parkman among the Indians, the Sioux massacre, the trip to California in '49, and Powell's descent of the Colorado. The three books above named contain stories for use in both fourth and fifth grades. The order in which they are used depends upon the location of the home, in the East or West. It is recommended that the ocean pioneers, Columbus, Magellan, etc., be taken in the latter part of the fifth grade. Pilgrims and Puritans. (Moore.) Ginn & Co. The best account for our purpose of the early settlement of Plymouth and Boston. This reaches also into colonial history. |