Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature

Ontario. Ministry Of Education

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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Author: Ontario Ministry of Education Release Date: April 2, 2008 [EBook #24974] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONTARIO TEACHERS MAN.: LITERATURE *** Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) ONTARIO TEACHERS' MANUALS [i] LITERATURE Emblem AUTHORIZED BY THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION TORONTO THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED COPYRIGHT , CANADA, 1916, THE MINISTER OF BY [ii] E DUCATION FOR ONTARIO REPRINTED , 1916, 1917. CONTENTS PAGE [iii] C OURSE OF STUDY—D ETAILS C HAPTER I Introduction What is Literature? The Qualities that Appeal to Children at Different Ages In Junior Forms In Senior Forms (Books III and IV) Complete Wholes versus Extracts Correlation of Literature with Nature Study, Geography, History, and Art Aims in Teaching Literature General Principles Applicable in the Teaching of Literature C HAPTER II Methods In Junior Forms Memorization In Senior Forms Teacher's Preparation Preparation of Pupils Presentation Value of Oral Reading in the Interpretation and Appreciation of Literature Development of the Main Thought Minute Analysis Allusions Imagery Literature of Noble Thought Recapitulation 1 5 7 7 10 11 12 14 16 19 20 22 22 23 26 27 29 31 32 33 35 36 Mistakes in Teaching Literature Extensive Reading C HAPTER III Illustrative Lessons Pantomime Little Miss Muffet Dramatization Little Boy Blue The Story of Henny Penny Wishes Indian Lullaby C HAPTER IV. FORM I: SENIOR Illustrative Lessons The Wind and the Leaves Piping Down the Valleys Wild The Baby Swallow The Brook C HAPTER V. FORM II Illustrative Lessons My Shadow One, Two, Three Dandelions The Blind Men and the Elephant The Lord is my Shepherd C HAPTER VI. FORM III Illustrative Lessons Hide and Seek An Apple Orchard in the Spring Little Daffydowndilly Moonlight Sonata Lead, Kindly Light Lead, Kindly Light C HAPTER VII. FORM IV Illustrative Lessons Judah's Supplication to Joseph Mercy Morning on the Lièvre Dickens in the Camp Dost Thou Look Back on What Hath Been Waterloo Three Scenes in the Tyrol C HAPTER VIII Supplementary Reading South-West Wind, Esq. A Christmas Carol 37 39 42 43 44 46 47 [iv] 50 52 54 56 59 62 64 67 71 74 76 78 83 87 89 93 98 101 105 112 117 122 131 135 The Lady of the Lake C HAPTER IX Selections for Memorization 139 145 [1] LITERATURE PUBLIC AND SEPARATE SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY DETAILS FORM I A. SELECTIONS FROM THE ONTARIO R EADERS B. SUPPLEMENTARY R EADING AND MEMORIZATION : Selection may be made from the following: I. To be Read to Pupils: 1. N URSERY R HYMES : Sing a Song of Sixpence; I Saw a Ship a-Sailing; Who Killed Cock Robin; Simple Simon; Mary's Lamb, etc. Consult Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading; Riverside Literature Series, No. 59, 15 cents. 2. FAIRY STORIES : Briar Rose, Snow-white and Rose-red—Grimm; The Ugly Duckling—Andersen; Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood —Perrault; Beauty and the Beast—Madame de Villeneuve; The Wonderful Lamp—Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Consult Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know , by H. W. Mabie. Grosset & Dunlap, 50c. 3. FOLK STORIES : Whittington and His Cat; The Three Bears. 4. FABLES: Selections from Æsop and La Fontaine. Consult Fables and Folk Stories , by Scudder, Parts I and II; Riverside Literature Series, Nos. 47, 48, 15 cents each. II. To be Read by Pupils: Fables and Folk Stories—Scudder; A Child's Garden of Verses (First Part) —Stevenson; Readers of a similar grade. III. To be Memorized by Pupils: [2] 1. MEMORY GEMS : Specimens of these may be found in the Public School Manuals on Primary Reading and Literature. 2. FROM THE R EADERS: Morning Hymn; Evening Prayer; The Swing; What I Should Do; Alice. FORM II A. SELECTIONS FROM SECOND R EADER B. SUPPLEMENTARY R EADING AND MEMORIZATION : Selection may be made from the following: I. To be Read to Pupils: 1. N ARRATIVE POEMS: John Gilpin—Cowper; Lucy Gray—Wordsworth; Wreck of the Hesperus—Longfellow; Pied Piper of Hamelin—Browning; May Queen—Tennyson; etc. Consult The Children's Garland, Patmore. The Macmillan Co., 35 cents. 2. N ATURE STORIES: Wild Animals I Have Known, Lives of the Hunted —Thompson-Seton; The Watchers of the Trails—Roberts. 3. FAIRY STORIES : Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know—H. W. Mabie. 4. OTHER STORIES: Selections from the Wonder Book—Hawthorne; Jungle Book—Kipling; Gulliver's Travels—Swift; Alice in Wonderland —Carroll; Robinson Crusoe—Defoe; The Hall of Heroes—Royal Treasury of Story and Song, Part III, Nelson & Sons. II. To be Read by Pupils: A Child's Garden of Verses—Stevenson; The Seven Little Sisters—Jane Andrews; Fifty Famous Stories Retold—Baldwin. III. To be memorized by Pupils: (A minimum of six lines a week) FROM THE R EADER: A Wake-up Song; Love; The Land of Nod; One, Two, Three; March; Abide with Me; The New Moon; The Song for Little May; The Lord is my Shepherd; Lullaby—Tennyson; Indian Summer; proverbs, maxims, and short extracts found at the bottom of the page in the Readers. [3] FORM III A. SELECTIONS FROM THIRD R EADER B. SUPPLEMENTARY R EADING AND MEMORIZATION : Selection may be made from the following: The King of the Golden River—Ruskin; Tanglewood Tales—Hawthorne; The Heroes—Kingsley; Adventures of Ulysses—Lamb; Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers—Burroughs; Ten Little Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago till Now—Jane Andrews; Hiawatha —Longfellow; Rip Van Winkle—Irving; Water Babies—Kingsley. To be Memorized by Pupils: (A minimum of ten lines a week) FROM THE R EADER: To-day—Carlyle; The Quest—Bumstead; Hearts of Oak—Garrick; A Farewell—Kingsley; An Apple Orchard in the Spring—Martin; The Charge of the Light Brigade—Tennyson; Lead, Kindly Light —Newman; The Bugle Song—Tennyson; Crossing the Bar —Tennyson; The Fighting Téméraire—Newbolt; Afterglow—Wilfred Campbell; proverbs, maxims, and short extracts. [4] FORM IV A. SELECTIONS FROM FOURTH R EADER B. SUPPLEMENTARY R EADING AND MEMORIZATION : Selections may be made from the list prepared annually by the Department of Education. LITERATURE [5] CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It is the purpose of this Manual to present the general principles on which the teaching of literature is based. It will distinguish between the intensive and the extensive study of literature; it will consider what material is suitable for children at different ages; it will discuss the reasons for various steps in lesson procedure; and it will illustrate methods by giving, for use in different Forms, lesson plans in literature that is diverse in its qualities. This Manual is not intended to provide a short and easy way of teaching literature nor to save the teacher from expending thought and labour on his work. The authors do not propose to cover all possible cases and leave nothing for the teacher's ingenuity and originality. WHAT IS LITERATURE? Good literature portrays and interprets human life, its activities, its ideas and emotions, and those things about which human interest and emotion cluster. It gives breadth of view, supplies high ideals of conduct, cultivates the imagination, trains the taste, and develops an appreciation of beauty of form, fitness of phrase, and music of language. The term Literature as used in this Manual is applied especially to those selections in the Ontario Readers which possess in some degree these characteristics. Such selections are unlike the lessons in the text-books in grammar, geography, arithmetic, etc. In these the aim is to determine the facts and the conclusions to which they lead. Even in the Readers, there are some lessons of which this is partly true. For instance, the lesson on Clouds, Rains, and Rivers, by Tyndall, is such as might be found in a text-book in geography or science. Here the information alone is viewed as valuable, and the pupil will probably supplement what he has learned from the book by the study of material objects and natural phenomena. When this lesson is to be studied, the pupil should be taught not only to understand thoroughly what the author is expressing by his language, but also to appreciate the clearness and force with which he has given his message to the world. The pupil should be called upon to examine the author's illustrations, his choice of words, and his paragraph and sentence structure. Each literature lesson in the Reader has some particular force, or charm of thought and expression. There is found in these lessons, not only beauty of thought and feeling, but artistic form as well. In the highest forms of literature, the emotional element predominates, and it should be one to which all mankind, to a greater or less degree, are subject. It is the predominance of these emotional and artistic elements which makes literature a difficult subject to teach. The element of feeling is elusive and can best be taught by the influence of contagion. There is usually less difficulty about the intellectual element, that is, about the meaning of words and phrases, the general thought of the lesson, and the relation of the thoughts to one another and to the whole. [6] [7] THE QUALITIES THAT APPEAL TO CHILDREN AT DIFFERENT AGES This is a psychological problem which can be solved only by a study of the interests and capacities of the children. These interests vary so greatly and make their appearance at such diverse periods in different individuals and in the two sexes, that it is a difficult matter to say with any definiten