Chapter 9

Selections for Memorization 145

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PUBLIC AND SEPARATE SCHOOL COURSE OF STUDY

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FORM I

A. SELECTIONS FROM THE ONTARIO READERS

B. SUPPLEMENTARY READING AND MEMORIZATION: Selection may be made from the following:

I. _To be Read to Pupils_:

1. NURSERY RHYMES: 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_:

1. MEMORY GEMS: Specimens of these may be found in the Public School Manuals on Primary Reading and Literature.

2. FROM THE READERS: Morning Hymn; Evening Prayer; The Swing; What I Should Do; Alice.

FORM II

A. SELECTIONS FROM SECOND READER

B. SUPPLEMENTARY READING AND MEMORIZATION: Selection may be made from the following:

I. _To be Read to Pupils_:

1. NARRATIVE 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. NATURE 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 READER:

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.

FORM III

A. SELECTIONS FROM THIRD READER

B. SUPPLEMENTARY READING 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 READER:

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.

FORM IV

A. SELECTIONS FROM FOURTH READER

B. SUPPLEMENTARY READING AND MEMORIZATION: Selections may be made from the list prepared annually by the Department of Education.

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