Literature in the Elementary School Part 12

"The Mountain and the Squirrel," Emerson.

THIRD YEAR

_Robinson Crusoe_.

_Sinbad the Sailor._ _Toomai of the Elephants._--Kipling.

_Rikki-Tikki-Tavi._--Kipling.

_Reynard the Fox._ (Selected stories.) "_Uncle Remus._" (Selected stories.) "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England," Mrs. Hemans.

"Columbus," Joaquin Miller.

The Twenty-third Psalm. Authorized Version.

"The Idle Shepherd Boys," Wordsworth.

"Spinning Song," Wordsworth.

"The Village Blacksmith," Longfellow.

"Tubal Cain," Mackay.

"The Wreck of the Hesperus," Longfellow.

"The Discoverer of the North Cape," Longfellow.

"The Spider and the Fly," Mary Howitt.

"The Palm Tree," Whittier.

"Hiawatha Builds His Canoe," Longfellow.

Dramatization of a story of some voyager or pioneer.

FOURTH YEAR

_Robin Hood_ (given partly from Howard Pyle's _Robin Hood_, partly from the Ballads).

"Under the Greenwood Tree," Shakespeare.

"Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind," Shakespeare.

"Waken, Lords and Ladies Gay," Scott.

"Meg Merriles," Keats.

"The Chough and the Crow," Baillie.

"Song of Marion's Men," Bryant.

"My Captain," Whitman.

"Lochinvar," Scott.

"The Shepherd of King Admetus," Lowell.

"Abou Ben Ahdem," Hunt.

"Yussouf," Lowell.

"Sherwood," Alfred Noyes.

"March," Wordsworth.

"When Icicles Hang by the Wall," Shakespeare.

"The Jabberwocky," _Alice in Wonderland_.

FIFTH YEAR

_The Odyssey._--George Herbert Palmer. (Translation.) _Gulliver's Travels_: "The Voyage to Lilliput."

"The White Seal," Kipling.

"The Coast-wise Lights," Kipling.

"The Sea," Barry Cornwall.

"Sir Patrick Spens," Folk Ballad.

"The Inchcape Rock," Southey.

"To a Waterfowl," Bryant.

"Lead, Kindly Light," Newman.

"The Chambered Nautilus," Holmes.

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," Yeats.

"Breathes There a Man," Scott.

"Uphill," Christina Rossetti.

"The Long White Seam," Jean Ingelow.

"The Exile of Erin," Campbell.

SIXTH YEAR

Heroic adventures from the chivalric cycles of King Arthur, of Siegfried, of Roland, and The Cid, and selected episodes from _Don Quixote_.

or

_The Drums of the Fore and Aft._--Kipling; _Rip Van Winkle._--Irving; _The Bee-Man of Orn._--Stockton; _Old Pipes and the Dryad._--Stockton; _The Man Born to Be King._--Morris.

"The Lady of Shalott," Tennyson.

"Hack and Hew," Bliss Carman.

"The Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier.

"The Cloud," Sh.e.l.ly.

"The Walrus and the Carpenter," from _Alice in Wonderland_.

SEVENTH YEAR

_The Great Stone Face._--Hawthorne.

_The Snow Image._--Hawthorne.

_The Gold Bug._--Poe.

_The Pot of Broth._--Yeats.

_The Hour-Gla.s.s._--Yeats.

"A Dissertation on Roast Pig," Lamb.

"The Vision of Mirza," Addison.

"King Robert of Sicily," Longfellow.

"Horatius at the Bridge," Macaulay.

"The Ballad of East and West," Kipling.

"Heroes," Edna Dean Proctor.

"The Yarn of the Nancy Bell," Gilbert.

"The Wolf and the Mastiff," Fontaine.

EIGHTH YEAR

_Julius Caesar._--Shakespeare.

_The Tempest._--Shakespeare.

_Sohrab and Rustum._--Arnold.

_Treasure Island._--Stevenson.

"Old China," Charles Lamb.

_Wake Robin_ (selections).--John Burroughs.