Chapter IX: 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 AEsop 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
Temeraire--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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