An Evaluation of Extensive and Intensive Teaching of Literature: A Year's Experiment in the Eleventh Grade |
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amusement Antony appreciation asked beautiful bird Brutus BX BY CX Calpurnia Cassius character correlation COUNT FROM STENOGRAPHIC coward CX CY Decius emotion English Excalibur experiences Explain expression extensive method EXTENSIVE READING extensive-reading classes extensive-reading group feeling figures of speech Gareth and Lynette girl give given going Golden Treasury Guinevere happy ideas Idylls intensive intensive-study classes intensive-study group Julius Cæsar King Arthur knights Lancelot and Elaine lesson plans lines literature studied Lizette Woodworth Reese Lynette's Matilda Mean Merlin metonymy Modern Essays Modern Poetry nightingale number of words person picture play poem poet poetic PUPIL read or quoted recitation Regents Examination Rupert Brooke says scene scores sentence Shelley short story shows Sir Bedivere Sir Kay Smiles song stanza STENOGRAPHIC REPORTS syllabus TEACHER tell TEST SYMBOL QUESTIONS theme things thou thought Wee Willie Winkie WORD COUNT Wordsworth write Y classes
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Page 118 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, — we feel that it is there.
Page 81 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour?
Page 129 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards : Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry fays...
Page 79 - Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world; Hated by one he loves...
Page 53 - And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the Northern Sea. So...
Page 71 - Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt; Either from lust of gold, or like a girl Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes. Yet, for a man may fail in duty twice, And the third time may prosper, get thee hence: But, if thou spare to fling Excalibur, I will arise and slay thee with my hands.
Page 115 - Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Page 200 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed...
Page 72 - The bare black cliff clang' d round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.