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Show 121 GENERAL INTERPRETATION remedy-a-the practice of the particular aim using hand, or portion of a selection in study, as the example. The sick will always need the physician; as Ayres so pertinently indicates, "The student of the art of delivery never finishes, there is always something left for him to learn." Literary Forms. In order to be able to treat the great field of literature more intelligently it may be better to take up the study of specialized literary forms, under separate divisions, for the pur pose of studying their specific difference of treatment. We shall therefore partition general literature into nine divisions: story, humor, dialect, heroic, burlesque, dramatic, allegory, pathos, and lyric. Others may make more or less divisions, but we have found to resort to the proper the selection in these to be the natural divisions for the oral reader. it is impossible more of these more of these to find literature which will not the To be sure, fall into selection may combine one or or sections; but it is for to consider classifications; study, well, only the most prominent characteristic. Here as elsewhere center the attention upon one elemental principle at a time. A College Course. We should have now passed out of the high school, and into college. If your high school is so happily advanced as to be able to give more than two years to interpretation, then courses in speech composition and debate should be added. If, however, your high school is so wise and progressive that the clas sics can be taught by a teacher trained in oral interpretation, and by interpretative methods, the continuation of the study of oral literature should be done in connection with English courses, using the prescribed literature for the various years in secondary schools If our book, "Interpretative Selections for High Schools," does not give you enough material for two years, there is something wrong with your teaching. Either you are a young teacher-and they al even two . . ways eat up all the material to be found and cry for more-or you Do your work thoroughly and you will not be able to are skimming. find time for all the selections recommended. stances use the iiterary material in our Under no circum book "Interpretative Selec Colleges" in high school; the selections are not suitable for secondary schools; they will be too difficult to handle, because tions for the technical training, as well as the student's mental-emotional . |
