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Assignment: Prepare problems 14-16 (section 38, 2, pp. 211-13). Students not familiar with Macbeth should read the play in preparation for the scenes from it. Practice pronouncing the words listed under section 48, 1.

Recitation: : Practice, in concert, the words listed under 48, 1. Reading of problems 14-16. Parts may be assigned for problems 15 and 16.

Assignment: Prepare the scene from The Rivals (problem 17). Several members of the class may prepare fiveminute talks on subjects relating to Sheridan, e.g. (1) a brief account of his life; (2) his plays; (3) his other activities; (4) characters in The Rivals.

Recitation: Short talks on Sheridan and his work. Reading of scene from The Rivals. Parts may be assigned, if practicable, and the scene enacted several times by different members of the class.

Assignment: Study Chapter IX, prepare examples so that the principles they illustrate will be evident in the reading. Bring list of words, written out to hand in, offering some difficulty and requiring care in enunciation.

Chapter IX

Recitation: Discussion of lists of words submitted as exercises in enunciation. Recitation on Chapter IX with reading of examples and discussion of them in relation to the principles they illustrate.

Assignment: Prepare problems 1-3 (section 40, 2, 3, pp. 241-48). Write a synopsis of some poem and be prepared to read the synopsis and the poem to illustrate the difference between unemotional and emotional speech.

Recitation: Reading of problems 1-3 and illustrations brought by members of the class.

Assignment: Prepare problems 4-6 (section 40, 1, c, p. 239). Bring prose selection of about ten lines as an exercise in enunciation, giving particular attention to section 48, 2, p. 308.)

Recitation: Exercises in action of tongue and lips, with reading of lines brought by individual students as exercises in enunciation. Reading of problems 4-6. Parts for scene

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from Henry IV (problem 6) may be assigned. If practicable the scene may be repeated by different members of the

class.

Assignment: Study problems 7-11. Memorize lines from The Merchant of Venice (problem 10). Read section 48, 3, and bring list of words commonly mispronounced with incorrect and correct pronunciation indicated.

Recitation: Read, in concert, the lines from The Passing of Arthur (pp. 310-11). Reading of problems 7-11. Problem 10 to be written out in class from memory. Several members called on to recite the lines to the class.

Assignment: Prepare problems 12-13. Memorize The Burial of Moses (problem 13).

Recitation: Discussion of lists of words commonly mispronounced. Reading of problems 12-13, with special attention to grandeur of imagery and the expression of it in tone and time. Members of class called on to recite from memory different stanzas of The Burial of Moses.

Assignment: Prepare problems 14-16 (section 40, 2, pp. 241-44). Bring, written out to hand in, a list of words heard mispronounced within the last twenty-four hours.

Recitation: Reading of problems 14-16.

Assignment: Prepare problems 17-19 (section 40, 3, pp. 244-48). Memorize For A' That (problem 19).

Recitation: Read in concert the lines from Hamlet (p. 311) for distinctness and correctness. Reading of problems 17-19, with particular attention to sustained tone and firm, dignified, inflectional emphasis. Members of class called on to recite from memory different stanzas of For A' That. Assignment: Prepare The Legend Beautiful (problem

20).

Enunciation: Review of essential principles of good tone and clear speech. Reading of The Legend Beautiful.

Assignment: Prepare for recitation before class some selection memorized during the course.

Recitation: Recitation of memorized selections.

Assignment: Review of text.

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INDEX

INDEX

A' That and A' That, For, 274–75.
Abou Ben Adhem, 41-42.
Addison, Joseph, Hymn, 138-39.
Address at His Brother's Funeral
(Ingersoll), 188.

Address on Abraham Lincoln, 39.
Affectation, cause of, in elocution,
7; ineffectiveness of, 107-08.
Alexander, Mrs. C. F., The Burial of
Moses, 264-66.

American Flag, The, 135.

Analysis, illustrations of, for clear-

ness, 19-20; importance of, 20–21.
Antithesis, how expressed, 59.
Antony and Cleopatra, 68.
Arnold, Edwin, The Swallows, 194.
Arnold, George, The Jolly Old Peda-
gogue, 224-26.
Arnold, Matthew, Sweetness and
Light, 189.

Assignments, program of, 330-42.
As You Like It, 94; 224-25.
At the End of the Day, 159-60.
Attention, necessity of, in reading,
21; and force, 106.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The,
62; 95-96; 207-08; 283-84.

Baedeker, Switzerland, 252; 254.
Bailey, Philip James, Festus, 31.
Ballad of the Revenge, The, 243.
Bards of the Bible, 216–17.
Becket, 71.

Beecher, Henry Ward, Address on
Abraham Lincoln, 39; Raising the
Flag Over Fort Sumter, 70.
Benson, Arthur C., From a College
Window, 240.

Bible, I Corinthians, 91; Ecclesiastes,
153-54; Genesis, 133; II Peter,
84; Proverbs, 62; Psalms, 141.
Blaine, James G., Funeral Oration
on Garfield, 236.
Boswell, James, Life of Samuel
Johnson, 38.

Breath, management of, 291-92;
exercises for control of, 292–94.
Breathes there the man, 182.
Breathing, and grouping, 33-34.
Bridges, Robert, Washington, 45.
Browne, Thomas, Religio Medici,
260.

Browning, Robert, How They
Brought the Good News from Ghent
to Aix, 131; Cavalier Tunes, 149;
Rabbi Ben Ezra, 180; Pippa
Passes, 193-94; The Pied Piper
of Hamelin, 196–202; Saul, 210–

11.

Bryant, William Cullen, Thanatop-
sis, 38; The Gladness of Nature,
128.

Building of the Ship, The, 179-80.
Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress,
The, 177-79.

Burial of Moses, The, 264-66.
Burial of Sir John Moore, The, 187.
Burns, Robert, For A' That and A'
That, 274-75.

Byron, George Gordon, Childe Har-

old's Pilgrimage, 19; 68; 70; 89;
93; Manfred, 85; The Prisoner of
Chillon, 187; Darkness, 210; Son-
net on Chilton, 252-53.

Cadence, minor, to be avoided, 250–
51.

Call of the Twentieth Century, The,
214.

Carlyle, Thomas, Sartor Resartus,
43; Essay on Biography, 91; Rous-
seau, 94-95.

Carruth, William Herbert, Each in
His Own Tongue, 192–93.
Catiline, 94.

Cavalier Tunes, 149.

Change of pitch, and grouping, 31-
32; definition of, 52; as a means of
emphasis, 54; in relation to inflec-
tion, 54.

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