BROWN A NATURE-STUDY PROJECT 371 



This brings us to the June program. 

 Summer Motive. 



Insect life 



Emerson — Humble-B ee 



Field— The Oak and the Ivy. 



— The Mouse and the Moonbeam. 

 —Frost,Robert— Blueberries. 



Irving — The Angler. 



Whittier— The Barefoot Boy. 



Markham— The Butterfly 

 —The Cricket 



Larcom, Lucy — Rock and Rill. 

 — In the Rain. 

 — Nature the Book and other nature verses. 



Emerson — Holidays 



Illustrate all of the summer motive with such works as: 



Inness — ^After a Summer Shower. (Use legend of pot of gold.) 



Corot — Summer Woods. (For dreaminess and nymphs.) 



MacDowell — To a Wild Rose. (For pure idyllic purpose.) 

 Patriotic Motive. 



Holmes — Old Ironsides. 



Whittier — Barbara Frietchie. 



Ballads. Develop the idea of the ballad, its origin and value. 



Illustrate with group singing. 



Yankee Doodle and the earlier natonal songs can be shown as 

 coming from the ballad form. 



Use any simple, easily understood flag or histrionic poem or 

 prose bit. 

 Fall Work. 



I think that as an introduction to the fall work, a few days 

 spent with birds and pets would be interesting That is, lead 

 up to an interest in birds through an interest in pets. Black 

 Beauty will well illustrate the sort of side reading story which 

 boys will like. Again, Muir's "Stickeen" will be well studied 

 in this place. Bring out the heroism of animals. The endurance, 

 the strength, the nobility of some animal characters can be em- 

 phasized. Stickeen should be studied in class. 

 Next, the following course could be followed: 



Whittier— The Huskers. 



