386 NA TURE-STUDY REVIEW 



Second Year High School 



There is now a vast wealth of material which has come from the 

 literature teaching of the nine grades. The job of the first year 

 Hi^h should now be to assort and assimilate all of this material. 

 That is, the historical development of our literature is our next 

 project. The things which have been studied must be put in a 

 chronological program. They must be related to each other 

 now, not in content, but in their historical order. The natural 

 is not dealt with at all, save as you bring all of the authors studied 

 into this year's table. I can give very little in the way of sugges- 

 tion for the work of this year. It is practically an American 

 Literature course. There is this exception, however. Most of 

 the materials studied for such a course have been taken up in 

 one way or another, so that the year can be given over largely 

 to biography. The short story has not been much used, and a 

 certain period should be given to it at this time. Also, the drama 

 deserves attention at this point. An interest in periodical litera- 

 ture may be excited by reference to it for review of the authors 

 studied, and for short stories and critical comm.ents upon drama 

 and the arts and literature. I have followed this grade with a 

 short list of suggestive materials. Not that I mean that all of 

 these should be used, but it is the sort which will be helpful in a 

 formulation of the course. Of course the content of the course 

 will depend most of all upon what sort of thing has been most 

 lacking in the literature study which the students have had 

 previous to this grade. 



Much of the following is teaching material rather than the sort 

 of thing which I think the student should be asked to read. The 

 instructor should scan periodicals for intimate studies of the 

 men presented. Just a suggestion of the sort of material appli- 

 cable to this year's work, follows: 



Burroughs — Fifty Years of John Burroughs — (by D. L. Sharp 

 in Atlantic. 106:631) 



Burroughs — Indoor Studies (Especially the chapters on Gilbert, 

 White, Thoreau, Science and Literature, and Solitude.) 



John Burroughs' Supremacy as a Nature Writer — Current 

 Literature 49:681 



Burroughs — ^Whitman — a Study (For teacher especially.) 



