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Title: Catalogue and circular of information of the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Subjects: New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Publisher: (Montclair, N.J.) : New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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scussions and read-ings. (b) American Education—The study of European educa-tion is supplemented by a brief course, which traces the successiveideals of the different streams of early American civilization, thegrowth of the public school systems in the United States, originand development of normal schools, and a study of some of themost important American contributions to the literature of edu-cation. Special attention will be given to the origin and de-velopment of the public school system o<f New Jersey and tothe different institutions of learning in the State. The writ-ings of Barnard, Martin, Hinsdale, Boone, Dexter, Winship,Thwing, Wickersham, Monroe and others will furnish the back-ground of the required readings. English. English is required four hours per week throughout one year. Literature—The aim of this course is to bring- students toan appreciation of the nature of literature and its relation to life,in order that they may know what should be their aim in present-
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State Normal School at Montclair. 35 ing literature themselves, and what should control their choice ofliterature in the elementary grades. The course is divided into Parts I. and II. Part L The following types of literature are studied : ( 1) Theepic, the Odyssey (Bryants translation); the ballad-epic, Ar-nolds Sohrab and Rustuni; a brief study of the transition from,the epic to the lyric and the dramatic, a study of the fundamentalrelation of form to the life it embodies and expresses. (2) Thelyric, Palgraves Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. (3) The-dramatic, Shakespeares Tempest. (4) The short story, appre-ciation of such masters as Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Stevenson*and Kipling. Part II. The reading of literature suitable for use in elemen-tary grades. Courses of literature for the elementary schools de-veloped. The method of presentation of literature, illustratedby actual lesson-plans prepared for different grades as directed;class discussion of these lesson-plans. Pedagogica

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