現代散文と詩のあらすじ

The 10 key ideas

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   Enjoyment comes first when you teach reading

   Margaret Ashmun opens her preface with a plain claim. Teachers now agree, she says, that a student's enjoyment of what he reads should be the chief concern of the classroom. Knowledge and ability grow out of that enjoyment.

   From this she draws a second belief. Modern writers deal with subjects closer to a young person's own interests than the old approved authors do. She keeps the readable older books, but she wants recent work to get its fair share. Young people meet modern writing every day, so they need standards for choosing what they read.

   Around each piece sit study questions, theme topics, notes on names and places, and reading lists. The questions ask why an author opens as he does, and whether the reader liked the piece. Pleasure in reading is the soil in which skill grows.

2. 2

   A French inn on the Bronx welcomes a hungry painter

   The first selection is a travel sketch by F. Hopkinson Smith, a painter who tells it himself.

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3. 3

   A silent recruit puzzles a tent of soldiers

   Thomas Bailey Aldrich tells Quite So as a soldier in the Union army in 1861.

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4. 4

   Short poems teach a reader to look and listen

   The poems fall into small families.

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5. 5

   A bishop's open door meets a hardened convict

   Augusta Stevenson turns a scene from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables into a short play called Jean Valjean.

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6. 6

   Wit and nerve carry two heroes through danger

   Mary Johnston's A Combat on the Sands comes from her novel To Have and to Hold.

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7. 7

   An immigrant girl finds liberty in a public school

   Mary Antin's chapter from The Promised Land describes her family's first months in Boston after leaving Polotzk in Russia.

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8. 8

   Three short stories show how people reveal themselves

   William Dean Howells's A Romance of Real Life begins when a magazine writer answers his doorbell late at night.

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   Writers make a place so vivid you can stand in it

   Dallas Lore Sharp's Christmas in the Woods follows him on a walk along the Cohansey in New Jersey after twenty years away.

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    Poets and essayists question the nation they live in

    Edmund Clarence Stedman's Pan in Wall Street pictures the Greek god Pan playing his reed pipe beside the Treasury until a policeman pushes him away.

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