Cranford
Book Description
If Cranford is not approached in a careful and sympathetic manner it may be a disappointing book to both teacher and pupil. Some preparation is needed, to make, in the common expression of the word, an atmosphere. The teacher may blaze the way by telling about the characteristics of an English village or by exhibiting pictures or post-cards of Knutsford. Pupils may contribute their share toward th...
MoreIf Cranford is not approached in a careful and sympathetic manner it may be a disappointing book to both teacher and pupil. Some preparation is needed, to make, in the common expression of the word, an atmosphere. The teacher may blaze the way by telling about the characteristics of an English village or by exhibiting pictures or post-cards of Knutsford. Pupils may contribute their share toward the preparation by telling or writing about village life as they know it. These accounts should be acute in giving careful particulars and details of the ways of the people of the village, their houses, their gossip, and their views of the world. This preparation, however, should not be done after the manner of a big whistle on a small boat, all noise and no speed. Kather should it be a prelude, quietly and easily done, that a harmonious proportion may be established. History, with all its accessories, should be avoided as the very plague itself. A nother help in appreciating Cranford is to read it aloud. Those gossipy old ladies of Cranford were eloquent with their tongues and sharp with their wits. At the card table, the tea table, in the shop, in the drawing-room, wherever they were, they wagged their tongues in ceaseless talk. Sprightliness and brightness mark the humor of the book, and they can best be brought out by oral reading. Such reading, too, will lead the reader and his hearers to pick up many a tid-bit of humor, that their dull inner ear may otherwise fail to catch. No teacher can expect Cranford to be as funny as the comic sheet of a Sunday newspaper, but he can be sure if the proper preparation is made that 1T hese cards may be obtained from Mr. F. A lcock, 95 King Street, nntsford, Cheshire, at a trifling expense. The most expeditions way of getting them is to send a small sum about thirty-five cents in the form of the International Money Order, purch
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