ney.
3. Forebodings of Ill.
4. The Sleep.
5. The Bugle.
6. The Passing.
7. Evangeline's Dream.
8. Journey Continued.
9. Arrival.
SEC. III.
_Re-union. Search Again._
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10.
SEC. IV.
_Search Continued._
1. The Great West.
2. Old Camp Fires.
3. The Shawnee--Confidences.
4. March Resumed.
5. The Mission.
6. Patience.
7. Rumors. On to Michigan.
8. Years of Search.
SEC. V.
_Search Ended._
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6.
PART II.
STUDY OF THE TEXT.
(1.) Lessons I-XXVII.
(2.) Composition Subjects.
The questions on the following pages are intended to be suggestive of lines
of study. Others of like or different import will occur to the teacher.
Don't be confined to the written questions. Many others will be needed to
bring out the artistic and spiritual values of the poem and to keep the
thread of the story in mind.
Pupils are expected to know the meaning of words and the particular one the
author employs. The understanding of a passage often depends on the meaning
of a single word. (See Part III.)
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
EVANGELINE--PART I.
SEC. I.
_Introduction. Grand Pre._
Lesson I, Lines 1-57.
The author gives us a hint of the nature of his narrative. In what lines
does he directly refer to it? This is a story of what? What three qualities
had this thing? What two pictures does the author contrast, lines 6-15? Why
murmuring pines? What two parts of one picture, lines 1-5? Why compare to
the roe? In what ways did their lives resemble a river? Why October leaves?
Remember--this is a story of what? Its three qualities are what? What is
the first picture in Section I? What quality of the people is referred to
in line 24? The Acadians were engaged in what industry? Would their lives
be more peaceful in this than in other lines of labor? Why use reposed, line
32? Who was intimately associated with all the life of the village? Explain
lines 52-56 and 57.
_Evangeline._
Lesson II, Lines 58-81.
What is the topic of this lesson? Who is also introduced to us? Describe.
What does the comparison with an oak suggest? What was Evangeline's age?
Describe her appearance. What qualities does this description show of her?
What was Benedict's most marked characteristic? Evangeline's?
_Home and Childhood of Evangeline and Gabriel._
Lesson III, Lin
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