Teachers' outlines for studies in English, based on the requirements for admission to college

The guide offers practical lesson plans and classroom procedures for secondary-school English organized around a three-step method: preparation, careful reading to establish facts, and comprehensive study. It provides chapter-by-chapter outlines, discussion questions, and activities—maps, summaries, and comparison exercises—for novels, narrative and lyric poetry, drama, and essays commonly used for college entrance. Sample outlines cover works such as Ivanhoe, The Vicar of Wakefield, Silas Marner, The Lady of the Lake, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Idylls of the King, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, The Merchant of Venice, and representative essays; an appendix surveys college entrance examinations in English.