Identifier: dramaticmethodof00finl (find matches)
Title: The dramatic method of teaching
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Finlay-Johnson, Harriet Cyr, Ellen M., d. 1920, ed
Subjects: Drama in education Teaching Schools
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ting the Cratchitts Christmas Dinner, and used toenter most whole-heartedly into the spirit of the thing.They were able to dress the piece more easily than theirhistorical plays, because the period represented was moremodern. Bob Cratchitt wore a long white scarf, whichdangled below his waistcoat. He wore the black-tailed coatwhich did duty for an officers coat in the Nelson play.They used to draw a table up in front of the school fireon dull, dreary, wet winter afternoons, and revel in thespirit of good humor and loving kindness which Dickensdesigned to inculcate. I am quite sure that in the years to come, when lessonson vulgar fractions have been long forgotten and cob-webbed oer, those afternoons and the lessons they taughtwill stand out in relief from the pages of memory. If Shakespeare was good for their improvement inEnglish, so Dickens was their textbook for homely good-ness. We who read and love Dickens know how magicallyhe constructs an atmosphere for us-—how, like a silver
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LITERATURE 123 thread running through a string of pearls, goodness andvirtue connect all the emotions he stirs in us. So it waswith my younger pupils. They acted the ChristmasCarol every Christmas in their simple fashion, and allfelt better for it. From Tiny Tim they learned to sympa-thize with all weak, afflicted things. They learned content-ment and resignation from Bob Cratchitt, who earned but fifteen of his own namesakes every week, yet the spiritof Christmas present blessed him. They learned cheer-fulness and good-will from Scrooges nephew Fred, who,although Christmas had never put a scrap of gold orsilver in his pocket, said God bless it, and would keephis Christmas humor to the last. Even Scrooge himselfhad lessons to teach them — to abhor meanness and sel-fishness ; to be merciful; to use Christmas as a time forputting away all grudges and quarrels, as well as for set-tling up all debts ; above all, not to be afraid of reform-ing thoroughly, when necessary, regardless of th

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