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b. | Gesture begins in the face | 106 | |||||
c. | Hands and arms lie close to the body in controlled emotion | 106 | |||||
4. | A power of personality | 106 | |||||
5. | Suggestions for telling | 107 | |||||
a. | The establishment of the personal relation between the teacher and the listener | 108 | |||||
b. | The placing of the story in a concrete situation for the child | 110 | |||||
c. | The consideration of the child's aim in listening, by the teacher in her preparation | 112 | |||||
6. | The telling of the tale | 112 | |||||
a. | The re-creative method of story-telling. Illustrated by a criticism of the telling of The Princess and the Pea | 114 | |||||
b. | The re-creative method illustrated by The Foolish, Timid Rabbit | 116 | |||||
7. | Adaptation of the fairy tale. Illustrated by Thumbelina and by The Snow Man | 118 | |||||
III. | The return from the child | 119 | |||||
Story-telling as one phase of the art of teaching. Introductory | 119 | ||||||
1. | Teaching as good art and as great art; and fairy tales as subject-matter suited to accomplish high purposes in teaching | 120 | |||||
2. | The part the child has to play in story-telling | 121 | |||||
3. | The child's return, the expression of his natural instincts or general interests | 125 | |||||
1. | The instinct of conversation | 125 | |||||
a. | Language expression, oral re-telling | 125 | |||||
b. | The formation of original little stories | 126 | |||||
c. | Reading of the tale a form of creative reaction | 127 | |||||
2. | The instinct of inquiry | 127 | |||||
a. | Appeal of the folk-tale to this instinct | 128 | |||||
b. | The instinct of inquiry united to the instinct of conversation, of construction, and of artistic expression, illustrated | 128 | |||||
3. | The instinct of construction | 129 |