A Young Girl 116 Handwritten pages on, Shakespeare, "Treatment of Jews," and Literature in 1920-1921 Clinton, IL High School

[Girls Education], Handwritten

Handwritten Journal

High school girl’s English notebook with handwritten, original essays on Shakespeare and George Eliot from 1920-1921 academic year. 10 x 8 in. Original black cloth boards. 116 pages. Entries from 1920-1921. Handwritten in ink on inside front cover “Nellie Johnson, CCHS ’24”. Clinton Community High School in Clinton, IL. First homework entry dated December 14, 1920. Includes chapters on grammar, literature devices, and poetry. 2 large hand-drawn literary analysis diagrams. Chapter book reports with teacher’s corrections and very interesting, full-page hand-drawn “Diagram of Plots” on George Eliot’s “Silas Marner”. “At the New Year’s party Priscilla said she was obliged to the same gowns and Nancy because she was five years older than her. And at the first sight of Godfrey Cass that Nancy saw and her arrival there, then the Squire came in and gave a loud greeting to her father…” Diagram highlights 3 major plot points: The Reward, The Substitute, and The Theft. Hand-drawn chart of rising action for Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Includes original essays on “Character Sketch of Portia” and “The Treatment of the Jews”. “Antonia was a rich merchant in Venice. He owned several large ships, which would sail to other countries and procured cargo of spices and other merchandise. Shylock, the Jew, as a wealthy Jew, but all he had was money and jewels. That was all he could own…”

“Outlines of Parts of Speech” such as nouns, verbs, participles, and pronouns. “Personal pronoun is a pronoun that shows by its form whether it denotes the person speaking, the person spoken to, or the person spoken of.” Final section contains notes on “Narrative Poetry” and defines terms such as meter, stanza, and scansion. Includes original poem “Nature Pictures”. “I. The sun came up upon the left out of the sea, As the sun raised the next morning, It looked like it came out of the sea, because the ship was so far from land that there was nothing else in sight only the sea so it looked like it came out of the sea. // II. And on the night went down into the sea. This picture was almost like the one where the sun come up out the sea, only the sun was sitting and made a reflection on it…” Boards are worn. Clean interior. Good to very good condition.

Item #16814

Price: $350.00