Abilene High School - Orange and Brown Yearbook (Abilene, KS)

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Outline oi Courses CLASSICAL COURSE 9 'I FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR 1. English I 1. English II -. Algebra I 2. Geometry I 3. Latin I or German I 3. Latin II or German II 4. Ancient History ' 4. Botany THIRD YEAR FOURTH YEAR 1. English III 1. Latin IV 2. Algebra II and Geometry II Z. Physics I U. Latin III or German III 3. American History 4 . Chemistry NOIIMAII THAI 4.' Economics and Contemporary Life NING COURSE 9 FIRST YEAR SECOND YEAR 1. English I 1. English II 2. Algebra I 2. Geometry I TI. Physiography and General Science 3. Agriculture 4. Spelling and Word Study 4. Ancient History TIIIRD YEAR FOURTH YEAR 1. English III 1. Normal Reviews 2. English Ilistory and Civics -. Physics II. Physiology and Psychology 3. lllethods and Arithmetic 4. Music 4. American Ilistory INIIYSTRIA L COURSE ' FIRST YEAR 1. English I 9. Algebra I 3, Physiography and General Science 4. Domestic Art l ffor girlsl 5. Manual Training I ffor boysl THIRD YEAR 1. English III 2. Algebra II and Geolnetry II fboysl 3. Chemistry frequired for girlsl 4. Domestic Art Il fgirlsl 5. Manual Training III fboysl SECOND YEAR English II Geometry I Botany or Agriculture 4. Domestic Science I Cgirlsl Manual Training II fboysl 1. 0 9 -1. 5. FOVRTII YEAR 1. American History 2. Economics and Contemporary Life 3. Physics -1. Domestic Science II 5 Mechanical Drawing fboysl Cl INIBIICIICIAII C0 URSE FIRST YEAR 1. English I 2. Algebral 3 4 . Spelling and IVord Study . Elem. Accts. and Business Methods THIRD YEAR 1. English III 2. English History and Civics fl. ,Commercial Arithmetic 4. Typewriting and Stenography I FOURTEEN SECOND YEAR l 'P . English II . Geometry I . Ancient History . Adv, Bookkeeping and Com. Law 3 4 FOURTH YEAR Journalism and Business English 1. 2. American History . Economics and Contemporary Life 5. Typewriting and Stenography II 9 Q1

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Courses of Stud in High School Heretofore We have offered three courses in High School. One, the College Preparatory, was intended for students preparing for this work. Another, the Nor- mal Training, led to a teacher's certificate, and was chosen by those looking toward this work. The- third, the General course, was intended for students who were to enter active life on completion of the High School period. These courses, while good, do not serve as they should the pupils who come to us. Too many have aims that are not served by these lines of work. For this as well as for other reasons the en- tire curriculum of the High School has been reorganized. Four courses now exist where before there were only three. A new course has been added and the char- acter of the other courses changed. The College Preparatory course becomes the Classical course. It offers three years of English, four of Latin, three of German, three of Mathemntii-s, four of His- tory and Economics, and three of Science. It is the course to be followed by those who are preparing for the Bachelor of Arts course in any college or university. lt constitutes a broad basis of general culture on which to build subsequent courses of education. It looks especially toward the scholarly professions. The Normal Training course remains practically as it was, since this course is outlined by the State Board of Education. It is taken by students wl1o desire to teach. It offers three years of English, two of Mathematics, three of History and Government, four of Science, one of Music, one and a half of Normal Reviews, and one of Psychology and Methods. The student who completes this course in proper form receives a certificate valid for two years and renewable at expiration. The Industrial course is a new one. While Manual Training and Domestic Science tcookingj and Art tsewingl have been offered in the school before, the work has not been systematized into a four-year course. This work offers three years of English, two years of American History and Economics, four years of Science and three years of Mathematics for boys and two for girls. The girls in this course take two years each of Domestic Science and of Domestic Art, while the boys have four years of Manual Training and Mechanical Drawing. This is preeminently the course for all students Who expect to deal with things rather than ideas. The school will earnestly endeavor to make this course one of the richest in content in the school. The Commercial course is also a new one. The time has come in our estima- tion when any boy or girl looking forward to a business life has a right to ask for adequate preparation for such a life at the hands of the home community. The course will be especially thorough. It offers four years of English, including one of Journalism and Business English: two years of High School Mathematics and one of Commercial Arithmeticg three of History and Economics, one year of Ele- mentary and Advanced Bookkeeping, and one of Business Methods and Commercial Law: one year of Spelling and Word Study, and two of Typewriting and Steno- graphy. No effort will be spared to make this course effective in preparing young people for business life. It offers a thorough High School education combined with the special training necessary for commercial work. A special instructor will be in supervision of this course. THIRTEEN

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he Work of the .School Department of English FRESHMAN ENGLISH The work in Freshman English is necessarily very elementary. Its aim, in modified form, is that of the other years of the course: to stimulate appreciative reading, and to develop in the pupils the ability to express their ideas, both orally and in writing, with a fair degree of correctness. From the beginning, these two sides of the work, literature and composition, are correlated. During the first year, the pupils are encouraged to read for the storyg that is, to read with the idea of getting the full message of the author, rather than with the idea of criticism. The first book used is Ashmun's t'Prose Literature for Sec- ondary Schools, a collection of short stories, nature studies, and biographies. This, with a little book of ballad poetry, comprises the class reading for the first semester. The second semester, three novels are studied: Ivanhoe, The Last of the Mo- hicans, and David Copperfield. Outside of class, each pupil reads and reports upon at least one book each six weeks. In the composition work, the Freshmen students use no textbookg instead they build a notebook of rules for themselves. These rules are very few, only enough to serve as the necessary tools in the craft of writing. Many themes are re- quiredg during the first term, one oral and one written theme each week, on an average, are given by every member of the class. The pupils help each other by criticizing the composition work heard in class, and soon come to realize points of weakness and of strength. Letter writing, particularly business correspondence, receives special stress. Along with the constructive work goes the persistent combatting of faulty habits of speech, the almost futile endeavor to replace the picturesque High School vocabulary with another which will be equally expressive even if not aggressively up-to-date. SOPHOMORE ENGLISH After having had one year of rudimentary drill in English, pupils now take up a more advanced study of composition. The first portion of Stebbin's English for Secondary Schools is used as a text. Simple rhetorical principles are studied, and many paragraphs and exercises are written. Fewer themes are required than in the first year, the idea being to begin intensive study on certain features rather than to do general work upon a large unit of material. The first classic studied always is Silas Marnerf' in which pupils have their introduction to character study and plot development. Irving's Alhambra,', with its description and legends of enchanted palaces, this Year has replaced the Sketch Book read formerly. The Merchant of Venice marked the high tide of interest in the course, as each division of the Sophomores presented a scene from the play. Just before the end of the term, Goldsmith's The Deserted Village and the 'iTrav- eler were read. The second semester the classes enjoyed Treasure Island, and then added to their nautical knowledge by studying Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. Three of Tennyson's Idylls of the King complete the reading for the year. In addition to these books studied and recited upon in class, each pupil read one book each six weeks from a list of. suggested literature. If five additional books were read during a semester, the pupil received five per cent more on his term grade. Many pupils took advantage of this opportunity. JUNIOR ENGLISH When the student of A. H. S. becomes a Junior he has ahead of him one more year of required English. 'In this year he is to gain a wider practice in the use of FIFTEEN