Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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AIJELPHI ACADENIY. 33 of a correct pronunciation, and of a vocabulary for common use. There is some reading of easy French, as in Premieres Lectures des Enfants and Anecdotes Nouvelles. There is practice in writing French and in committing short passages to memory. The study of French in the Academy is not a mere matter of memorizing. From the beginning, it is treated as a valuable educational instrument, and it is used to awaken and quicken the pupil's reasoning powers, and to enforce the important lessons of other studies. I. Sixth Grade, Reading and Conversing. Systematic drill, oral and written, in the elements of the language. Drill Book A. Three times a week. 2. Seventh Grade. Drill Book A finished. Reading and Con- versingg simple compositions in French. Three times a week. 3. Eighth Grade. Drill Book B5 rapid reading of short stories Ueune Siberienne, ,Chien du Capitaine, etc.jg translation from English into Frenchg dictation exercises. Three hours a week. 4. junior Year. Reading of French histories, with discussions and exercise in translation. Optional. Three hours a week. ' 5. junior Middle Year. French Literature, XIX. Century CManuel de Litterature Frangaisejg letter-writing, discussions. Optional. Three hours a week. 6. Senior Middle Year. French Literature, XVIII. Century, collateral readingg French compositions. Optional. Three hours a week. 7. Senior Year. French Literature, XVII. Century, as before. Optional. Three hours a week. B. THE SPANISH LAxoUAoE. It is intended to provide sdfficient instruction in Spanish to enable the pupil to tall-2 and read the language. The plan of work will have especial reference to the probable use of Spanish in trade, and, as soon as possible, the class is set to reading current newspapers published in Spanish. This subject is optional for any Collegiate student, and the Course in Spanish extends through at least two years. C. THE GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Prior to the Sixth Grade, the Adelphi student may have instruction in German through four years, and he should become the master of a consid erable vocabulary. During the year 1895-96, on account of the necessary transition from the old to the new course of study, there will be no instruc- tion in German in the Fifth Grade. The instruction in German in the second and third primary

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32 ADB L PIJI A1 C21 DEA! if SUMMARY OF STUDIES, BY DEPARTFIENTS. I, Department of English.: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 'The continuous English work in the Academy, from the First to the .Seventh Grade inclusive, carries the pupil through a large amount of reading in History, Literature, Geography, and Natural Science. It is expected that the scholar will study English, so far as possible, by the laboratory method, by reading, repeating, discussing. and if possible, f66lZ'7Zg' many of the masterpieces of the mother tongue. Above the Seventh Grade the English studies ot the Classical students are, necessarily, partly governed by the requirements for admission to college. In general, however, the plan for all Courses is substantially as follows : I. Eighth Grade. Selected Worlrs of XIX. Century authors, American and British, Irving, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, Wa1'ner, Parkman, George Eliot, Scott, Kingsley, Tennyson. Composi- tions. Three hours a week. 2. Junior Year. The Literature of the XIX. Century, with the special study of Style. Compositions. In the Classical and Scientific Courses, two hours a week, in the Collegiate Course, four hours a week. 3. Junior Middle Year. Origins and History of the English language and study of the earlier literature, from Chaucer through the XVI. Century. Compositions. Collegiate and Scientific Courses, three hours a week, Classical Course, two hours a week. 4. Senior Middle Year. Literature of the XVII. and XVIII. Centuries, from Shakspere through the Puritan period and the age of Queen Anne. Special study of the Drama. Compositions. All Courses, three hours a week. 5. Senior Year. Literature of the XVIII. and XIX. Centuries, from the age of revolution to the present time. Special study ofthe Essay and the Novel. Compositions. All Courses, three hours a week. H, Department of Modern Languages. A, THE FRENCH LAN- GUAGE AND LITERATURE. The French instruction in the Fourth and Fifth grades is chiefly oral. Especial attention is given to the acquisition

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34 ADE.T.PHI AOADI5llfl1'. grades is begun with the use oflarge colored pictures, from which are taught the names ofthe persons and objects portrayed, with appropri- ate adjectives, verbs, and phrases of position. Gradually, a few simple songs are learned, poems committed to memory, and guessing games played. Later, simple stories are told, and reproduced by the children. Object lessons on simple plant and animal life are also given in German. H From the beginning, the vvords learned are made the basis of reading lessons, which are written on the board and read by the chil- dren at sight. As a result ofthe instruction in the primary grades during the past year, the children have acquired the ability to use about two hundred and fifty words in conversation and description, and to recognize one hundred and ifty Words more when used in stories told to them. In all over jhur hundred Words are recognized. The children are also able to read over three hundred and Hfty words in lessons written on the board. I. Seventh Grade. joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Part l. V on Eichendorf: Ausdem Leben eines Taugenichts. Selections from HauFE's Die Karavane. Conversation and simple compositions. 2. Eighth Grade. Leander's Traiimereien. Otis' Grammar. Van Daell's Preparatory Reader. 3, Junigr Year, joynes-Meissner's Grammar, Part II. Schiller's der Neffe als Onkel, and Wilhelm Tell. Conversation and composition. Lectures in German. 4. Junior Middle Year. Whitney's Grammar. Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, Paul Heyse's die Blinden. Conversation and composition. Lectures: Study of poems. 5. Senior Middle Year. VVhitney's Grammar and German Reader, Goethe's Iphigenia, Herman G'1'i1'1'11'1'lYS Essays. Conversation and -composition. Lectures. V 6. Senior Year, VVhitney's Grammar and Reader, Gustav Frei- tag's Soll und Haben. Reading of German periodicals. Conversation and composition. Lectures. lll. Department of Ancient Languages. A, THE LATIN LAN- GUAGE AKD LITERATURE. I. Sixth Gradef Oral practice. Etyniologies. Lesson Book. Gradatim. Three times a week. 2. Seventh Grade. Gradatim. Grammar. Four times a week.