Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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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.

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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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' ADEI,PHI ACAJJEMY. 35 3. Eighth Grade. First Latin Readings. Nepos. Four hours a week. 4. Junior Year. Classical Course. Optional in Collegiate and Scientific courses. Cicero's Orations and Letters. Ovid. Sight Reading, especially in Cmsar. Latin Composition. Four hours a week. . 5. junior Middle Year: Classical Course. Optional in Collegiate and Scientinc Courses. Caesar, Cicero and Vergil. Sight Reading. Latin Composition. Four hours a week. 6. Senior Middle Year: Classical Course. Optional in Collegiate Course. Vergil. Sight Reading and Reviews. Latin Composition. Four 'hours a week. , 7. Senior Year: Optional in Collegiate and Classical Courses. Advanced Reading. Three hours a Week. B. THE GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. I. Eighth Grade. Optional, but required for admission to Classi- cal Course. Lesson Book. Three hours a week. 2. Jun tor Year. Classical Course. Lesson Book. Xenophon's Anabasis. Sight Reading. Greek Composition. Four hours a week. 3. junior Middle Year. Classical Course. The Anabasis and Hel- leuica. The -Iliad begun. Sight Reading. Greek Composition. Four hours a week. 4. Senior Middle Year. Classical Course. Homer and Herodc- .tus. Sight Reading. Greek Composition. Four hours a week. 5. Senior Year: Optional in Classical Course. Advanced Read- ing. IV, Department of History and Politics. Prior to the Sixth Grade, a large part of the required work in reading, and in the study -of English is based upon historical readers and historical stories suit- able for young students. Throughout the Sixth and Seventh Grades the History of the English Race is a required study, comprising the social and political history ofthe English race in all its homes. The work is conducted topically and by reference readings so far as pos- sible. In the Eighth Grade historical rcding and study are inter- woven, so far as possible, with the required workin English and other languages. I. Junior Year. Classical and Collegiate Courses. History of the 'Greek and Roman Nations and Civilization. Myers' Ancient History. Three times a week. 2. Junior Year. Scientific Course. General History. Myers' 'Text Book. Two hours a. week.