Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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CeTman III and IV have been necessarily combined this year. The work has been chiefly the study of two of the best classics in German literature, Schiller ' s Jungfrau von Orleans and Goethe ' s Hermann und Dorothea. In addition to this work a study of the history of German literature has been made from Bernhardt ' s Deutsche Litteraturgeschichte. During the second semester one day of each week has been set apart espe- cially for conversation and composition. A number of the German students have taken an active part in a German Club organized among the teachers and students. TEACHERS ' MEETINGS Teachers ' meetings were held the first Monday of each month at 4:00 P. M. No effort was made to conduct these meetings along the line of literary clubs, but the purpose was to discuss problems and questions which were of direct value to the school. The purpose, throughout the year, has been to organize the school according to one general plan, which means a system of schools in which all are working toward one ideal. The teachers have been very flexible in their notions and always willing to surrender any individual opinions, if by so doing they could assist in improving the general organization of the school. With this continued co-operation much has been accomplished and much greater results are expected in the future. THE TRAINING SCHOOL According to the requirements of a new state law, arrangements were made by the Tri-State College, whereby the Educational Department of that institution is connected with our public schools for the training of teachers. This has proved to be very helpful both to the public schools and the college, and the teachers and pupils greatly appreciate the privilege of this co-operation. Three teachers, whose qualifications and experience must meet the demands of the State Board of Educa- tion, are selected as critic teachers. College students are permitted to visit the classes conducted by these teachers and observe the work done. This stimulates the teachers to do their best and has a wholesome effect on every teacher and pupil in the building. nnnnn

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Latin II. Four books of Caesar are read during the second year and the student is taught to apply the rules of syntax, learned in the first year, to the reading of ordinary Latin. Latin IIL During the third year four orations of Cicero against Catiline are read, together with the Pro Archia Poeta Oratio and the Pro M. Marcello Oratio. In order to keep the principles of Latin syntax ever before the mind of the pupil, prose composition is studied one day in each week throughout the year. Latin IV. Six books of Vergil are read during the fourth year. Scansion and versification are studied and a certain part of each day is devoted to sight read- ing to enable the pupil to read with greater ease. ENGLISH Throughout the four years ' work in English a twofold purpose is kept in mind — to develop the power of (I) Expression and (2) Literary interpretation. The work in Rhetoric in the first two years is replaced by the History of Literature in the last two years — History of American Literature being taken up in the Junior year and that of English Literature in the Senior year. The work in composition extends through the four years, not less than one period each week being devoted to that branch of the work. The following classics are studied carefully : Freshman Year — Cooper ' s Last of the Mohicans, Goldsmith ' s Vicar of Wakefield, Shakespeare ' s Merchant of Venice, Hawthorne ' s House of Seven Gables, Lowell ' s Vision of Sir Launfal. Sophomore Year — Scott ' s Ivanhoe, Shakespeare ' s Julius Caesar, Coleridge ' s .Ancient Mariner, Scott ' s Lady of the Lake, Franklin ' s Autobiography, Arnold ' s Sohrab and Rustum. Junior Year — Tennyson ' s Idyls of the King, Dryden ' s Palamon and Arcite, Shakespeare ' s Macbeth, Eliot ' s Silas Marner, Ruskin ' s Sesame and Lilies, Shake- speare ' s Twelfth Night. Senior Year — Milton ' s Minor Poems, Addison ' s De Coverley Papers, Macaulay ' s Milton, Addison, and Johnson, Shakespeare ' s Hamlet, Palgrave ' s Golden Treasury, Anderson ' s Word Study. In addition to the above-named classics to be studied carefully, two or three books are read outside the usual work by each class. The course in English is intended to give students a rather comprehensive view of English and American Literature with a glimpse, from time to time, into that of other countries. GERMAN A four years ' course in German is offered. German I — The chief object of the first year ' s study of German is to secure a good working knowledge of the grammar and the ability to make use, in con- versation, of the vocabulary. Correct pronunciation is insisted upon from the be- ginning. The text used is Spanhoofd ' s Lehrbuch der Deutschen Sprache. German II — In the second year a deeper and more thorough study of the grammar is made, Thomas ' German Grammar being the text. Storm ' s Immensee and Grimm ' s Kinder und Hausmaerchen are read and are made the basis of frequent exercises in conversation.

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