Castle Heights Military Academy - Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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SDEEDED READING AND SDEEEING AT CASTLE HEIGHTS Often it happens that a boy is sincere and hard-work- ing in his efforts to prepare his assignments, the indica- tions are that he wants to study and knows the proper procedure, aptitude tests indicate that he is of normal or even superior intelligence, yet he does not make pro- gress. What is the difficulty? Many times the answer will be the same, Bill does not know how to read. On the secondary level very little is being done about it because many school authorities insist that reading is a job for the elementary school, and if Bill and all the rest do not learn, they will never be good readers. As a result of tests made at Castle Heights the indi- cation was that about forty per cent of the cadet corps did not measure up to the standards of what a boy of his age and grade should do. This statement would be true, applied to any normal high school. As an individual case a boy may be best at oral read- ing. This condition would account, to some extent, for his being a slow silent reader-he can read no faster than his lips will move. Other boys find their greatest difficulty in oral reading. Such condition necessitates phonetic drill which also proves a great help in spelling. As a third type, there is the boy who reads a paragraph or a page and then has no idea of what he has read. He has to spend so much effort on the actual mechanics of reading that he has no attention left to apply to the contents of the material read. At Castle Heights nationally standardized reading tests are administered to the cadets to determine their rate, vocabulary, and comprehension of reading. If a boy shows any indication that poor reading is the cause of lack of proper or normal achievement, he is placed in a reading clinic for remedial work. There he is given addi- tional tests to determine whether or not his trouble is comprehension, rate of reading, knowledge of vocabu- lary, sentence meaning, paragraph comprehension, loca- tion of information, or remembrance of material read. He then is placed in a special reading class, which meets three times each week, and an attempt is made to help him overcome his difiiculties. In extreme cases, he may drop one of his academic subjects so that he may apply more time and energy to his remedial work. No actual grades are given in this reading work, but from time to time additional standardized tests are given to determine what progress is being made. Our experience has been that as a result of this con- centration of effort on reading, boys who have been failing work have often brought their grades to a place well above the minimum passing level. Typically the poor reader has never liked to read. Proper corrective measures have resulted in his learning how to read, read- ing of his own record, and liking the experience. Spelling. Nationally standardized spelling tests rec- ommended by the Educational Records Bureau are a part of the battery of tests given to cadets during the fall test- ing program. Cadets who have spelling deficiencies are placed in small classes that meet twice each week. Cadets are then issued a copy of the spelling book, The Self- Teaching Speller, edited by Dr. Wheeler, and the English Department uses this and other related materials to im- prove the spelling and vocabulary of each cadet. Cadeis improving their comprehension and reading rate by praciice on SRA Reading Accelerators. DR. WHEELER

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This course is open only to those cadets who are high school graduates. OUTLINE OF TWO-YEAR COURSE Accounting I Typewriting Commercial Law Economics M Salesmanship H SECOND YEAR: Accounting II Business English Business Arithmetic Finance and Banking ACCOUNTING I: A study of the fundamentals of double entry accounting. A student is taught the entire ac- counting cycle composed of journal entries, posting, working sheet, adjusting and closing entries, profit and loss, balance sheet, and post-closing trial balance, for a sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation, with emphasis on the ability to reason out the appropriate debits and credits, and not mere clerical procedure. TYPEWRITING: Typewriting is taught for its personal use value as well as for the purpose of giving a boy a chance to advance in the business world. A speed of forty words per minute is required for the first year, which is reached by 95 per cent of the students. ACCOUNTING II: The second year of accounting consists of a thorough application of the principles of accounting, with emphasis on the corporation type of business enter- prise. Cost Accounting and auditing are taught during the second term. COMMERCIAL LAW: A course covering the important branches of the law as they concern the problems which arise daily in the business world, the study of commercial law is stressed in any course which leads to a career in that Held. The subjects which are covered in this course include the following: 1. Administration of the Law 2. Contracts 9. Master and Servant 3. Sales 10. Partnership 4. Bailments 11. Corporations 5. Carriers 12. Insurance 6. Negotiable Instruments 13. Real Property 7. Suretyship and Guaranty 14. Torts 8. Agency 15. Crimes The course also includes lectures by law professors from Cumberland University Law School and observation classes at the regular Law School Moot Court trials. ECONOMICS: This is a course primarily for beginners in the field of economics. The aim of the course is to draw a comparison between the theory of economists and the general practice of the modern industrial world. In the first part of the course the theory of production, distribution, and consumption, the principles of banking, and international trade are studied. In the latter part our governmental system is viewed, and an exhaustive survey is made of such problems as unemployment, labor unions, taxes, wages and hours, and tariffs. The student prepares papers on economic problems under careful supervision of the instructor, and in general practical economics supplants theoretical study. BUSINESS ENGLISH: This course deals with all types of business communications, from inter-office transactions to sales letters and collection letters. The object of the course is to teach young men the fundamentals of Eng- lish so that they may carry on social and business trans- actions more efficiently. BUSINESS ARITHMETICZ We take up problems that the bus- iness man meets daily and work them out, thus preparing the student to solve, more quickly and more easily, the problems which will arise in the business world. FINANCE AND BANKING: We study the organization of all types of businesses, especially the corporation. From this course the student can get a very thorough knowledge of how corporations are formed, financed and controlled. SALESMANSI-IIP: It is impossible to teach a man to be a salesman but in this course the student learns the fun- damental requirements of salesmanship. Every student in the class has a chance for practical application of these fundamentals. The full course in Business Administration requires two years and leads to the school certifrate at its completion. CADET AT BOOKKEEPING MACHINE

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