Portland High School - Tifoon Yearbook (Portland, IN)

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i fi Department of English Conclucled. fd '1'1mc1m Yr-Luc: Special study and practice in Argumentative Discourse: kinds of poetry: versi- iicationg development of theme: oral and written narration: criticism: debatesg Word studies: composition work. Critical Study: DeL'overley Papers. Macbeth. and the Princess. Home Readings: Tale of Two Cities. The Mill on the Floss. The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. and The Last of the Mohicans. l'itJI'K'l'Il Yiaxicz The study of English Literature: studied chronologically and intensively. The use of some standard manual. The minute and critical study of those master- pieces. not previously studied. that will give the student a comprehensive view of the English literature as a whole. Home Readings: Adam liede. Marble lfaun. Vanity Fair. and Idylls of the King. U Crt. it . XXXK -P-s 'max 1 ivtsxgsi-wg x I ' ' X . X X , t . ,Q 1 W 4 2, is 1 4,, X 2 K ix ' 'T 'P '. ' ' T , . WM . pl Kimi? P ct. X , Twp' I- tvi11:::l!g, X gn . 4- i .1 'J Vw lx ,ip p 1 '- ' M44 Q .. . il nlnx . 1' V X X , 1 Aft. 1 ' 1 Wil? ' .54 tx ...fr it 'U +416 Birks 3gLU,1..., f '- i 'V : iW'5ii ':ii'X'iYNit r- ' - rf- J1 I1-MIMKQ.. ,jj ' Xkib- xx x 531.11 sb X - in .iff Y ' .J , to .n,r' A 1- , ,- '1'71',k 1 N Q f ' -X , ' vvvvvv' t V, ..- f g . ,v I nf L

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lil Department of English. IL H. W. BONVENS, Instructor. y The course in English covers four years ' cl -i l week throughout the entire course. s and pioxic cs for four recitations a The Work for the lirst three years embraces three lines of study, vizzl ety- mology, literature and composition. As far as possible these lines are pursued con- temporaneously. The Work of the Fourth year includes a general idea of English 'Litearture together with a minute and critical stud ' f f ' if l 's 't pieces. y o many o tie English master- Additional requirements to the above lines of work are Rhetoricals and Home .Readings. The Rhetoricals are orations, essays, and declamations which are de- livered before the High School. i . . OUTLINE CF COURSE. EiRST YEA1e:-- ' L Study of sentence, paragraph construction and development. Principals of clearness, coherence, sequence and unity. A review of grammar whenever neces- sary for intelligent class work. Narration and description, Word studies: composi- tion work. ' Critical Study: Julius Caesar, Lady of the Lake: selections from Bryant. Holmes, and Longfellow. A A S Home Readings: Qld Curiosity Shop, House of Seven Gables. The Spy. and Ivanhoe. SEcoNn YEAR :- A study of ligures of speech, qualities of style, continued study of the para- graph, oral and Written narrative, theme development. Sentences. loose. periodic. and balanced, Word studies, composition Writing. Critical Study: Merchant of Venice, Enoch Arden. Home Readings: The Pilot, The Traveller, David Copperlield. and Vicar of W'ake1ield. .

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IC Department of Mathematics. fc H. H. JoURNEY, Instructor. As there exists in the mind a capacity for measuring, the object in the work in mathematics is to satisfy this. i' Power to measure comes largely through the ability to reason well, and so, much emphasis is placed upon the reasoning in various steps. The practical appli- cation is always sought. . The courses here offered are sufficiently extensive for admission into any of the colleges and universities of Indiana. FIRST YEAR-First Term. Algebra. Second Term. Algebra. SECOND YEAR-First Term. Algebra. A Second Term. Algebra. 1 Remarks:-Much stress is laid upon factoring, theory of exponents, quadratics and the use of the equation. In this course the application of Physics and the ad- vanced work in mathematics is kept in view. The student observes three steps in attacking a problem, lst, Construction, 2nd, Equation or Problem, and 3rd, Solution. and finds but little difficulty in making the transition lto lst, Data, 2nd, To prove. and 3rd, Proof of Geometry.