Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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WILLIAM W. CARTER Principal yJlgebra and Laiin HUGH M. ACKLEY Science and Qerman We FACULTY LOUISE E. RIEMAN dTKCusic and ' Drawing FRANK BURTSFIELD Geometry and History

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ERNEST y. SHOCKLEY Supednlindeni

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Frequent tests in other subjects serve to strengthen the ability to write clearly and concisely. LATIN. MR. CARTER It is possible to master the mother tongue only by studying other languages. The person who has a working knowledge of some foreign language is thereby better prepared to use his own. No other language is so helpful in this respect as the Latin, since so much of the English Language is taken from the Latin. The culturel value of Latin is certainly as great as that of any other subject taught in our schools. A four years ' course in Latin is offered as follows : Latin L— Bennett ' s Foundation of Latin. At the beginning of the year a short time is spent in a review of English Grammar, taking up parts of speech, sentence structure, etc. This, however, is mostly done incidentally. Much stress is put on inflections, case forms and verb forms, hoping to so thoroughly ground students in these elementary principles that they will have no dil culty in recognizing forms when they begin to read Caesar the next year. Such easy composition work as is given in the te.xt, with some ad- ditional exercises, is done. Latin IL— The first four books of Caesar ' s Gallic war. Latin III.— This year the four orations against Catiline, and at least one of the following are read : Archias, The Manilian Law, Marcellus, Milo, or Sestius. Definite time is given to prose com- position as a text, translating into Latin detached sentences and easy continuous prose. Latin IV.— The first six books of the Aeneid. In connection with this the study of prosody is taken up. especially as related to accent, versification and scansion. Throughout the four years ' work much care is taken to get students to pronounce correctly, and with this object in view, they are required to read the Latin text daily in class. GERMAN. MR. ACKLEY It is generally admitted that a High School course in German should accomplish two important results: It should give the student an insight into the life and literature of the German people ; and it should so drill him in the grammar and vocabulary of the language as to make it possible for him to use it in conversation.