Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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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.

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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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This two-fold purpose has been kept in view in the preparation of our High School course in German. The work is arrang ed to cover the first three and one-half years of the High School course. German I. The object of the first few months ' work in German is principally to get the student to think and feel the new language. Hence at first many facts and phrases are taught simply as such, without too much stress being laid on the scientific principles of the language which underly them. The most careful attention is given at the outset to the pronunciation. At the end of the first year the student is expected to have a good working knowledge of the grammar and inflections of the language, and his vocabulary should be such as will enable him to read the simpler German texts at sight. Constant, daily practice is gi en in the class-room in pronunciation and in answering questions in German on the texts read. The following books are used in the first year : Guerber ' s Marchen und Erzalungen. (Thomas ' German Gram- mar, begun.) . .German II. The principal aim in the second year course is to fix firmly in mind the forms and principles of German grammar and to put them in practice in translation from English into Ger- man. For this purpose the first part of Thomas ' German Grammar, commenced in the first year, is completed. A special effort is made to get the student to pronounce the language fluently and naturally, and hence much practice is given in reading aloud in the class room. The following is the list of books read : Thomas ' German Grammar, Part I. (completed.) Grimm ' s Kinder-und Hausmarchen. Storm ' s Immensee. Schiller ' s Wilhelm Tell. German III. In the work of this year an effort is made to introduce the student to the real German atmosphere and literature ; and the works read are studied as nearly as possible in the same way that works in the student ' s own language would be studied. Recitations are conducted as far as possible in German and the texts read are made the basis of exercises in conversation. As in the second year, fluency in pronunciation is insisted on, and here- after no one will be allowed to enter upon the fourth year work who cannot read with ease, rapidity and naturalness, any ordinary German selection at sight. The following texts are read : Heyse ' s L Arrabbiata. Hillern ' s Hoher als die Kirche. Lessing ' s Minna von Barnhelm. Schiller ' s Maria Stuart. Thomas ' German Grammar (as reference.) m