Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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German IV. The fourth year course is simply a continuation of the third year ' s work. The works studied are : Schiller ' s Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Poems of Schiller, Goethe and Heine. Introduction to German Literature . (Bernhardt.) MATHEMATICS. MR. CARTER No subject will contribute more to mental discipline than mathematics. The chief object of the High School should be to develop efficiency. In order to become efficient, boys and girls must be trained to think well. The study of mathematics, if prop- erly directed, will accomplish this end better than any other subject. It may be that in a few years after leaving the High School students will have forgotten how to factor a complicated algebraic expression or to demonstrate a difficult proposition, yet the effect of the mental discipline will remain and that is the thing most to be desired after all. Algebra— This work covers one and one-half years in time, and is intended to give such a thorough notion of the elementary principles of Algebra that students completing it can readily take up college algebra. Subjects dwelt on in particular are: The four fundamental operations with rational algebraic ex- pressions, factoring, divisors and multiples, fractions, involution, the binomial theorem, extraction of roots, radicals, and fractional and negative exponents. In addition to the above, the following- are emphasized: The solution of equations of the first degree in which one or more unknown quantities are involved ; the quadratic equations of higher degree that fall under this type, and graphing. During the last half year special attention is directed to the general quadratic, and some of the subjects dealt with in a more elementary way during the first year are now treated in a more advanced way. A good deal of attention is paid to applications, and accuracy is emphasized throughout. Geometry— Our plan is to devote the last semester of the second year and all the third year to this subject. The work in- cludes all the usual theorems and constructions, with a study of plain rectilinear figures, the circle and angle measurements, poly- gons, areas, etc. In addition to the above the solution of original exercises and problems given in the text are taken up in full. The second semester of the third year will be devoted to the study of solid geometry.

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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

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SCIENCE. MR. ACKLEY Physics — The work in Physics is taken up in the third year of the High School course. It is the foundation of all the High School work in science. An effort is made to so arrange the work that it will be of equal value to the student whose education ends with his High School course, and the prospective college student as well. The work is taken up under the heads of Mechanics, Sound, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, and Light; the subjects of Mechanics, Sound, and the first part of Heat being studied the first semester, and the work finished the second semester. The course consistes of class room work accompanied by illustrative lecture experiments, and individual laboratory work, the former oc- cupying four class hours per week, and the latter two hours. The fundamental laws and phenomena of physics are carefully studied and, in addition, throughout the course special attention is given to the applications of these laws to every day life. In the work in electricity, especially, a study is made of its applications in com- mercial and industrial lines. The equipment for experimental work, especially in electricity is good, and is being increased as rapidly as possible. Several new pieces of apparatus have been added this year. The text used this year has been Hoadley ' s Physics, with Cheston, Dean and Timmerman ' s Laboratory Manual. Each pupil is required to keep a note book containing a record of his laboratory work. fc Chemistry — The work in Chemistry follows the work in Phys- ics, being taken up during the senior year. The course consists of class room and laboratory work as in Physics — four hours of recitation, and two hours laboratory work per week. Remsen ' s Revised Chemistry is the text used, and the class room discussions are illustrated by demonstration experiments. The laboratory work is so arranged as to constantly supplement the text book work and apply the principles being studied. After a nreliminary study of the elements, oxygen and hydrogen, a careful study of the non-metals is made. Considerable time is spent in studying the more important of the non-metals, esoccially chlorine, nitrogen, sulphur and carbon : and the consideration of the acids which they form leads to the theory of neutralization and the formation of salts. Then in the second semester the metals are taken up in turn, accord- ing to their grouping in the Periodic Law. A review of both the metals and the non-metals completes the course. Each student is required to keep a laboratory note book as in the course in Physics.