Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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coming into the high school students have learned the fundamental opera- tions. These are now taken up again and followed by more intensive work in factoring, divisors, multiples, fractions, the binomial theorem, involution, extraction of roots, radicals, exponents — fractional and nega- tive, solution of first degree equations of one or more unknown quantities, equations of higher degree falling under this type, and also extensive work in graphing. During the second year special attention is given to the general quadratic and various devices for solving higher degree equa- tions. The one and one half year ' s work is intended to embrace as much as is found in any good text book on the subject. Geometry. One and one half year ' s time and three units credit are given to this subject. Plane Geometry is completed in one year. In this course are embraced the usual theorems and constructions together with such exer- cises as are found in any standard text book. One half year is devoted to solid Geometry and the usual amount of work is completed — including the relations of planes and lines in space, the properties and measurements of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, etc. Accuracy and neatness are strongly emphasized in both Plane and Solid Geometry. Arithmetic. The work in Mathematics for the Senior year consists of one half year ' s work in Business Arithmetic. Here the practical side is emphasized. The fundamental principles are reviewed and various short methods ap- plicable to general calculations are studied. The work is intended to be comprehensive in scope without including any of the useless complicated and obsolete subjects. Many oral and written drills are given to develop accuracy, rapidity and self-reliance. So far as possible, the subject is to familiarize students with the principles of Arithmetic which will be of greatest service to them in a commercial way. ENGLISH There is no subject in the whole high school curriculum which has the general importance that the subject of English possesses. To be able to express oneself in clear, concise, and forcible language is an accomplish- ment which gives its possessor a wonderful advantage in the affairs of every day life. Then there is another side to the subject of English which makes it so important. The ability to read and intelligently in- terpret the. best writers of the literature of the past; to read literature of all kinds, from the newspaper to the De Coverly Papers ; from Clyde

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WILLIAM W. CARTER, Principal M alhematks and English THE FACULTY CARRIE CLINE. Latin and History HUGH M. ACKLEY, Assistant Principal Science and German LOUISE I. STEAGALL i Zusic and Drawing

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Fitch to William Shakespeare; from Whitman to Tennyson. Thus it is seen that the subject of English has two sides, viz., the art of expression and the art of interpretation. The first side is studied under the caption of Composition and Rhetoric and the second phase under the head of Literature. The course in Composition and Rhetoric is taken during the first two years and includes a critical study of a text and the writing of composi- tions. An average of two days a week is put on this work, correlating it as much as possible with the study of the classics. The course in Literature intends to cover all the work demanded for college entrance as well as an intensive study of the general field of American and English literature as set forth in some good manual. The! classics read and studied are as follows : English I. Cooper ' s Last of the Mohicans. Goldsmith ' s Vicar of Wake- field. Shakespeare ' s Merchant of Venice. Hawthorne ' s House of Seven Gables. Lowell ' s Vision of Sir Launfal. In addition two books are read on the outside and a few recitations spent on them to bring out the main points. For 1908-09 these books will be Stevenson ' s Treasure Island and Bunyan ' s Pilgrim ' s Progress. English II. Scott ' s Quentin Durward. Shakespeare ' s Julius Cjesar. Coleridge ' s Ancient Mariner. Franklin ' s Autobiography. Arnold ' s Sohorab and Rustum. Swift ' s Gulliver ' s Travesl. During the second year Scott ' s Ivanhoe, Jane Austen ' s Pride and Prejudice, and Mulock ' s John Halifax will be read on the outside. English III. Tennyson ' s Idylls of the King. Dryden ' s Palamon and Arcite. Eliot ' s Silas Marner. Shakespeare ' s Macbeth. Irving ' s Life of Goldsmith. Ruskin ' s Sesame and Lilies. The outside reading for the third year will include Fliot ' s Mill on the Floss, Ruskin ' s King of the Golden River, Holmes ' Elsie Venner, and Wallace ' s Ben Hur. During this year an intensive study will be made of American Literature, bringing the subject up to 1909. Special atten- tion will be paid to present-day writers and to Luliana literature in particular. English IV. Shakespeare ' s llamlct. Milton ' s Minor Poems. Macaulay ' s Milton, Addison and Johnson. Addison ' s De Coverly Papers. Palgrave ' s Golden Treasurx. Carl le ' s Essay on Burns. The Seniors will read Dickens ' Tale of Two Cities. Eliot ' s Adam Bede, Thackeray ' s Henry Esmond and Hawthorne ' s Marble Faun for out- side work. A small handbook on philology, Anderson ' s Study of Words,