Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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The work is divided into two classes, — free hand and mechanical. The free hand drawing is done with pencil, charcoal, crayon and water- color, and includes work in ligtit and shade, nature studies, pose drawing, illustrating, copying, designing, and historical ornament. In connection with the drawing work the lives of great artists are studied. During the past year Michaelangelo, Reynolds, Rembrandt, Rosa Bonheur and Landseer have been studied. The mechanical drawing is done with the square, compass and other incidental tools. Each student taking this course has to provide himself with a drawing set. The course is carried out as outlined in Thomson ' s Mechanical Drawing Books. LATIN. The Latin course covers the full four years of high school study, three of wh ich are required. The object of the course is to give the student a general knowledge of the language which will enable him to read accurately and with some degree of fluency. Inasmuch as at least one half of the words in the English language are derived from thje Latin, it is absolutely necessary to study Latin in order to understand the English language. Latin I. The first year is spent on the declensions, conjugations and other fundamentals of the subject. The Subjunctive Mode is thoroughly worked out and the subject of Indirect Discourse analyzed in detail. Latin IL During the second year four books of Caesar are read. The study of Latin grammar is carried throughout the year and all references to the grammar are looked up. Latin IIL The four orations of Cicero against Cataline are read in the third year. In addition Pro Archias and some of Cicero ' s Letters are read. Prose composition is given one day in the week during the whole year. Latin IV. Vergil is read in the last year, six books being the usual amount read. Scansion and versification together with prosody and syntax are given. A brief survey of Latin literature closes the final year of the course. HISTORY. The history course covers three full years of work. The work begins in the second year with Greek and Roman history, is continued in the third year with Medieval and Modern and concluded in the fourth year with United States history and Civics.

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subjects previously not being sufficient to study them in detail. Field work will be required during the fall and spring months in order to bring the pupils face to face with the growing plants in their native habitats. The minimum requirement will be fifty analyzed Spermatophytes and fif- teen each of the Pteridophytes and Bryophytes. MUSIC. If music be the food of love, play on. Music is occupying a more important place in our education today than ever before. Harvard now demands an entrance examination in music just the same as in Algebra or anything else. Recent legislation in our own state has put the subject into our country schools, and every new teacher after this year, will have to take an examination in music. The entering freshman from the city schools has had eight years of musical training in the grades and is well grounded in the fundamentals. The great difficulty in each freshman class is the fact that so many come from the country schools where music is not taught. This is bound to make the work in the first year in the high school more or less difficult. The law requires that each high school student take at least two years in music. This course in our own high school includes a review of the fundamentals, note, scale and syllable singing, ear training, harmony, the study of famous musicians and, finally the singing of some standard codas. The lives of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schuman, Schubert and Wagner have been studied. During the past year the following codas have been sung: Bells of Seville, XiglU, Praise Ye the Father, The Old Guard, Wandering in Woodlands, Hunting Song and Swing Song. The first condition in efifective design is to know what we wish to do. To know what we wish to do is to have an idea; to express that idea we require principles and a form. Viollet-le-Duc. The great purpose of drawing in the public school is to lead the child to see beauty in his environment ; to observe with care ; to read pic- tures intelligently ; to appreciate the beautiful in nature. The drawing work in our city schools has been going five years so that the present Freshman class has had four years of drawing before they entered high school. As in music, those pupils from the country are handicapped by not having had any previous work in drawing. Their work must be necessarily dilTercnt from those who have had it four years.

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History II. This course starts with a brief survey of the ancient civilizations of Eg)pt, Assyria, Chaldaea, Babylonia, Persia, Phoenicia and Palestine, and then takes up a detailed discussion of Greece. Leav- ing Grecian history at the death of Alexander, it takes up Roman history and carries the history of Rome and her possessions down to the time of Charlemagne. History III. The work in the third }car starts with Charlemagne about the year 800 A. D. and carries the main threads of European his- tory from that date dow n to the present time. Especial stress is put on Feudalism, Crusades, Reformation, Growth of Papacy, Rise of Various Nations, and the Political Evolution of England. The French Revo- lution is carefully studied and its subsequent bearing on the bicameral systems of monarchical Europe. History IV. The course covers U. S. history and is finished in one semester. The work is made as intensive as possible, outside work being assigned, and special topics being worked out by each member of the class. Civics I] ' . The work covers one semester and includes a study of federal, state, county, town and township government. The study of the growth of political union in the United States is followed by a careful analysis of the Constitution. A critical study of our own state and county government closes the work in this course. GERMAN. All educators are agreed that a high school course in German should accomplish at least two important results : It should give the student an insight into the life and literature of the German people, and by its drill in the grammar and vocabulary of the foreign language it should make him all the more skillful in the use of his mother tongue. If, in addition, the student can acquire the ability to use the language in conversation, he has been thrice benefited by its study. Our school course in Ger ' - man has been lengthened to include four full years of work, of which the first three are required, when Latin is not elected, and the fourth year ' s work is elective. 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 over- much stress being laid on the scientific principles of the language which underlie them.