Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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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.

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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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The most careful attention is given at the outset to pronunciation, as mistakes in pronunciation once become habitual are very difficult to correct. 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 given in the class- room in pronunciation and in answering questions in German based on the text-book work. The text used has been Spanhoofd ' s Lehrbitch der Deutschcn Sprachc, supplementetl by occasional poems for memorization. Gcnitan 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 into practice in translation from English into German. For this purpose the first part of Thomas ' German Grammar is completed, which is then followed by the reading of Grimm ' s Kiiider-nnd Haiisinaerclien. In the second semester the reading of Storm ' s Iminensee is accompanied by Bernhardt ' s German Composition and followed by Schiller ' s Wilhelm Tell. A special effort is made in this course to get the student to pro- nounce the language fluently and naturally, and hence much practice is given in reading aloud in the class-room. German III. In the work of the third year an effort is made to in- troduce 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. In this way the selection develops itself as a piece of literature, not as an exercise in translation. 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 of pronunciation is insisted on. The following texts are read: Heyse ' s L ' Arrahbiata. Hillern ' s Hoeher als Die Kirehe. Lessing ' s Minna I ' on Barnhchn. Schiller ' s Der Neffe als Onkel. Thomas ' German Grammar (as reference.) German IV. The fourth year work in German consists of a study of the History of German Literature. For this purpose Bernhardt ' s Deutsche Litteraturgeschichte is used as a text book, supplemented by work in Wenckebach ' s Meisterwerke des Mittelalters and Keller ' s Bilder aits der Deutschcn Litteratur. In addition to this work, two plays of Schiller are read during the year. In 1907-1908 these were Wilhelm Tell and Die Jiingfrau von Orleans. In 1908-1909 they will be Die Jiinsfrau von Orleans and Maria Stuart.