Angola High School - Key Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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MRS. L. W. FAIRFIELD, Drawing.

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J. RAYMOND GODLOVE, Mathematics. MYRTLE CREAMER Latin.

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(ouRse of Study The course of study for the Angola High School is planned in accordance with the requirements for commissioned High Schools of Indiana as approved by an act of the General Assembly, March 9, 1907. In addition to these requirements, Manual Training and Parliamentary Law are taught. Whenever a student wins thirty-two credits in this course, he or she becomes eligible to graduation from the Angola High School. Of these thirty-two credits, necessary to graduation, eighteen are required and fourteen are elective. A credit means satisfactory work in one subject recited five periods per week for one semester. The amount of work given is outlined below. ENGLISH Language is fundamentally the basis of all education. Without a fair knowledge of our mother tongue, it is impossible for any person to become a clear thinker or to make himself understood. Hence the work in English is emphasized in the High School course. Four years are offered, three years of which are required for graduation. For those who take a minimum of the foreign language requirement, four years of English arc necessary to graduate. The work in English consists of the study of composition and rhetoric and the reading of English classics together with the history of American literature in the third year and of English literature in the fourth year. In addition to the critical study of classics in class, a number of books are required for home reading, upon which the pupils are examined. Memorizing choice selections and class debates are features of the English course. Beyond the regular work in English, the Senior class during the last semester of this year has pursued the study of technical English Grammar. HISTORY For the enrichment of the student’s life and the development of his moral nature, no better subject is found than History. Besides giving one a picture of the progress of the human race. History affords the best basis for development of the reasoning powers. A further reason why it claims a prominent place in the school program, is the basis it furnishes for the solution of governmental problems with which the student must come in contact. In the Angola High School four years of History are offered, three years of which are requiied for graduation. This work consists of one year in Greek and Roman History, one year in Modern, one-half vear of United States History and onc-half year of Civics. The work is given in the order just indicated. In addition to the work specified, a year’s work in English History is offered as an elective.