Asheville School - Blue and White Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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20 Asheville School. SECOND FORM. English: Reading of such books as Stepping Stones to Litera- ture for Fifth and Sixth Grades. Spelling. Punctuation. Composition. Letter- writing. Elements of English Grammar. Arithmetic: Decimal Fractions and Compound Numbers, completed. Many problems. Georgaphy: Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia in detail. Collateral reading. Drawing. THIRD FORM. English: Reading. Study of Parts of Speech and Syntax. Punctuation. Composition. Arithmetic: Percentage, omitting Stocks and Stock Invest- ments. Simple Interest, all cases. History: United States, through period of the Revolution. Collateral reading. Drawing. FOURTH FORM. English: Reading. Grammar, completed. Punctuation. Composition. Arithmetic: Partial Payments. Bank Discount. Longitude and Time. Exchange. Insurance. Duties or Customs. Ratio. Simple and Compound Proportion. Partnership. Involution. Square Root. Metric System. Latin : Paradigms and simple syntax. Marking of quantity of vowels. Easy reading. Written exercises. Reading of Latin aloud. Training in understanding the Latin before translating. History: United States, including Constitution, completed. Collateral reading. Modeling.

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. a . HE Courses of Study mention the minimum requirements for each form. Pupils of either course are permitted and encouraged to take studies of the other course when additional work can be done profitably. Each pupil must take all studies required for entrance to the college of his choice. Both Physics and Chemistry must be taken by pupils of the Scientific Course, and each pupil of this course must take such languages of the group Latin, German or French, as his chosen college requires for admission. Pupils who intend to offer two years of German and two years of French for admission to college will take German in the fifth and sixth forms and French in the seventh and eighth forms. FIRST FORM. English : Reading of such books as Hawthorne ' s Wonder Book. Spelling. Punctuation. Composition. Letter-writing. Arithmetic: Greatest Common Divisor. Least Common Mul- tiple. Cancellation. Common Fractions (including Sim- ple, Complex and Compound Fractions) completed. Many problems. Geography: North America and South America in detail. Collateral reading. Drawing. [19]

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Ashevill e School. 21 FIFTH FORM— Classical. English: Reading of examples of various styles of narrative and descriptive literature in both prose and verse. Study of words and sentences. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin: Selections from Viri Romae and Nepos. Caesar ' s Gal- lic War, Bk. II. Prose composition based on Caesar. Mathematics: Algebra, through Quadratic Equations. History: Outlines of General History. Carpentry. FIFTH FORM — Scientific. English: Reading of examples of various styles of narrative and descriptive literature in both prose and verse. Study of words and sentences. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin, Selections from Viri Romae and Nepos. Caesar ' s Gallic or War, Bk. II. Prose composition based on Casaer. German I: See page 24 for details. Mathematics: Algebra, through Quadratic Equations. History: Outlines of General History. Carpentry. SIXTH FORM— Classical. English: Reading of such works as Twice-Told Tales, As You Like It, The Idylls of the King. Advanced study of words, sentences, paragraphs. Compositions, narrative and descriptive. Latin: Caesar ' s Gallic War, Bks. I-III-IV. Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bk. I. Caesar and Nepos at sight. Prose Composition based on Caesar. Greek: Paradigms and simple syntax. Xenophon ' s Anabasis (20 to 30 pages). Practice in translation at sight and in writing Greek. Systematic study of Grammar begun. Mathematics: Plane Geometry, completed. History: Greece.