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

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Asheville School. 21 FOURTH FORM— Clasiscal. 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. FOURTH FORM— Scientific. 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 Wars, Bks. I-III-IV. Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bk. I. Caesar and Nepos at sight. Prose composition based on Caesar. German I or II: See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Plane Geometry, completed. History: England. Shopwork: Mechanical Drawing. FIFTH FORM— Classical. English : Reading and study of books required for preliminary examinations for entrance to college. Elements of Rhet- oric. Compositions, descriptive and argumentative. Latin: Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bks. II-VI, and either the Eclogues or Bks. VII-IX of Aeneid. Prose composition, based on Caesar. Translation of prose Latin at sight. Greek: Xenophon ' s Anabasis, continued, Bks. I-IV, together with other Attic prose. Practice in translation at sight. Systematic study of Grammar and practice in writing Greek, based on study of Bks. I and II of the Anabasis. I

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20 A s h ev ill e School. SECOND 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 quantities 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. THIRD 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. THIRD 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. Pross compositon based on Caesar. German I: See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Algebra, through Quadratic Equations. History: Outlines of General History. Carpentry.

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22 Asheville School. German I (optional) : See page 23 for details. OR French I (optional) : See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Reviews of Elementary Algebra and Plane Geometry. History: Rome. Reviews of Greece and Rome. FIFTH FORM— Scientific. English: Reading and study of books required for preliminary examinations for entrance to college. Elements of Rhet- oric. Compositions, descriptive and argumentative. German II: See page 23 for details. OR French I: See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Solid Geometry. Plane and Spherical Trig- onometry. Reviews of Elementary Algebra and Plane Geometry. History: United States. Reviews of England and United States. Physics: Including laboratory work. SIXTH FORM — Classical. English: Reading and study of books required for final exam- ination for entrance to college. Elements of Rhetoric. Compositions, prepared and extempore. Latin: Cicero, six orations. Ovid, 1000 lines. Vergil ' s Aeneid and Cicero at sight. Prose composition based on Cicero and Caesar. Greek: Homer ' s Iliad, Bks. I-III, and other books of Iliad or Odyssey. Thirty to fifty pages of Attic prose, as basis for prose composition. Translation at sight. German, I or II: See page 23 for details. or French I or II: See page 23 for details. Mathematics: Advanced Algebra, completed.