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

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Asheville School . 23 FOURTH 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. Caesar and Nepos at sight. Prose Composition based on Caesar. Greek: Paradigms and simple S)mtax. 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 and Rome or England. 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. Caesar and Nepos OR at sight. Prose composition based on Caesar. German I or II: See page 25 for details. OR French I or II : See page 25 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 argimientative. Latin: Cicero, six orations. Cicero at sight. Prose composition based on Cicero and Caesar.

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22 Asheville 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. Prose composition based on Caesar. German I: See page 25 for details. OR French I: See page 25 for details. Mathematics: Algebra, through Quadratic Equations. History: OutUnes of General History. Carpentry.

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24 AsheDille School . 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. German I (optional) : See page 25 for details. OR French I (optional) : See page 25 for details. Mathematics: Reviews of Elementary Algebra and Plane Geometry. History: Reviews of Greece and Rome. FIFTH FORM— Scientific. English: Reading and study of books required for preliminary examinations for entrance to college. Elements of Rheto- ric. Compositions, descriptive and argumentative. German II : See page 25 for details. OR French II : See page 25 for details. Mathematics: Solid Geometry. Plane and Spherical Trig- onometry. Reviews of Elementary Algebra and Plane Geometry. History: Reviews of England and United States. Physics: Including laboratory work. SIXTH FORM— Classical. English: Reading and study of books required for final exam- inations for entrance to college. Elements of Rhetoric. Compositions, prepared and extempore. Latin: Vergil ' s Aeneid, Bks. I-VI, and either the Eclogues or Bks. VII-IX of Aeneid. Prose composition, based on Caesar and Cicero. Translation of prose Latin at sight. 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 25 for details. OR French I or II: See page 25 for details. Mathematics: Advanced Algebra, completed.