Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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L 3B I be ttoneoK Bi modem short-story writers for more extensive study. This work is followed with a critical study of the forms of poetry, involving the study of such | oets as Coleridge. Arnold. Wordsworth. Tennyson. Chaucer. Milton and Shakespeare. In the fourth year, the study of Shakespeare is continued with Macbeth. Lear, and Hamlet. During this time, the work in comj osition is based upon exposition and argumentation. The purpose of the course is two-fold. The first aim is to giVe the pupil a practical working knowledge of the language to help him to master the essentials of English. To this end mss GKORO.R mitci.i'bson tho constructive work as far as j»os- sible is socialized. The second and perhaps more important aim is to foster an appreciation of the best things that have been written and through that appreciation, to stimulate a taste for good books. 10 ]

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 3@ ibe boneeK BC The Department of English is one of the strongest and best organized in the school. The study of English is required of all pupils during the entire four years. The course follows in a general way the entrance requirements, with closely articulated studies from the required texts in rhetoric and history of literature. The work is very carefully graded. During the first year, the authors studied are Irving. Bryant. Warner. Hawthorne. Lowell and Holmes, with a background of American life and letters. The special forms in constructive work are the sentence and the paragraph. The second year’s work opens the study of English literature. During this year the attention is directed to work in narration and description, with special stress on the rise and the growth of the novel. Eliot, Scott and Dickens being used for intensive study, and .:z3 l

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MISS ABIIY MAUItl.K » 3B I be ttereee? i[ For graduation from our high school two years of language are required. Either Latin or German may be elected for these credits. The Latin department offers three years of Latin, however. In the first year Dooge’s Latin for Beginners is the text used. In the second year Walker's Caesar is studied and in the third year. .Johnston and Kingerry’s Cicero. For the composition work the texts are Bennett’s Prose and Bennett’s Latin Grammar. MISS KI.OISK MII.I.IS [±iBryj j i 11