Bedford High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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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

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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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IB I be Honeer- BI ] MISS BEItTIIA MONTGOMERY Our high school curriculum offers three years of German, although only two years are required for graduation. The text books used in the first year are Vos' Essentials of German and Gluck Auf. Immensee and der Letete are used in the second and Die Jungfrau and Wilhelm Tell in thethird. Nearly everything read in class is translated into English. The German conversation is based upon the texts used. Composition work begins with the second year and continues until the end of the third year. ] 12 3