Marissa High School - Yearbook (Marissa, IL)

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of national, state and municipal government. Attention will be given to the duty of the citizen in this political organization. This course is preparatory to American History. Notebooks with supplementary work will be kept and histor- ical references relating to governmental affairs will be written in these. Current events will be reported on and important happen- ings relating to our country studied. The Civics of Illinois will be reviewed also in this term's work. Commercial Geography. Second semester of first year. Text: Gannett, Garrison and Houston. T This course follows the high school physiograhy and is intended to follow up the physical setting there given, with a care- ful discussion of human industries, thus giving the pupils a more extended .outlook of the relation between their physical environ- ment and man's industries. A general knowledge of common school geography and physical geography is presupposed. This text work is supplemented by note book work in which interesting and important facts about commercial products and countries are recorded. Samples of wheat, corn and its products, silk, hemp, cocoa and petroleum are studied. ENGLISH. The ability to use and fully understand them' English language is the prime requisite in the education of any American boy or girl. ' The aim of a high school course in English should be to build upon the pupil's training in reading, writing, spelling, com- position and grammar, which he has received in the grades, a course in composition, rhetoric and literature. A thorough review in grammar will be taken in the first year's work. . I 5

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During the first semester the first two books of the text are completed, and the text is finished during the second half of the year. In geometry, the process of reasoning is emphasized. The demonstration is made not so much for the HQ. E. D. as for exercise of imagination, individual thinking, for discipline in ana-lysis, and formal statements of steps by which the conclusions are reached. If time permits and there is a demand a class in solid geom- etry will be organized. This will be elective, but the work in plane geometry is required of all students for graduation. Physical Science. Fourth year. Text: Hoadley's Elements of Physics. In order to enter this class the pupil must have completed the work offered in mathematics during the first three years or be eligible to the senior class as to the required number of credits. This class meets every school day for two periods per day. The fundamental principles of Physics are demonstrated both by class and by individual experiments. Students construct a number of pieces of apparatus with which they perform experiments. Much emphasis is put on mathematical demonstrations and problems. The class covers the entire subject so as to do the Work required for entrance at the State University. V The laboratory will be well equipped with apparatus for next year. g Civics. First semester of third year. Text: Advanced Civics, by Forman. The work. is offered early in the course so as to give those who do not complete the course a general knowledge of the organization 14

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h First Year. During the first semester three days of each week will be spent in the study of Buehler's Modern Grammar, the greater part of the time being placed on syntax. Scott and Denney's Elementary Composition will be studied two days each week during the entire year. ln the second semester the study of classics will be taken up with careful perusal and discussion of these, also the authors' biographies. The following classics will be studied: Vision of Sir Launfal, The Ancient Mariner, Sohrab and Rusturn, Merchant of Venice, Snowbound and Irving's Sketch Book. The class will be required to read three books outside of the class and report on these. A list will be furnished by the teacher, any three of which may be chosen. Second Year. The study of English Composition will be continued during the first semester of the second year. The following classics will be read in class: Julius Caesar, Ivanhoe, Idylls of the King, Pope's Iliad, Vicar of Wakefield and Silas Marner. Six book reviews must be given either in written form or orally, according to the dictation of the teacher. Vocal Expres- sion will be studied one day each week. This includes memory work from classics, principles of elocution, oral reading, impromptu speeches, debating and some oratorical work. This work has become very instructive and beneficial to the members of the Sophomore Class and the results of this training have been very apparent in the Work of the literary society. Third Year. Composition and Rhetoric as presented in Brooks and Hub- bard text. ' Cab Review of grammatical principles. tbl Writing of themes. 16