Minnehaha Academy - Antler Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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CATALOG, MINNEHAHA ACADEMY Explanation of Courses BIBLE In all the classes the Bible itself is the textbook. The passages to be studied and a few suggestive questions are posted on the bulletin board and thus secured by the members of the class. These classes meet twice a week. One fourth of a credit is given for each year’s work. Bible study is required of each student as long as he is in school but the completion of the four year course is not required. First Year The first year is devoted to a study of the life of Christ. The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are studied simultaneously. Second Year In the second year the student takes up early Old Testament History. The books from Genesis to Samuel are studied. Third Year The third year is devoted to the remaining books of the Old Testament. The course includes a study of the Hebrew kingdom, the captivity and return, and the prophets. Fourth Year The fourth year is given to the rise and development of the early Christian church, as recorded in the New Testament. The Acts and the subsequent books of the New Testament are studied. ENGLISH First Year Review of grammar. Written composition, with emphasis on correct spelling, punctuation and good English usage. Sentence and paragraph structure. The purpose of this course is to develop in the students a sense of neatness and exactness in writing, and a natural feeling for fitness and correctness in sentence and theme building. Second Year Poetry and verse forms. Letter writing. Exposition: essays and speeches from the classics chosen for study. Written and oral composition. High school journalism. Third Year Argumentation. Study of classics argumentative in form. Study of the drama. Brief survey of the history of American literature. Fourth Year A survey of English literature and a study of prose and poetry of the foremost authors. Composition. Xote—Throughout the four years’ course, the classics read are chosen in accordance with the recommendations of the National Conference of College Entrance Requirements in English. Outside reading and written reports are required at regular intervals during the entire course. Textbooks: Ward’s Sentence and Theme; Ward’s Theme Building; Greever-Jones, Handbook of Writing; Lyons, Elements of Debating; Pace, American Literature with Readings; Long’s History of English Literature; New-comer-Andrews' Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose. 25

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CATALOG, MINNEHAHA ACADEMY LATIN First Year Smith’s Latin Lessons. Special emphasis on forms and vocabularies. Daily written exercises. The main rules of syntax. Second Year Caesar's Gallic War. Bks. I-IV. Grammar and prose composition; drills in parsing, forms, sight reading, etc. D’Ooge’s Prose Composition used. Third Year Cicero: Manilian Law. Four orations against Catiline. Oration for Marcellus or Archias. Grammar and prose composition. D’Ooge’s Prose Composition used. Fourth Year Virgil’s Eneid. Bks. I-VI. Elements of prosody. Metrical reading, mythology, and sight reading. Grammar and prose composition. Memorizing of short passages. SWEDISH First Year Vickner’s Grammar, (Completed). Selections and exercises in .... conversation. Memorizing of poems and brief passages. Texts —Geijerstam, Mina pojkar; La-gerlof, Valda Berattelser, and Nils Holgersson I. Supplementary readings. Second. Year Sunden’s Grammar completed (Abridged edition). Special emphasis laid on idiomatic expressions. A brief survey of Northern Mythology. Texts—Lagerlof, Nils Holgersson, and En Herreg rds-sagen; TegnSr, Fritiofs Saga. Memorizing of parts of Fritiofs Saga. Short compositions. Supplementary reading: Starback, Livknektens Berattelser. Third Year Grimberg, Sveriges Historia, I-V. Runeberg, Fanrik St ls Sagner. Themes. Supplementary reading. Fourth Year A more thorough study of the history of Swedish literature. Readings. Selections from Rydberg, Strindberg, Heidenstam and other authors. Themes. Supplementary reading—various selections. FRENCH First Year The following textbooks or their equivalent are used: Brooks’The New Chardenal; Aldrich and Foster, French Reader; L’AbbS Constantin. Second Year Intermediate French: Composition. Koren: French Composi- tion. Chosen texts: de la BrSte, Mon Oncle et Mon Cur6; Daudet, Contes; Loti, Le Roman d’un Enfant; Labiche, Le Voyage de M. Perrichon; Maupassant, Contes; or the equivalent of these. Third Year 1. A survey of French Literature. A text in French (Doumic, His-toire de la LittSrture francaise). The course will begin at the Seventeenth century. Chosen texts: Corneille, Le Cid; Racine, Andro-maque; MoliSre, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Beaurmarchais, Le barier de Seville; Victor Hugo, Hernani. Three hours a week. 2. Composition and conversation. Text: Francois, Advanced Composition; or equivalent. Two hours per week. Fourth Year 1. Nineteenth century literature. Text (French) Pellissier. Texts: Atala, Chateaubriand; French Lyrics Nineteenth Century; le Cur6 de Tours or Eugenie Gran-det. (Balzac); Le Gendre de M. 26