Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. Outline of Courses. Mathematics. Course 1.—Algebra, Milne’s Academic Algebra to Highest Common Divisior. Stress placen upon developing and fixing principles and processes. Insistance upon independence and accuracy in solving examples. Course 2. — Algebra, same text to Radicals. Follow suggestions given under Course 1 . Course 3.—Plane Geometry, Sanders’ Plane and Solid Geometry, Books 1 and 2, with at 50 per cent, of the original exercises, including a laboratory book of original demon¬ strations of 50 exercises each bearing a certificate to the effect that the one whose work it is, has neither received nor given help in said demonstration or construction. Course 4.—Plane Geometry, same text, Books 3, 4 and 5, with same requirements as Course 3, in originals and laboratory book. Course 5.—Algebra, Milne’s Academic. Review, Factoring and Fractions and Involution and Evolution. Radicals and Quadrates to Ratio and Proportion. Course 6 . — (a) Algebra (six weeks). Milne’s Academic, Ratio and Proportion, Varia¬ tions and Logarithms. tb) Solid Geometry (twelve weeks). Sanders’ Plane and Solid Geometry, books 6, 7, 8 and 9. Twenty-five per cent of the original exercises. •H istory. Course 1 .— Ancient Oriental Peoples and Greece. West’s Ancient World as a text. Note t oks on maps and outside readings. A definite amount of outside reading equivalent to amount given in text and more at discretion of teacher. Oral reports on outside readings, and debates on important questions. Course 2.—Rome. West’s Ancient World as a text. Notes, maps, outside readings, etc., s’inilar and equivalent to the requirements of Course 1. Course 3.—English History. Walker’s Essentials in Gnglish History as a text. Maps, notes, etc., on outside readings. Examination of original documents such as are contained Kendall’s Source Book of English History. The minimum number of pages for outside reading should be two hundred pages, exclusive of fiction and poems. Course 4.—American History. Hart’s Essential as a text. A brief review of the Periods : Exploration, Colonization and the Revolution. More intensive work on the Constitutional Period to the Civil War. Maps and notes on outside readings. Examination of original : euments such as are contained in the following copies which are in our High School li- rarv: Richardson’s Messages of the Presidents; Hart’s Source Book of American History; Hart’s American History as Told by Contemporaries; McDonald’s Original Documents. Reading of references given to such works as Schouler’s History of the U. S., Dewey’s Fi¬ nancial History of the U. S., Bryce’s American Commonwealth, Thwait’s “The Colonies,” Hart’s Formation of the Union, Woodrow Wilson’s Division and Reunion, Fisk’s Critical Period of American History, all of which with others equally valuable are contained in our High School library. Course 5.—American History and History of Illinois. American History (eight weeks). Same text as used in Course 4, beginning with the ivil War and coming down to -he present time. Supplementary work similar and pro- riionally equivalent to the requirements for Course 4. History of Illinois (ten weeks). Smith’s History of Illinois. A careful review of the -i-i-graphy of Illinois. Course 6.—Civics. James’ and Sanford’s Government in State and Nation, supplement- ri by Trowbridge’s Illinois and the Nation, and such other works as time and facilities permit.

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. Momence High School. Synopsis of Courses of Study. Latin and Latin-German Courses. Freshman Year. English. 1 and 2. History, 1 and 2. Mathematics, 1 and 2. Latin, 1 and 2. Sophomore Year. English, 3 and 4. Mathematics, 3 and 4, History, 3 and 4. Latin, 3 and 4. Junior Year, English, 5 and 6, Science, 5 and 6. History, 5 and 6 Latin, 5 and 6, or German 1 2, English-German Course. Freshman Year. English, 1 and 2. History, 1 and 2. Mathematics, 1 and 2. Science, 1 and 2 Sophomore Year. English, 3 and 4. Mathematics, 3 and 4. History 3 and 4. Commercial Branches, 3 and 4. Junior Year. English, 5 and 6. Science, 3 and 4. History, 5 and 6. German, 1 and 2. Three tjear Commercial Course. Freshman Year. English, 1 and 2. History, 1 and 2. Mathematics, 1 and 2. Commercial Branches, 1 and 2, Middee Year. English. 3 and 4, Mathematics, 3 and 4. History, 3 and 4. Commercial Branches, 3 and 4. Senior Year. English, 5 and 6. History, 5 and 6. German, 1 and 2 , Commercial Branches, 5 and 6. Senior Yeas. Science, 5 and 6, German, 3 and 4. Mathematics, 5 and 6 . English, 7 and 8 . Reviews, 1 and 2. NOTES: 1. An equivalent in Vocal Music or Drawing will be accepted in lieu of any two of the starred courses. 2. A course credit is 18 weeks work, five 40 minute recitations per week. 3. Thirty-two course credits will be required for graduation in all four year courses, and twemty-four course credits in the three year course. 4. To receive credit m a course an average of 75 per cent, is required. Said grade to be determined by dividing the class grade for the semester plus the semester examination grade by two, but no credit shall be given when the examination paper falls below 60 per cent. 5. A pupil who fails in a course, making an average of 65 per cent, or above, and not falling below 50 on the examination, may have the privilege of a special examination at the close of the next quarter of school. If his standing in this examination equals 75 per cent., he shall receive credit for the course. Otherwise he shall not receive credit without taking the course in class. 6. Four courses pursued at a time shall constitute full work, but pupils who carried full work the previous semester with an average grade of 85 per cent or above in each course, may be permitted to take an additional course. However, when he falls below 85 per cent, in any subject for a period of two weeks, he shall be required to drop the extra course. Exceptions to this rule shall be made only by the unanimous consent of the faculty or by a majority vote of the Board of Education. Senior Year. Science, 5 and 6, Latin, 5 and 6, or German, 3 4. Mathematics, 5 and 6 English, 7 and 8 or Reviews, 1 and 2 .

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. Oom mercia! Branches. Course 1.—Spelling. Five forty-minute periods a week for one semester. The Modern Business Speller will be used as a text. Course 2.—Penmanship. The Palmer Business System of Penmanship will be taught for one semester. The aim will be to develop a rapid, legible, easy hand-write. Course 3.—Commercial Geography. A suitable text book and laboratory manual will be used. Controlling Influences in the Commercial world will be a prominent feature of the course. One semester will be given to the subject. Course 4.—Commercial Arithmetic. The Modern Commercial Arithmetic will be used as a text, and particular stress will be placed upon the solution of practical problems. One semester is the time allotted to this subject. Course 5.—Book-keeping and Business Practice. Office Methods, Part 1, will be used tor one semester. This course will familiarize the pupils with the principles of debits and cred¬ its as used in the Journal method of double entry book-keeping and with commercial papers such as notes, checks, drafts, invoices, insurance policies, leases, etc. The commercial law points relating to each transaction will be studied. Course 6.— Book-keeping. Office Methods Part 2. In this course the pupil will become acquainted with the best up-to-date forms used in different classes of business. Each pupil will be required to keep a cash account of his earnings and expenditures from Jan. 1, to April 1, balancing the same once every two weeks. English. The aim of the English course is two-fold: todevelope in the pupil the power of accurate and pleaing expression of his thoughts and to give him an appreciation of the best literature. The course in composition is designed to accomplish the first aim; the critical reading of some of the classics, the careful reading of others together with with a study of the history of English Literature is intended to accomplish the second. The four years course is as follows: Course I. 1. Composition—Description and Narration; oral and written. Three short themes a week. Text, Scott and Denny’s Elementary Composition. 2. Classics—Julius Caesar, Shakespeare. 3. Outside Beading—As You Like It, or Twelfth Night and any three of the follows; Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pilgrim’s Progress, Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, Ir¬ ving’s Sketch Book, Buskin’s King of the Golden Biver. Beports written in Heyd- rick’s Beading Beports. Course II. 1. Composition—Narration and Exposition, oral and written. Two or three short themes a week. Text, Scott and Denny’s Elementary Composition. 2. Classics —Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott. 3. Outside Beading—Any four of the following: Vision of Sir Launfal, Lowell; Scottish Chiefs, Porter; Prue and I, Curtis; Quentin Durward, Scott; The Talisman, Scott; The Spy, Cooper; The Pilot, Cooper, Last of the Mohicans, Cooper; Kenilworth, Scott. Beports same as Course 1. Course III. 1. Composition. Two themes a week of from two to four pages. Text—Lockwood and Emerson’s Bhetoric. 2. Classics: Washington’s Farewell Address and Webster’s First Bunker Hill Oration. 3. Outside Beading—Any four of the following: The Winning of the West, Boosevelt; Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington; The Oregon Trail, Parkman; Tom Brown at Bugby, Hughes; Ben Hur, Lew Wallace; Sohrab and Bustum, Matthew Arnold.