Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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I The Packer Collegiate Institute 55 cilines uf itunp, p 615132 languages. i ENGLISH.ik- The Institute puts the study of English before all else, believing that training in the mother tongue is better than any other educational influence. The English course of the Institute begins with the ele- mentary lessons of the Primary school, and is continued to the end of the Senior year. From the first it aims to stimulate originality, to develop the observation of the student, to help her in expressing her thoughts in fitting language, and to cultivate in her a taste for intelligent reading. I When a student is not pursuing any of the specialcourses in rhetoric and literature which are offered at the Institute, she is re- quired each year afterher entrance into the Preparatory Department to Write six essays, and to attend, Weekly, two lessons devoted to the principles and practiceof English composition and the appreciative reading of literature. ' 'iSpecia1 courses in grammar, rhetoric, and literature m-QV be noted OH schedules of studies, pages 45-54, 83, 88.

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gy The Pezeher Cellegiezle fmeilute lplwjml Afireheffzy-Todd. Lectures. lifyehelegy --James' Celezelm--Taylor. . i .Hiffery M .f4rt-- Painting- ' The Theery gf Marie-Harmony, counterpoint, form, and analysis. Hiftery fthe Bihle-Lectures once a Week. A Efzglifh Cempefitiefz--The essay as literature. Efzglifh Lifereizere-Spenser and Shakespeare. Fourth Term. A Greeh--Sophocles: Antigone. Letih-History of Latin Literature. ' Frefzeh-L'Empire. Litterature. Le Romantisme, Taine. Augier: Le Gendre de M. Poirier. Ros- tand: Cyrano de Bergerac. . Gerffzezfz-Modern drama. Readings from von Wil- denbruch and Sudermann. Phyfieez! Astronomy-Todd. Lectures. e Cezlezzlzzf--Taylor. Pfyehelegy - James. Hiftery ef Art--Painting. The Theory gf Marie-Harmonyf, counterpoint, form, and analysis. Hiftery fthe Bihle--Lectures once a Week. Efzglifh Literature-Tennyson and Browning. Special lllnntses uf Stung. The requirements set forth in the preceding pages are to be met by candidates for graduation at the Instituteg but students above the Third Academic grade who do not wish to earn the diploma have the privilege of selecting branches of study in the Collegiate of Academic department, and of' attending lectures. Such irregular courses of study are submitted to the Principal for his approval, and the students pursuing them are sub- ject to the same regulations as students of a regular course. I 1 .J -3.3345-,',1al ..., -,...4 :g....1..a.1L,J..kgLn.....u,.....nox,., .-.L . .. Y ,, ,,,,,,, ,.,, ,- ,.,N,.g,', 1. . . .-

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56 The Packer Collegiate Institute The library method with reference Work is used, and note-books and essays receive care- ful criticism in frequent personal interviews, ln the Third Academic grade, the rhetor- ical work consists of a study of the narrative, with special drill on sentence-structure and punctuation. A study of description and letter-Writing follows in the Second grade, with drill on diction and simple prosody. In the First Academic grade, a semester of work in elementary rhetoric, with emphasis upon the paragraph, is required. The lit- erature for the Third grade consists of se- lections from mediaeval material-Malory, Tennyson, St. Francis of Assisi, Scott, the ballads of the people-and also The Mer- ehaiit W' Venice. T ln the Second grade, the literature read illustrates both prose and poetry and presents the idea of historical change, it includes a play by Shakespeare, Comiis, selections from Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Pilgrim's Progress, The Sir Roger a'e Cofverley Papers, and A Tale qv Two Cities. The literature of the First grade is deter- mined largely by college requirements for general reading.