Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. the elementary principles of the language has been secured the class will read the second and third books of Caesar. The second year’s work in this department will consist of a careful reading of Caesar, Books I and IV, and a review of Books II and III, with drill work in grammar and composition. The third year’s work will consist of a study of Cicero’s Orations against C ' ataline, five books of Vir¬ gil’s . Eneid, a review of prose composition, varied with original exercises. While the primary object of this department is the thorough preparation of pupils for entrance to the classical colleges, much stress will be laid on the relation of the Latin language to our mother tongue. MATHEMATICS The work in the college preparatory course for the first year will consist of a careful study of Arithmetic, with the view of making the students proficient in bus¬ iness calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers of arithmetic in our public schools. The ele¬ ments of Algebra will be studied. In the second year Wentworth’s New School Alge¬ bra will be completed and Wen tworth’s Complete Algebra will be begun. In the third year Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be mastered and Wentworth’s College Algebra and Wentworth’s Geometry will be begun. The object of this course is not only to prepare for college but to strengthen and develop the reasoning power of those who may never have the privilege of a college education. nine t

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. . ENGLISH The various colleges of our country claim that but few pupils are thoroughly prepared to enter the regular college classes in English, and hence they have inaugu¬ rated what they call sub-junior -classes, or, in plainer terms, they are forced to do preparatory work in Eng¬ lish, which should be done in the preparatory schools. This is not as it should be; our mother tongue should not be neglected, and while it is our purpose to prepare our students thoroughly in Latin, Mathematics, History, Political Science, etc., much time will be devoted to train¬ ing the pupils in the elementary principles of composi¬ tion, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing and grammar. An effort will be made to inculcate in our students a taste for good literature. In the higher classes the following books will be read and studied: The Sir Roger deCoverly Papers, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Scott’s Ivanhoe, Irving’s Sketch Book, Longfellow’s Evange¬ line, Matthew Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustrum, Tennyson’s Princess, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Haw¬ thorne’s House of the Seven Gables, and others as they are suggested by our needs. The books prescribed for entrance by the Southern Association of Colleges will be studied each year. LATIN The first year in this course will consist of a thorough preparation of the lessons in Collar and Daniel’s Begin¬ ner’s Latin Book and a special drill on the paradigms and vocabulary. When a good working knowledge of eight

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Piedmont High School Lawndale, N. C. HISTORY This course is broad and comprehensive. It is intended to be much fuller than merely to prepare for college. In the first year Ancient History will be studied and Mediaeval and Modern History will be begun. In the second year Mediaeval and Modern History will be completed and English History will be begun. In the third year English History will be completed and the History of the United States will be carefully studied. Our object is not to make the pupil simply a reposi¬ tory of dates and disconnected facts, but to give him a correct idea of the underlying principles of history in their natural order. THE BIBLE A course is given in the Bible and Old Testament History which is equal to the first year’s course ofifered by most of the colleges. In this course the Bible is studied from a historical standpoint. The course is ben¬ eficial to all advanced students who take it, but is espe¬ cially useful to young ministers and to those who intend to enter the ministry. MUSIC The Music Department will be in charge of one who is thoroughly proficient in this branch, and no pains will be spared to make this part of the work equal to any other department of the School. ten