Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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12 Piedmont High School 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 busi¬ ness calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers of arithmetic in our public schools. The elements of Algebra will be studied. In the second year Wentworth’s New School Algebra will be completed and Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be begun. In the third year Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be mastered and Wentworth’s College Algebra and Went¬ worth’s Geometry will be begun. In the fourth year Wentworth’s Plane and Solid Geom¬ etry will be completed. 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. 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. In the fourth year the History of North Carolina will be studied with care.

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Lawndale, North Carolina ii Macaulay: Life of Johnson; Milton: L’Allegro, II Pense- roso, and Comus; Tennyson: Gareth and Lynette, Lance¬ lot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3 .—Lockwood and Emerson’s Rhetoric. Classics to be studied with care :—Shakespeare : Macbeth; Burke : Speech on Conciliation with America; Pope: Translation of the Iliad; Scott: Ivanhoe. Special attention will be given to the sources and devel¬ opment of the language and literary forms as illustrated by usage of the best writers of the past and present. Students will be prepared to comply with the entrance requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges. 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 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 con¬ sist of a careful reading of Caesar, Books I and IV, and a review of Books II and III, with drill work in grammar. The third year’s work will consist of a study of six of Cicero’s Orations, six books of Virgil’s iEned, a review of prose composition, varied with original exer¬ cises. While the primary object of this department is the thorough preparation of pupils for entrance to the clas¬ sical colleges, much stress will be laid on the relation of the Latin language to our mother tongue.

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