Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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12 Piedmont High School LATIN The first year in this course will consist of a thorough preparation of the lessons in Collar and Daniel’s Beginner’s Latin Book and a special drill on the paradigms and vocabulary. When a good work¬ ing 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 consist 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 Ailneid, a review of prose composition, varied with original exercises. While the primary object of this department is th e 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 Arith¬ metic with the view of making the students pro¬ ficient in business 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 Com¬ plete Algebra will be begun. In the third year Wentworth’s Complete Alge¬ bra will be mastered and Wentworth’s College Alge¬ bra and Wentworth’s Geometry will be begun.

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Lawndale, North Carolina 11 continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course 1.—Grammar reviewed. Elementary Com¬ position:—Scott and Denney. Classics for study on class or for parallel reading:—Bunyan: Pilgrim ' s Progress; Irving: Sketch Book; Longfellow: Court¬ ship of Miles Standish; Whittier: Snowbound; Cole¬ ridge: Ancient Mariner; Lowell: Vision of Sir Laun- fal; Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. The emphasis in this class will be given to in¬ flections, sentence structure and analysis. The stu¬ dent will be strictly graded on spelling, capitalizing and the punctuatiomof ordinary English prose. Course 2.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition- Rhetoric. The following classics will be read: The Old Testament (See Bible Course 1). Shakespeare: Julius Caesar; Tennyson: Gareth and Lynette, Laun- celot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur: Dickens: Tale of Two Cities; Eliot: Silas Marner or Gaskell: Cranford. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition- Rhetoric Part II, Lockwood’s Lessons in English. Classics to be studied with care:—Shakespeare: Macbeth; Burke: Speech on Conciliation with Amer¬ ica; Pope: Translation of the Iliad; Milton: L’Alle- gro, II Penseroso, Comus; Macaulay: Life of Johnson. Special attention will be given to the sources and development 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.

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