Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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Lawndale, North Carolina ii Standish; Whittier: Snowbound; Coleridge: Ancient Mariner; Lowell: Vision of Sir Launfal; Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. The emphasis in this class will be given to inflections, sentence structure and analysis. The student will be graded strictly on spelling, capitalizing and the punctua¬ tion of ordinary English prose. Course 2.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition-Rhe¬ toric. The following classics will be read:—The Old Testament (See Bible Course 1); Shakespeare: Julius Caesar; Tennyson: Gareth and Lynette, Launcelot 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-Rhe¬ toric Part II, Lockwood’s Lessons in English. Classics to be studied with care:—Shakespeare: Macbeth; Burke: Speech on Conciliation with America; Pope: Translation of the Iliad; Milton: L’Allegro, II Penseroso, Comus; Macaulay: Life of Johnson. Special attention will be given to the sources and de¬ velopment of the language and literary forms as illus¬ trated 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.

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IO Piedmont High School the purpose of encouraging the students and inciting them to higher ideals and nobler efforts. A well organized Young Men’s Christian Association is well attended. Two prayer meetings are held each week by the students, one by the girls and the other by the boys. These services are voluntary, and while no one is forced to go, they are largely attended and a spirit of devotion is shown that is pleasant to witness. Cant is discouraged; but it has been the constant effort of the management of Piedmont High School to inculcate a spirit of reverence for God and veneration for holy things. The school is distinctly Christian, but it is not denomina¬ tional. English The object sought in this department is to give the student a thorough acquaintance with the language and with the best models of the literature, that he may know how to understand and use the one and appreciate and interpret the other. The subject will be studied in three courses. To enter Course I the student should be ac¬ quainted with the elementary forms of the language and have such knowledge of syntax and sentence structure as can be acquired from Hyde’s Book I or its equivalent. All students are required to complete and pass a satisfac¬ tory examination on the work of each course or its equivalent before entering upon that of the course next above. Students making a grade of less than 70 on the work of the Pall Term will not be continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course 1.—Grammar reviewed. Elementary Compo¬ sition :—Scott and Denney. Classics for study on class or for parallel reading:—Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress; Irving: Sketch Book; Longfellow: Courtship of Miles

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12 Piedmont High School 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 Huieid, a re¬ view of prose composition, varied with original exercises. While the primary object of this department is the thorough preparation of pupils for entrance to the class¬ ical 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 busi¬ ness calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers in 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 Geo¬ metry 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.