Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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12 Piedmont High School COURSES OF STUDY 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 acquainted with the elementary forms of the language and have such knowledge of syntax and sentence structure as can be acquired from Hyde’s Book II or its equiv¬ alent. All students are required to complete and pass a satis¬ factory examination on the work of each course or its equiv¬ alent before entering upon that of the course next above. Stu¬ dents making a grade of less than 70 on the work of the Fall Term will not be continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course 1.—Grammar reviewed. Elementary Composition, Scott and Denny. Classics for study in class or for parallel reading: Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress; Franklin’s Auto¬ biography ; Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner; Eowell’s Vision of Sir Launfal; Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The emphasis in this class will be given to inflections, sen¬ tence structure and analysis. The student will be graded strictly on spelling, capitalization and the punctuation of ordinary English prose. Course 2.—Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition and Rhet¬ oric. The following classics will be read: The Old Testament (See Bible Course 1) ; Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; Tenny¬ son s Gareth and Lynette, Launcelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur; Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities; Eliot’s Silas Mar- ner, or Gaskell’s Cranford. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3. Brooks and Hubbard’s Composition and Rhet¬ oric, Part II; Lockwood’s Lessons in English. Classics to be

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Lawndai North Carolina ii the advantage of the village with the perfect quiet of rural life so necessary to sustained mental effort. Sunday Schools and Churches Two flourishing Sunday Schools are within easy reach of us. The Baptists have regular appointments for preaching at New Bethel and Lawndale. The Methodists hold regular services at the latter place. The Presbyterians also hold serv¬ ices at Lawndale, but at irregular intervals. These churches are only a good walk from the scho . All students are re¬ quired to attend at least one of these churches and Sunday Schools. Students are required to attend daily roll-call which consists of singing, reading the Scriptures, and of prayer. At these services occasional short talks will be made by the Prin¬ cipal and others, for 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 denominational.

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Lawndale:, North Carolina 13 studied with care: Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America or Washington’s Farewell Address and Webster’s First Bunker Hill Oration; Pope’s Translation of the Iliad; Carlyle’s Essay on Burns, with selections from Burns’s Poems. Special attention will be given to the sources and develop¬ ment 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 re¬ quirements of the Southern Association of Colleges. Latin The first year in this course will consist of a thorough prep¬ aration of the lessons in Collar and Daniel’s Beginner’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 years’ 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 HLieid, 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 business calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers of arithmetic in our public schools. The elements of Algebra will be studied.