Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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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.

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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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14 Piedmont High School 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 Wentworth’s Geometry will be begun. In the fourth year Wentworth’s Plane and Solid Geometry 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 Medi¬ aeval 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. Bible Systematic Bible study has been carried on at Piedmont for several years. The purpose of this study is to give to the student a first-hand knowledge of the things recorded in the Scriptures. The method used is an actual study of the Book itself; not facts about the Bible but facts from the Bible; not a system of interpretation but a regular, definite study of sub¬ ject-matter. The regular classes meet daily throughout the entire session. The work in Course I, Old Testament, is re¬ quired of all graduates, and during the years 1912-191 will form a part of the regular college entrance requirements in English Literature.