Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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14 Piedmont High School 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’ Poems; selections from Palgrave’s Golden Treasury. 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 Eatin 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 sec ond and third books of Csesar. 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 Eneid, a review of prose composition, varied with original exercises. While the primary object of this department is thorough preparation of pupils for entrance to the classical colleges, much stress will be laid on the relation of the Eatin 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. In the second year Wentworth’s New School Algebra will

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Lawndale, North Carolina 13 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 equiva¬ lent 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. Elements of Composition, Part I. Canby and Opdycke. Classics for study in class or for parallel reading: Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress; Franklin’s Autobiography; Irving’s Sketch Book; Shakespeare’s Mer¬ chant 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.—Canby and Opdycke’s Elements of Composition, Part II. The following classics will be read. The Old Testa¬ ment (See Bible Course I); Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; Tennyson’s Gareth and Lynette, Launcelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur; Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities; Eliot’s Silas Marner, or Gaskell’s Cranford; Tom Brown’s School Days. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3.—Canby and Opdycke’s Elements of Composition, Part III. Classics to be studied with care: Shakespeare’s

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Lawndale, North Carolina 15 be mastered and Wentworth’s College Algebra and Went¬ worth’s Geometry will be begum 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 Scripture. 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. i Course 1.—The historical parts of the Old Testament are studied in chronological order with incidental references to th? Psalms and Prophets. bourse 2.—A systematic study of the historical parts of the New Testament with incidental references to the Epistles is offered to such as desire to do special work in the Bible, and