Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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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 appre¬ ciate 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 lan¬ guage and have such knowledge of syntax and sentence structure as can be acquired from Hyde’s Book II or its equivalent. All students are required to complete and pass a satisfactory 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 Fall Term will not be continued in the class during the Spring Term, but may take the class next below. Course I.—Grammar reviewed. Elements of Compo¬ sition, Part I. Canby and Opdycke. Classics for study in class or for parallel reading. The emphasis in this class will be given to inflections, sentence structure and analysis. The student will be graded strictly on spelling, capitalization and the punc¬ tuation of ordinary English prose. Course 2.—Canby and Opdycke’s Elements of Compo¬ sition, Part II. Several classics will be read. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3.—Canby and Opdycke’s Elements of Compo¬ sition, Part III. . Classics to be studied with care. 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 the present. Students will be prepared to comply with the en¬ trance requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges.

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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 11 quately furnished, large recitation rooms fitted with patent desks of the most approved pattern, and last, but not least, by his efforts as instruments in God’s hands, we are unpolluted by bar-rooms, gambling dens and other moral dangers of town and city life, which too often blight the lives of boys from Christian homes and blast the hopes of their dearest friends. We are nearly one- half mile from Lawndale; thus we have the advantage of the village with the perfect quiet of rural life so nec¬ essary 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. These churches are only a good walk from the school. All students are required to attend at least one of these churches and Sun¬ day 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 Principal and others, for the purpose of encouraging the students and inciting them to higher ideals and nobler efforts. Two prayer meetings are held each week by the stu¬ dents, 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 for holy things. The school is distinctly Christian, but is no t denomi¬ national.

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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 13 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. The second year’s work in this department will con¬ sist of a careful reading of Caesar, Books I and IV, and a review of Books II and III, with drill work in gram¬ mar. In the third year Six Orations of Cicero will be read and special attention will be given to Latin prose com¬ position. The fourth year will be devoted to the study of Virgil’s Aeneid. Six books will be read. Some original exercises will be given. While the primary object of this department is thor¬ ough 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 busi¬ ness calculations and in preparing them to be successful teachers of arithmetic in our public schools. The ele¬ ments of Algebra will be studied. In the second year Wentworth’s New School Algebra will be mastered and Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be begun. In the third year Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be completed. In the fourth year Wentworth’s Plane 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.