Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 13 of the language and literary forms as illustrated by usage of the best writers of the past and the present. Students will be prepared to comply with the entrance require¬ ments of the Association of Colleges. Latin The first year in this course will consist of a thorough prepara¬ tion 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 lan¬ guage has been secured, the class will read the second and third Books of Caesar. 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. In the third 3 ear Six Orations of Cicero will be read and special attention will be given to Latin prose composition. 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 thorough prepa¬ ration 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 pub¬ lic schools. The elements 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 3 ear Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be com¬ pleted. In the fourth year Wentworth’s Plane Geometry will be com¬ pleted. The object of this course is not only to prepare for college but

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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 four 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 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 1. Ward’s Sentence and Theme studied. Elson’s Grammar School Reader, Book 4, which contains classic selec¬ tions from American and English authors will be read. 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 punctuation of ordinary English prose. Course 2. Briggs and McKinney’s Composition. Several classics are read. In this class the emphasis is given largely to theme work. Course 3. Lewis and Hosic’s Composition, Part 1, is studied. Several classics are studied. Course 4. Lewis and Hosic’s Composition, Part 2, is studied. Several classics are studied. Special attention will be given to the sources and development

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14 PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL 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. Myer’s An¬ cient History is the text used. In the second year, Mediaeval and Modern History is studied. Myer’s Mediaeval and Modern History is the text used. In the third year English History will be completed. In the fourth year, the History of the United States is studied. Ashley’s American History, a very comprehensive text, is used. Bible Systematic Bible study has been carried on at Piedmont for several years. The purpose of this study is to give to the stu¬ dents a first-hand knowledge of the things recorded in the Scrip¬ ture. 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 subject matter. The regular classes meet daily throughout the entire session. The work in Course I, Old Testament, is required of all graduates. Science The work done in science in the preparatory schools of the South is ordinarily more or less unsatisfactory for several reasons: Students usually try to complete their preparatory courses in the shortest possibl e time and the required work in the languages and mathematics crowd out other subjects; at the same time few, if any, schools possess the equipment requisite for obtaining good results in scientific studies. It is our purpose to make the most of our opportunities and to enlarge our facilities for better work from time to time.