Piedmont High School - Summit Yearbook (Lawndale, NC)

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FISHING AT OLD MILL—PIEDMONT IN BACKGROUND

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SHOWING ELEVATION OF PIEDMONT

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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 a Beginner’s Latin Book and a special drill on the paradigms and vocabulary. When a good working knowl¬ edge of the elementary principles of the language has been se¬ cured, 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 year 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 Well’s Hart’s New School Algebra will be mastered and Wentworth’s Complete Algebra will be begun. In the third year High School Algebra will be completed. In the fourth year Wentworth-Smith’s Plane Geometry will be completed. The object of this course is not only to prepare for college but