522152 32215 FIRST TERM SECOND TERM 1 Mathematics-High School Algebra... 5 1 Mathematics-High School Algebra.. 2 English - (a) Rhetoric.. (b) Literature. (c) Composition.. 3 Latin-Cæsar.. 522153 22215 2 English 4 Science (a) Rhetoric.. (c) Composition. 3 Latin-Cæsar. Economics. COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE FIRST CLASS. Commercial Course. FIRST TERM FIRST YEAR. SECOND TERM 1 Mathematics-Commercial Arithmetic 5 1 Mathematics-Commercial Arithmetic.. 5 52215522-5 NOTES ON COURSES OF STUDY AND GRADUATION. The English courses are intended for pupils who do not expect to enter college at any time or those who expect to take in college a course that does not require a foreign language. The Latin course should be taken by pupils who expect to take a college course requiring foreign languages. Each pupil is expected to take the regular subjects and the exercises, and to have as many forty-minute recitations a week as are indicated by the number opposite each branch of study, except Spelling which may not require forty minutes a day. It is not intended that a separate book on composition be studied, but that a written composition be required each Friday and that the composition and teachers' criticism be such as to test the work in Grammar, Rhetoric or Literature studied during the week. The first year's work in Latin should include the thorough study of a standard beginner's book. In the second year four books of Cæsar; the third, six orations of Cicero; and the fourth, six books of Virgil. The Grammar and Composition should be followed through the entire course as carefully as time permits. If possible a special teacher should be employed to teach Drawing, Vocal music and Writing, all of which have their credits, when properly taught. As much as possible, Agriculture and Home Economics should be taught from the standpoint of practical life in the home and on the farm, standard texts are to be used. The work in Arithmetic intended is a thorough review of common and decimal fractions and percentage, in all its applications, based upon a standard High School text book. In the Foreign Language course no school is expected to teach more than one other foreign language besides Latin, which must be Greek, German, French or Spanish. This selection is made by the Principal and Board of Education and the pupil may not elect any other than the one thus adopted. The Commercial course includes all the standard branches needed to prepare one for his commercial duties. No pupil should be permitted to take bookkeeping, stenography or typewriting without taking the other branches of the course at the same time. All four-year courses are so planned as to make the required number of units for college entrance, a unit being equivalent to the work of a year of not less than thirty-two weeks, five forty minute periods a week, in each branch of study. Pupils completing the course of study for third class high schools will be given a certificate, signed by the President and Secretary of the High School Board and the Principal of the School, showing that the required work has been done. Diplomas signed by the State Superintendent, the High School Inspector, the Chairman and Secretary of the High School Board and the Principal of the School, and containing an impression of the seal of the State will be given pupils who complete the course of study prescribed for High Schools of the first and second classes. No pupil should be allowed to graduate, or receive a diploma, who has not thoroughly mastered the course of study taken. Principals of High Schools are especially requested to see that every one who receives a diploma is fully entitled to it. A high standard of work must be maintained. All superintendents and principals should make their reports promptly, and all reports should be mathematically accurate. DISTRIBUTION OF THE HIGH SCHOOL FUNDS FOR |