HIGH SCHOOL.

COURSE OF STUDY.

GENERAL COURSE.

First, or Junior Year: Algebra; English Analysis; Physical Geography; Latin, or German and Latin; Drawing.

Second Year; Geometry; Natural Philosophy and Chemistry; Physiology (optional); Book-keeping (optional); Latin or German; Drawing (optional).

Third Year; Trigonometry or Natural Science; Universal History; Latin, or German, or French; Drawing (optional); Manual of Art (optional).

Fourth, or Senior Year: Analytical Geometry and Astronomy, or Review Mathematics, or Mental and Moral Philosophy; Shakespeare; Latin, or German, or French; English Literature; Constitution U. S. (one quarter); Drawing (optional).

Music and Rhetoricals throughout the course.

CLASSICAL COURSE.

This differs from the General Course only in the following particulars :

First, or Junior Year: Latin alone, instead of Latin and German.

Second Year; Greek instead of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, and Latin alone instead of Latin or German.

Third Year: Greek instead of Trigonometry or Natural Science, and Latin alone instead of Latin, or German, or French. Senior Year: Greek, Latin alone instead of Latin, or German, or French; and Review Mathematics instead of-Review Mathematics, or Analytical Geomotry, or Astronomy, or Mental and Moral Philosophy.

Pupils have the following choice of studies:

Junior Year: Between Latin alone, and Latin and German.

Second Year: Between Greek and Natural Science. In this year there are, as optional studies, Physiology, Book-keeping and Drawing.

Third Year: Between Latin or German and French, and between Trigonometry and Natural Science. The optional studies are, Manual of Art and Drawing.

Senior Year: Between Latin, or German, or French and Mental or Moral Philosophy. Between Review Mathematics and Analytical Geometry and Astronomy, or Mental and Moral Philosophy. Drawing is the optional study this year.

A choice of course when once made must be adhered to.

COURSE OF STUDY IN GERMAN.

EIGHTH GRADE.

GERMAN- AND ANGLO-AMERICAN CLASSES.

OBJECT-TEACHING (Auschauungs-Unterricht). One daily lesson. 1st quarter: School, house and home, human body (demonstrated on the real objects).

2d, 3d and 4th quarters: subjects presented by Struebing's pictures Nos. 1-6.

Neither books nor slates are used in this grade.

Each teacher is required to write out, for his own use, a plan for the division and treatment of the subject matter of each picture, adapted to the special condition of his pupils.

Bad pronunciation is to be corrected and distinct articulation to be insisted on from the very beginning.

All questions addressed to the pupils should be brief and clear, and the answers must be given in short but complete sentences.

Above all, the teacher will bear in mind that, on account of the short time allotted to German in our schools, language-the power of expression-is to be the principal object at which he has to aim, even when giving " object lessons.'

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Guide for the teacher: "Auschauungs-Denk-und SprechUebungen fuer Elementarklassen," by H. J. Bosshard.

SEVENTH GRADE.

GERMAN- AND ANGLO-AMERICAN CLASSES.

PHONETIC ANALYSIS (Lautiruebungen) and learning to write and read German Script (Schreib-Lese-Unterricht).

One daily lesson.

1st half-year: chiefly analysis of words; the sounds as well as the written forms of all the letters, (capital and small) are taught.

2nd half-year: analyzing, writing and reading of short

sentences.

The analytical exercises (Elementir-Uebungen) precede in all lessons the writing and reading of words and sentences, and the written exercise of each pupil is examined by the teacher.

Clear enunciation of every phonic element is insisted on throughout the entire work of this grade.

Every child must be provided with a good slate, a well sharpened slate-pencil, and a small ruler.

Writing is to begin only after the children have learned to rule their slates properly.

In this grade the pupils must necessarily occupy seats during the German lesson.

Guide for the teacher: "Der deutsche Sprachunterricht im ersten Schuljahr," by C. Kehr and H. Schlimbach, with G. Schlimbach's "Fibel."

SIXTH GRADE.

GERMAN- AND ANGLO-AMERICAN CLASSES.

LEARNING TO READ GERMAN PRINT from the Reading-Charts and
Lueken's Primer (Fibel.)

1st half-year pages 5 to 39 and review.
2d half-year: pages 39 to 77 and review.

One daily lesson.

A line or two must be copied daily on the slate, at home, and the verses of the primer are to be committed to memory.

Through the first two "Steps" (Stufen) of the Fibel, the reading-charts are to be used in class, to prepare the lessons, which the children are to review at home from their primers.

Up to this point also, the words are not to be spelled (buchstabirt), but only "sounded" (lautirt); yet the pupils are also to be taught the name of each letter as they learn its printed form.

For the purpose of aiding the teacher to establish with the beginners the habit of reading every syllable distinctly, the exercises in Lueken's primer are arranged in such order, that up