Course of Study of the Oakland High School
Part 4
Homer’s Iliad. Bks. I-III. Goodwin’s Grammar. Composition. Collar & Daniell.
Second Term.
Homer’s Iliad. Bks. IV-VI. Goodwin’s Grammar. Beginner’s Greek Composition. Collar & Daniell.
LATIN.
NINTH YEAR.
First Term.
=D’Ooge’s Latin for Beginners.= Lessons I-XLV. Gradatim for sight reading.
Second Term.
=D’Ooge’s Latin for Beginners.= Lessons XLVI-LXXVIII. Book completed. Gradatim for sight reading.
TENTH YEAR.
First Term.
=Second Year Latin. Greenough, D’Ooge and Daniell.=
=Part One.= 75 pages of stories, fables, mythology, biography, including Life of Caesar. Composition based on the above.
=Grammar.= Allen & Greenough.
Second Term.
=Second Year Latin. Greenough, D’Ooge and Daniell.=
=Part Two.= 100 pages from “=Caesar’s Gallic Wars=.” Bks. I-VII.
D’Ooge’s Composition to accompany “Second Year Latin.” =Grammar.= Allen & Greenough.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
First Term.
=Cicero.= Any Standard Edition.
The Conspiracy of Catiline. Four orations for translation and study.
=D’Ooge’s Composition.= Based on above orations. =Grammar.= Allen & Greenough.
Second Term.
=Cicero= (continued).
Pompey’s Military Command, The Citizenship of Archias (for translation and study).
=D’Ooge’s Composition.= Based on the above oration. =Grammar.= Allen & Greenough.
TWELFTH YEAR.
First Term.
=Virgil.= Any Standard Edition.
Bks. 1–111. For translation and scansion. The Principles of Prosody—A study of figures of speech, grammatical and rhetorical.
=D’Ooge’s Latin Composition=, “Senior Review.” Exercises 1–16. =Grammar.= Allen & Greenough.
Second Term.
=Virgil= (continued).
Bks. IV-VI for translation and scansion. Method of preceding term continued.
=D’Ooge’s Latin Composition.= “Senior Review.” Exercises 17–34. =Grammar.= Allen & Greenough.
GERMAN.
NINTH YEAR.
First Term.
Spanhoofd—Lehrbuch der deutschen Sprache. Lessons 1–13. Spanhoofd—Erstes Lesebuch. Copy Book—Deutsches Schönschreiben, No. 4.
Second Term.
Spanhoofd—Lehrbuch. Lessons 14–19. Bacon—Im Vaterland, about fifty pages. Moni der Geissub, or Rosenresli.
TENTH YEAR.
First Term.
Spanhoofd—Lehrbuch. Lessons 20–29. Bacon—Im Vaterland, pp. 50–157. Two or more of the following:
Höher als die Kirche. Germelshausen. Immensee. Der Geissbub von Engelberg. Irrfahrten.
Second Term.
Spanhoofd—Lehrbuch. Lessons 30–35, subjunctive. Wesselhoeft—German Composition, pp. 1–40. Three or more of the following:
Der Schwiegersohn. Anfang und Ende. Der Bibliothekar. Der Prozess. Das Spielmannskind.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
Der stumme Ratsherr (in same volume with Das Spielmannskind). Riehl. Auf der Sonnenseite. Bernhardt. Bilderbuch ohne Bilder. Anderson. Wilhelm Tell. Schiller. Aus dem deutschen Dichterwald. Dillard. L’Arrabbiata. Heyse. Burg Neideck. Riehl. Lichenstein. Hauff. Der arme Spielmann. Grillparzer. Peter Schlemihl. Chamisso. Maria Stuart. Schiller. Hermann und Dorothea. Goethe. Elements of German. Bierwirth. German Composition. Pope. Träumereien. Leander.
TWELFTH YEAR.
Elements of German. Bierwirth. German Composition. Pope. Soll und Haben. Freytag. Das Nest der Zaunkönige. Freytag. Die Schriften des Waldschulmeisters. Rosegger. Er soll dein Herr sein. Heyse. Die Blinden. Heyse. St. Jurgen. Storm. Brigetta. Auerbach. Heimatklang. Werner. Der Neffe als Onkel. Schiller. Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Schiller. Die Journalisten. Freytag. Sesenheim. Goethe. Die verlorene Handschrift. Freytag.
Supplementary List. Not to be purchased by pupils.
Easy German Stories. Ries. Neue Marchen. Mullar. Gluck Auf. Muller & Wenckebach. Das Murchen. Goethe. Der Geissbub von Engelberg. Lohmeyer. Geschichten von Rhein. Stern. Geschichten von den deutschen Städten. Stern. Minna von Barnhelm. Lessing. Nathan der Weise. Lessing. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts. Eichendorff. Leberecht Hühnchen. Seidel. Abenteuer der Neujahrsnacht. Zschokke. Das Wirtshaus zu Kransac. Zschokke. Unter Brudern. Heyse. Two German Tales. Nichols. Teya. Sudermann. Sommermarchen. Baumbach. Gravelotte. Frenssen. Tales. Hauff. Four German Comedies. Das Amulett. Meyer. Aprilwetter. Arnold. Die Harzreise. Heine. Das Habichtsfraulein. Baumbach. Ultimo. Moser. Fritz auf Ferien. Arnold. Der Assistent. Schanz. German Conversation. Wesselhoeft. Der Taucher. Schiller. Die beiden Freunde. Moltke. Stille Wasser. Bernhardt. Emilia Galotti. Lessing. Pole Poppenspaler. Storm. Kleider machen Leute. Keller. Zwischen den Schlachten. Elster. Aus dem Leben eines Unglücklichen. Hansjakob. Die Ahnen, Part I. Freytag. Ein Regentag auf dem Lande. Arnold. Krambambuli. Elmer-Eschenbach. Legenden. Keller. Die Steinklopfer. Saar. Ernstes und Heiteres. Schrakamp.
FRENCH.
NINTH YEAR.
First Term.
French Grammar. Fraser & Squair. Lessons I-XX. French Reader. Aldrich & Foster.
Second Term.
French Grammar. Fraser & Squair. Lessons XXI-XXX. French Reader. Aldrich & Foster.
TENTH YEAR.
First Term.
French Grammar. Fraser & Squair. Lessons XXXI-XL, and pp. 337–347. Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, or equivalent from list. Tartarin de Tarascon.
Second Term.
French Grammar. Fraser & Squair. Colomba. Two hundred pages of sight reading from supplementary list. Elementary French Composition. Lazare.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
Grammar. Fraser & Squair. Extracts for French Composition. Mansion. Une Semaine A Paris. Bacon. Douze Contes Nouveaux. Le Petit Chose. Le Malade Imaginaire. Moliere. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Les Miserables. Hugo.
TWELFTH YEAR.
Grammar. Fraser & Squair. Extracts for French Composition. Mansion. Une Semaine A Paris. Bacon. Contes des Romanciers Naturalistes. Le Monde ou L’on s’Ennuie. Pailleron. Les Precieuses Ridicules. Moliere. Souvenirs d’Enfance et de Jeunesse.
Supplementary French Books. (Not to be purchased by pupils.)
Le Conscrit de 1813. Erckmann-Chatrian. Notre Dame De Paris. Hugo. L’Abbe Daniel. Theuriet. L’Abbe Constantin. Halevy. L’Avare. Moliere. French Short Stories. Buffum. Bataille de Dames. Scribe & Legouve. Le Roi des Montagnes. About. La Tulipe Noire. Dumas. Les Trois Mousquetaires. Dumas. La Mare au Diable. Sand. L’Etre de la Saint Martin. Meilhac & Halevy. Labiche’s La Lettre Chargee. Vent d’Ouest. d’Hervilly. Les Prisonniers du Caucase. De Maistre. Les Plus Jolis Contes de Fees. Lazare. Morceaux Choisis. Daudet. Selections from Standard French Authors. Guerlac. L’Etincelle. Pailleron. Eugenie Grandet. Balzac. Cure de Tours. Balzac. Ma Soeur Henriette. Renan. Dosia. Greville. Madame Therese. Erckmann-Chatrian. Contes Extraits de Myrrhae. Lamaitre. Siege de Paris. Sarcey. Gil Blas. Le Sage.
MUSIC.
Course I.
Elementary Choral. Sight-singing, notation, musical dictation, voice training and part singing. Voices will be tested and classified at the beginning of each term. One credit for graduation, but no recommendation to the university.
Course II.
Advanced Choral and Musical Appreciation. Open to all students who have completed course I or its equivalent. University credit.
Musical dictation, study of standard choruses, biography of great musicians. This course will be illustrated by the Victor and player-piano and frequent recitals by available musicians and music students.
Course III.
Harmony. Students electing the course must have completed Course I or II, or be reasonably proficient in performance upon some solo instrument. University credit.
Notation. Formation of diatonic and chromatic scales in major and minor modes; consonant and dissonant intervals and their inversions; triads and their inversions in major and minor modes; a study of chord connection and voice leading over a given bass; chords of the Dominant Seventh and their inversions and resolution; harmonizing of simple melodies; treatment and progressions of Secondary Sub-dominant chords; modulation and transposition; suspensions, retardations and embellishments; chords of the Dominant Ninth and secondary chords of the Seventh from the Dominant Ninth.
Course IV.
History of Music. University credit.
An outline of the development of the art of music, including ancient music; Greek scales; church music from the time of Gregory; the Netherland School of Polyphony; opera and oratorio; the classical period; the Romantic Movement; music of the present day; biographies of the leading musicians of each period. Text—Outline of Music History—Hamilton.
Course V.
Composition. Open to students who have completed Course III.
Course VI.
Orchestra. One credit for graduation but not for University.
Open to students sufficiently proficient on piano, violin, viola, ’cello, bass, cornet, clarinet, flute, or drum and traps, in so far as balance of tone color will allow.
DRAWING.
=Freehand Drawing=—Given in Ninth Year.
Principles of perspective drawing from type solids, casts, still life and plant forms in pencil, charcoal, pen and ink and water colors.
=Designing=—Given in Tenth Year.
Its principles and application. Lettering. Study of Historic Ornament.
=Geometric Drawing=—Given in Tenth or Eleventh Year.
Practice with mechanical drawing instruments, in the solution of Geometric Problems, with the study of freehand and mechanical printing.
=Advanced Freehand Drawing=—Given in the Eleventh Year.
Advanced charcoal and water color from casts, life, fruit, flowers, and landscape, and illustrative drawing.
=Applied Mechanical Drawing=—Given in Twelfth Year.
Selections made to suit the students’ needs.
=Industrial Arts=—Given in Twelfth Year.
Work selected to suit the students’ needs.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
1. One year of gymnasium work taken twice a week is required of all high school students. No unit credit is given for this alone. Athletic work, however, is taken throughout the four years, the equivalent of two periods a week—part gymnasium and part outdoor work—for which one unit is given towards graduation. For the first semester of the tenth year, a compulsory course in Hygiene is substituted for active work in the physical education department. A yearly medical and physical examination is required.
2. After the first term, if the work is deferred for a year or more, the first term must be repeated; for the required year’s work is to be continuous.
3. Girls’ Department—Gymnasium work consists of breathing exercises, free work, dumb bells, wands, Indian clubs, chest weights, mat work, folk dancing, and marching, with special emphasis laid on graceful carriage. Out door athletics—baseball, basket ball, volley ball, tennis, and playground games.
4. The regulation costume for girls’ class work consists of:
Middy Blouse .95 to 2.50 and Bloomers $2.50 and up Gym. Shoes .65 to 1.50
The course in hygiene for girls covers personal hygiene, including all the normal functions of the body—care of the infant and house; care of the sick; public sanitation, such as prevention of infectious diseases, garbage and sewage disposal; care of food in the home and supervision of dairies and markets, and federal activities in control of public health.
A medical examination is made of every freshman girl during her first term and is repeated as often after that as may seem necessary. In addition the physician is ready for consultation with pupils or their parents or teachers whenever desired.
5. Boys’ Work—Gymnasium work for boys consists of dumb bells and wand drill, Indian clubs, chest weights, breathing exercises, free hand and floor work. Special attention is paid to proper carriage. For advanced students, horse, parallel bars, horizontal bar and mat work. Out door athletics may be taken but is not compulsory. They consist of track, football, baseball, tennis, basketball, and swimming.
6. The regulation costume for the boys’ class work consists of:
Gymn. upper .50 Running pants .50 Supporter .75 Tennis shoes .70 to $1.50
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 3. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.