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2. Read in y : At first from the board and then from the book
a little at a time with great care. r
3. Dictation : One short piece weekly; at-^rst transcription
from the board, and then from the passages read in the book.
4. Recitation : A dialogue and two short pieces of prose.
SECOND YEAR (Seven Periods a Week).
Reading and Conversation.
1. Reading : From the book with questions and answers on
what is read.
2. Dictation : One piece weekly from the passages read in
the books.
3. Grammar -. Irregular plurals; subject, predicate and ob
ject; gender; number; person; the three simple tenses; the differ
ence between adjective and adverb.
4. Oral Composition : Illusti'ating the above in short sen
tences on familiar subjects; occasional exercises in writing.
5. Recitation : A dialogue and two pieces of prose.
THIRD Y EAR (Eight Periods a Week).
Reading and Conversation.
1. Reading from the book with simple explanation and para
phrase.
2. Dictation : One piece weekly, sometimes unseen.
3. Grammar : Repetition of previous work. The moods of
verbs; the auxiliary verb; particles; comparative and superlatives.
4. Composition: Partly oral, partly written; consisting of
sentences containing the above.
5. Recitation : One piece of verse, two pieces of prose, and a
dialogue of a dramatic nature.
FOURTH YEAR (Nine Periods a Week).
Revision of Previous Work.
1. Reading : From the book with explanation of points of
grammar and syntax.
2. Dictation : Two pieces weekly, one unseen.
3. Grammar and syntax : The construction of sentences
compound and simple; subordinate clause^ expanded from adjec
tives and adverbs; the relative clause; easy oral parsing and analysis.
4. Composition : Oral and written on the above.
5. Recitation : Two pieces of poetry, two dialogues and three
short pieces of connected prose.
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