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ELEMENTARY ENGLISH.

Miss Andrews.

5. Intermediate Language Work.—This course is designed to give teachers
in the elementary schools the essentials of matter and method for the language work
of the four intermediate grades, third to sixth. The topics discussed will include
the following: purpose and plan of language study; language environment; relation
of language to other subjects; language and character; the teacher of language;
importance of oral language; types of oral language lessons; conversation lessons,
picture lessons, lessons on stories and poems, memorizing, lessons in usage, word
study; the function of written work; incidental grammar of the intermediate grades.

Teachers possessing several series of language books and professional works
on teaching language, are advised to bring them for reference.

Daily, from 8.45 to 9.45. Cabell Hall, Room 2.

Text Book.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book I.

6. Elementary Grammar.—This course will cover the work of the seventh
and eighth grades, aiming primarily at giving teachers a deeper, surer knowledge
of the subject matter of grammar, with especial emphasis upon the more difficult
points.—the abstract noun, the comparison of adjectives, the function of case,
the personal pronoun, analysis, and, above all, the verb and the verbals. There will
be, in addition, such discussions of methods as will prove most helpful to the
class.

Those expecting to take this course should bring all the good grammars in their
possession for broader reference work.

Daily, from 2.30 to 3.30. Cabell Hall, Room 2.

Text-Book.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book II.