 | The University of Virginia record April, 1909 |  |
ELEMENTARY ENGLISH.
Miss Andrews.
7. Elementary Language Work.—This course is planned to give teachers
of the elementary schools a brief, concentrated study of the essentials of matter and
method for the language work of all grades above the primary. The topics discussed
will include the following: the purpose and plan of language study; vital
points in language teaching; language environment; relation of language to other
subjects; the child's activities and experience as a basis for language work; language
and character; the teacher of language; literature and language; importance of
oral language training; types of oral lessons—conversation lessons, picture lessons,
study of stories and poems; dramatization, memorizing, lessons in usage and form;
spelling and word study; the course of study in language; the function and types of
written work.
Teachers possessing several series of language books and professional works on
teaching language are advised to brings them for reference.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Cabell Hall, Room 2.
Text-Book.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book I.
8. 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. There will be a condensed study of descriptive
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. Frequent touches of comparative and historical
grammar will be employed for the sake of the new light and interest gained
therefrom. There will be, in addition, a consideration of the historical development
in the elementary schools, and the relation of grammar to language work.
Those expecting to take this course should bring all the good grammars in their
possession for broader reference work.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Cabell Hall, Room 2.
Text-Book.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book II.
| The University of Virginia record April, 1909 | |