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ELEMENTARY ENGLISH.
Miss Andrews.
8. Elementary Language.—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 own activities and experience as a basis for language work; language and
character; language and the community; the teacher of language; literature and
language; English for rural schools; importance of oral language training; types
of oral lessons—conversation lessons, picture lessons, the study of stories, memorizing
poems, dramatization, the correction of common errors of speech; spelling and word
study; the course of study in language; the function and types of written work;
how to secure better written work. The treatment of these topics will be practical
and suggestive, rather than theoretical.
Text-Books.—Hyde's Two Book Course in English, Book I; Emerson and Bender's
Modern English, Book I. It is recommended that any series of language books, and
professional works on teaching language, be brought for reference.
Daily, from 8:30 to 9:30. Cabell Hall, Room 2.
9. Elementary Grammar.—This course aims primarily at giving teachers a
deeper, surer knowledge of the subject matter of grammar, and those completing
the work satisfactorily should find themselves thoroughly prepared for the State
examination in this subject. The instruction will cover the work of the seventh
and eighth grades. Language will be considered mainly from the functional side,
and presented so as to provide training in the actual process of thinking. There
will be a condensed study of the essential features 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, all phases of 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 to be gained
therefrom. There will be, in addition, some consideration of the historical development
grammar in the elementary schools, the relation of grammar to language work, and
grammar as a record of usage rather than a law of usage.
Text-Books.—Hyde's Two-Book Course in English, Book II; Emerson and Bender's
Modern English, Book II.
Section I, Daily, from 10:30 to 11:30; Section II, Daily, from 12:15 to 1:15.
Cabell Hall, Room 2.
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