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Title: State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.) Undergraduate Catalog
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)
Subjects: State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.) – Curricula - Catalogs State Teachers College (Farmville, Va.) - Curricula - Catalogs Longwood College - Curricula - Catalogs Longwood University - Curricula - Catalogs
Publisher: State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.
Contributing Library: Longwood University
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dividualduty to the mother-tongue. TTie course seeks to dignify andmagnify the office of English in the common schools, and to showthat teachers can bring life and interest to school children inthe study of the vernacular, which should be to them the mostenjoyable subject of all, as it is the most important. With the foregoing as a foundation, the last end in view is anintelligent, discriminating, unprejudiced study of methods ormodes of procedure in the class room. No dogmatic presenta-tion of arbitrary, eut-and-dried methods is attempted; ratherthe effort is made to arouse and stimulate the pupils spon-taneity and ingenuity in making her own methods. The teachers in all departments co-operate with the teachersof English in encouraging good habits in speech and writing.In every class a student notably deficient in English suffers acorresponding loss of rank and standing in that class becauseof such weakness. The entire course in this department, by subjects and classes,is as follows:
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State Female Normal School 33 FIRST YEAR. Section A—Language Lessons and Grammar, four periods aweek; Spelling, two periods a week. Text Books: Gordy and Meads Grammar Lessons and Mer-rills Speller. Section B—The work of Section A continued and enlarged,six periods. SECOND YEAR. Section A—Rhetoric, three periods a week. Text Book: Merkleys Modern Rhetoric, Book I. Supplementary Reading: Scotts Lady of the Lake, Dick-ens Cricket on the Hearth, and Wiggins TimothysQuest. Section B—Bhetoric, three periods a week. Text Book: Merkleys Modern Rhetoric, Book II. Supplementary Reading: Scotts The Talisman, LowellsThe Vision of Sir Launfal, and Goldsmiths Deserted Vil-lage. THIRD YEAR. Section A—Composition, three periods a week. Special at-tention is given to oral composition. Text Book: Scott and Denneys Elementary Composition. Supplementary Reading: George Eliots Silas Marner,Franklins Autobiography, and Whittiers Snow-Bound. Section B—Composition, three periods a week. Written

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