School educationMason, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria)
Philosophy
School education
Mason, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria)
Education -- Curricula; Education -- Philosophy
3. Write in French a short _résumé_ of the chapters read in _Le Général
Dourakine_.
4. Make sentences to show the use of _cette_, _ces_, _ce_, _cet_,
_leurs_, _ses_, _tel_, _chaque_, _même_, _nul_.
_German._
1. Say three sections of a Gouin _Series_, and translate into English and
retranslate into German page 6, lines 14-24, from _Heroengeschichten_.
2. Translate into German:—(_a_) Which of these flowers is the finest?
(_b_) I have been once in Berlin and three times in Paris.
3. Make sentences with other adjectives, using the German for 6, 15, 17,
9, 4, 18.
_Italian._
Recite two _Series_, and give two rules exemplified.
_Latin._
1. Translate into English and retranslate into Latin Fable V., page 61,
and parse each word in the first sentence.
2. Translate into Latin:—(_a_) We dream whole nights; (_b_) I will teach
you music; (_c_) The Roman people elected Numa king; (_d_) The Gauls
dwell on this side the Rhine; (_e_) The master sees that many boys play.
What rule is illustrated in each sentence?
BEGINNERS—
1. Translate into Latin:—(_a_) Where is the shield? (_b_) A narrow shield
is bad; (_c_) The hen is small.
2. Make sentences using the words _hic_, _porta_, _augusta_, _duo_,
_capita_, _dux_, _quattuor_, _qui_, _sumus_, _murum_, _vident_.
_English History._
1. What do you know of the Anti-Corn Law League, and what have you heard
or read about a similar agitation in this country to-day?
2. What reasons induced each of the five countries engaged to enter on
the Crimean War? Give some account of the war.
3. “It was felt by all ... that the government of India ... could not be
left in the hands of the East India Company.” Why? Give some account of
the events which led up to this.
_French History._
1. Write shortly the history of the war with Prussia.
2. Describe the new constitution of 1875.
_Roman History._
1. “Sardians to be sold.” Who said this? Tell the story.
2. How did Romulus unite the Romans and the Sabines?
_Geography._
1. Describe, with a map, a visit to the West Indies. What recent event in
these islands do you know of?
2. Write a short description of (_a_) Mexico, and (_b_) a Brazilian
forest.
3. What is meant by saying, “The gates of the pathways of the sea are in
the hands of the British race”? Illustrate with a map.
4. How are coral reefs formed? Give a diagram of one. Describe, with
diagrams, a volcano.
_English Grammar._
1. Analyse, parsing the words in italics:—
_One by_ one the flowers _close_,
Lily and dewy rose
_Shutting their_ tender petals _from_ the moon.
The grasshoppers are _still_; but not _so soon_
Are still the _noisy_ crows.
2. Make sentences, showing the different ways in which the following may
be used:—_dying_, _making_, _to tell_, _but_.
3. Give some words with each of the following prefixes:—_epi_, _hypo_,
_cata_, _di_, _syn_.
_Singing._[32]
Father to choose an English, a French, and a German song, and three Tonic
Sol-fa exercises.
_Writing._
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