PNEU Curriculum, Year 10

PNEU Curriculum, Year 10, Age 15 (Form VB)

Bible (v. 3)

term 1:
Ruth
Amos
Hosea

term 2:
Isaiah 1-39
Micah
Esther

term 3:
Zephaniah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Jeremiah 1-3, 5-7, 19-23, 26, 28, 31, 34-39
no room: Joel

+ notes from A commentary on the Holy Bible: complete in one volume, with general articles edited by John Roberts Dummelow

The eighth century prophets by Ernest William Hamond (154 p.)
The seventh and sixth century prophets by Ernest William Hamond (p. 1-54)

The Saviour of the world, v. IV: The Bread of Life by Charlotte Mason (193 p.)

with Bible passages from index
+ notes from Dummelow commentary (above)

terms 1 & 2:
I & II Corinthians (except 5-7)
+ The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians: in the Revised version, with introduction and commentary by Ernest Evans, b. 1889 (215 p.)

term 3:
I & II Timothy
Titus
+ Dummelow commentary

(optional) A short religious history of Israel by Ernest William Hamond (158 p.)


Religion (optional) (v. 3)

Prayers, Hymns, etc.

Daily readings and notes (Series A): monthly schemes from the B.R.F. (Bible Reading Fellowship?)

Sunday reading (optional)

The story of the Bible: a popular account of how it came to us by Frederic George Kenyon, 1863-1952 (157 p.)

Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815-1881 (p. 1-179)

Abraham: recent discoveries and Hebrew origins by Leonard Woolley, 1880-1960 (299 p.)

The prophets of Israel by Edith Hamilton, 1867-1963 (202 p.)

Studies in the ministry of our Lord by Henry Falconar Barclay Mackay, 1864-1936 (272 p.)

The way and the faith: a study in early church history by Arthur Bevil Browne (346 p.)

term 1:
The realism of Christ's parables: Ida Hartley Lectures delivered at Colne, Lancs, October 1930 by Oliver Chase Quick, 1885-1944 (74 p.)

The clash of colour: a study in the problem of race by Basil Joseph Mathews, 1879-1951 (176 p.)

term 2:
Isaiah by George A. Birmingham, 1865-1950 (228 p.)

The Jesus of history by Terrot Reaveley Glover, 1869-1943 (225 p.)

The autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge, 1885-1924 --Rhodesia--

The life of Wesley and the rise and progress of Methodism by Robert Southey, 1774-1843

term 3:
The life and teaching of Jesus Christ by Charles Earle Raven, 1885-1964, & Eleanor Raven (263 p.)

Mary Slessor of Calabar: pioneer missionary by William Pringle Livingstone (353 p.) --Mary Mitchell Slessor, 1848-1915; Nigeria--

poems by William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, especially The Prelude


Reading (optional) (v. 3)

The technique of good speech by Kate Emil Behnke (256 p.)

The art of reading and speaking by James Fleming, d. 1908 (250 p.)


Composition (v. 2)

Daily "reports"

A good precis (see A senior English grammar, section IV by R.B. Morgan and H.A. Treble)

Essays on subjects suggested by the work in Literature, History, Science, or, on topics of the day (see Times leaders)

Occasionally write verses, which must scan, in the meters of the poems read (see The nature of English poetry by L.S. Harris and A senior English grammar, section VII by R.B. Morgan and H.A. Treble)

For reference:

A dictionary of modern English usage by H.W. Fowler


Grammar (v. 2)

English past and present by Trench

    p. 7-51
    p. 51-110
    p. 111-158

Parse and analyze every week.

For reference and review (accidence, syntax, history of language, etc.):

    A senior English grammar by R.B. Morgan and H.A. Treble


Literature -- includes evening and holiday reading (v. 2)

1.    The Persians by AEschylus
        Prometheus bound by Aeschylus
        Agamemnon by Aeschylus

2.    Romeo and Juliet
        All's well that ends well or Merry wives of Windsor
        Pericles

3.    1660-1714:
        Paradise lost, books I & V, by Milton
        Rape of the lock by Pope
        contemporary poetry from Oxford book of English verse or Book of English poetry
        De Coverley papers
        Essays from The Spectator
        Battle of the books by Swift
        Sohrab and Rustum by Matthew Arnold
        Henry Esmond by Thackeray
            or
        Evan Harrington by George Meredith

        form IV: She stoops to conquer

    1714-1783:
        Poems and Letters by Gray
            or
        Poems by Cowper
        Citizen of the world by Goldsmith
        contemporary poetry from Oxford book of English verse or Book of English poetry
        Life of Johnson, v. I, by Boswell
            or
        Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
        Gulliver's travels, books I & II, by Swift
        The rivals by Sheridan
        The Virginians by Thackeray
            or
        Waverley by Scott

        form IV: Vicar of Wakefield by Goldsmith

    1783-1815:
        Poems by Wordsworth, especially, The Prelude, Sonnets on independence and liberty
        Essays in criticism, 2nd series: Wordsworth by Matthew Arnold
        The golden book of Coleridge
        contemporary poetry from Oxford book of English verse or Book of English poetry
        Revolt of the Tartars by De Quincey
        Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
        The Dynasts by T. Hardy
        Vanity Fair by Thackeray
        Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
        John Halifax, gentleman by Mrs. Craik

        form IV: St. Ives by Stevenson or Jim Davis by Masefield

For reference:

    A history of English literature by Emile Legouis and L. Cazamian
    Shakespeare: the man and his stage by E.A.G. Lambourne and G.B. Harrison
    
Activities

Be able to give some account of what you have read in each book, with sketches of the chief characters.
Keep a commonplace book for passages that strike you particularly.

Recitations

Learn 100 lines of poetry.


English history (v. 3)

Text, e.g., A short history of the English people by John Richard Green, 1837-1883

p. 583-783 (1660-1815)

1660-1714:
Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703, passages
    (optional)

The naval side of British history by Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender, 1875-1946 (305 p.)

1660-1714:
Critical and historical essays: War of Spanish succession by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859

1714-1783:
Letters on the American War of Independence by Horace Walpole, 1717-1797 (123 p.)

1783-1815:
History of England by George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1876-1962 (723 p.)

Letters and despatches of Horatio, viscount Nelson [1758-1805] ...

Subscribe to the Home and Classroom section of The Times

Read the daily news and keep a calendar of events


World history (v. 3)

Medieval and modern times: an introduction to the history of western Europe from the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the opening of the great war of 1914 by James Harvey Robinson, 1863-1936

p. 382-562

also used

Modern Europe: a school history by John Lord, 1810-1894

A short history of the world from the Renaissance to the League of Nations by Elizabeth Underwood

1714-1783:

Critical and historical essays: Frederick the Great by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859--Frederick the Great of Prussia, 1712-1786--

1783-1815:

Critical and historical essays: Warren Hastings by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1800-1859--Warren Hastings, 1732-1818--

The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881

Napoleon by H.A.L. (Herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher, 1865-1940--Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--


Ancient history (v. 3)

Ancient times: a history of the early world: an introduction to the study of ancient history and the career of early man by James Henry Breasted, 1865-1935

p. 455-606 (Greece after 404 B.C. & Rome to 264 B.C.)

Everyday things in Ancient Greece by Marjorie & Charles Henry Bourne Quennell, 1872-1935

Keep a Book of centuries, putting in illustrations from all the history studied--Bible, English, French, general, and ancient.


Citizenship (v. 3)

1. Ourselves by Charlotte Mason, 1842-1923

book II, p. 1-103

2. The English-speaking nations: a study in the development of the commonwealth ideal by Guy Wilfrid Morris and Leonard Southerden Wood

p. 1-192

3. Areopagitica by John Milton, 1608-1674
England under Queen Anne by George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1876-1962
Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents by Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

4. (optional)
For current problems: The King-Hall newsletters, weekly


Geography (v. 3)

1. Geography books. Book 5, Asia, Africa, America, and Australia by Charlotte Mason, 1842-1923

p. 161-325 (Americas, Australia)

2. Our guardian fleets in 1805 by Horace West Household, b. 1870

p. 106-220

3. Geology by Archibald Geikie, 1835-1924

p. 1-137

or

An introduction to geology by Arthur Elijah Trueman, 1894-1956

p. 1-110

Summarize readings by memory maps on blackboard.

4. (optional)

A naturalist on the River Amazon by Henry Walter Bates, 1825-1892 (407 p.)

Six months in the Sandwich Islands: among Hawaii's palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes by Isabella Lucy Bird, 1831-1904 (318 p.)

I find Australia by William Hatfield, b. 1892 (348 p.)

5. Know, from atlas (gazetteer) and current Whitaker's Almanac, something about foreign regions coming most into note in the newspapers and in connection with history, etc., studied.

6. Some account of the geology of your neighborhood, drawing sections, and its physiography, with diagrams.


French (v. 3)

1. L'enseignement litteraire du francais by Jeanne Molmy

v. 1, lessons 1-41
 
2. Read poets contemporary with British history and learn 2 poems from

A book of French verse chosen and arranged for school use by Marc Ceppi, b. 1875

3.
Histoire de France: monarques et personnages illustres, evenements dramatiques des regnes by Maurice Thiery (180 p.)

4.

Le verre d'eau, ou, Les effets et les causes: comedie en cinq actes et en prose by  Eugene Scribe, 1791-1861
with
La tulipe noire by Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870

Le foyer breton: contes et recits populaires by Emile Souvestre, 1806-1854
p. 1-174
with
*Three plays by A. de Murset, p. 21-232

4. Subscribe to a French paper.

5. For reference:
Concise Oxford French dictionary

Cour moyen et superieur by Macquet, Flot, and Roy

Extracts for translation into French, German, Spanish or Italian by Edgar Allison Peers, 1891-1952


Latin (v. 3)

1. Limen: a first Latin book by William Charles Flamstead Walters (d. 1927) & Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933)

pt. I, p. 95-172

with corresponding exercises and narration of continuous passages.

2. Correspondence (selections) of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.

letters 1-29

3. Aeneid by Virgil, 70-19 B.C.

book I, lines 1-756

4. (optional)

Dies Romani: short readings from Latin literature by W.F. Witton may be used for practice in translation

Latin prose composition by Michael Arthur North (b. 1865) & Albert Ernest Hillard (1865-1935)


German (v. 2)

1.    Work through German Conversation-Grammar by Otto

2.    Learn poems from Deutsche Lyrik

3.    1660-1714:
        Der Burgergeneral by Goethe
        Immensee by Storm

    1714-1783:
        Der Neffe als Onkel by Schiller

    1783-1815:
        Der Silberdistel by Muellenbach
        Peter Schlemihl by Chamisso

4.    (optional) School certificate German composition by C.E. Stockton

For reference:

    German dictionary  by James

or  Italian

1.    Work through Practical Italian grammar by J.L. Russo

2.    For conversation practice, Brush up your Italian by G. Tassinari

3.    First book of Italian verse, selected by John Purves

4.    Cuore by E. de Amicis


Science (v. 2)

1.    Botany by D. Thoday
        p. 1-13, 334-381, 446-468
        p. 112-179, 446-468
        p. 88-111, 239-277

    or

    Fundamentals of biology by J.W. Stork & L. Renouf
        p. 1-68
        p. 69-76, 143-196, 267-279
        p. 77-142

(optional)     Introduction to zoology by R. Lulham +
        Life of plants by Sir Frederick Keeble

2.    Science: a new outline by J.W.N. Sullivan
        p. 3-94
        p. 97-142
        p. 143-184

    or

    How wireless came by J. Langeon-Davies
        p. 1-62
        p. 63-127
        p. 128-173

3.    Worlds without end by H. Spencer Jones
        p. 1-40
        p. 40-81
        p. 82-119

4.    Keep a nature notebook, with flower and bird lists, notes on habitat, song, migration, and flight.

5.    For suggestions for outdoor or practical work, use
    Appendix A of Fundamentals of biology by J.W. Stork and L. Renouf +
    An elementary practical biology by M.A. Shuttleworth
        or
    Botany by Dr. Caver - see questions at the end of chapters, e.g.,
            
        ecology, roots, conifers
        buds, trees, shrubs,
        foliage, flowers and their work

Specimens must be found, if possible, for all botanical work, and experiments must be made.

6.    Follow newspaper reports on astronomical subjects.
Make charts of the changes in position of the constellations and planets visible.

For reference:

Stars at a glance
    or
Our stars month by month by Mary Proctor

Life by the seashore by M.I. Newbigin

Bird migration by A. Landsborough Thomson
How to know British birds by N.H. Joy

Pocket book of British butterflies and moths by C.A. Hall

Wild flowers of the wayside and woodland by T.H. Scott and W.J. Stokoe
Pocket book of British trees by E.H.B. Boulton


Physical education (v. 2)

Daily drill, dancing, or games

For reference:

    Manual of free standing movements by H.D. Hassum
    
    Syllabus of physical training for schools, supplement 12

    The English country dance, graded series, v. I-VIII: music and instructions for 6 dances in each volume

    Hockey by Marjorie Pollard

    Lawn tennis by F.W. Burrows

    Swimming by S.G. Hedges

    Netball


Mathematics (v. 2)

1.    Fundamental arithmetic, book VI, by Dr. Ballard
    Teacher's book VI is also essential

        p. 22-43
        p. 44-68
        p. 69-96

2.    Arithmetical dictation, book VI, by Alfred Wisdom, for mental work

        ex. 352-373
        ex. 374-400
        ex. 401-420

3.    Deductive geometry by R.W.M. Gibbs

        p. 106-130
        p. 131-161
        p. 162-195

    The school set of mathematical instruments  

4.    A first course in algebra by W.G. Borchardt

        p. 204-221
        p. 222-239
        p. 240-259


Music appreciation (v. 2)

Listen to music by 3 composers

    Mozart
    Chopin + (optional) Chopin by J.C. Hadden
    Schumann

(optional)
    The enjoyment of music by A.W. Pollitt
    Lives of the great composers, ed. by A.L. Bacharach
    The musical companion, ed. by A.L. Bacharach


Singing (v. 2)

6 French songs

6 German or Italian songs

6 English songs

Learn songs by the composers studied in Music appreciation and Christmas carols when appropriate.

        Clarendon song books, books V & VI
        Oxford book of carols
        Clarendon classical song books, book I
        Clarendon aria books, book I
        Practical sight-singer by A. Carse
        term 3 only: Album of 30 songs by Schumann


Music (v. 2)

Choose and learn suitable compositions from the programme of music each term.

(optional)
    The growth of music by H.C. Colles

Foundations of practical harmony and counterpoint by R.O. Morris -12 chapters; see preface
    or
    Practical harmony by Stewart Macpherson

    Elements of music by F. Davenport


Art appreciation (v. 2)

1.    Study reproductions of 6 pictures (each) by 3 painters

        Perugino + Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin
        Memling
        Watts

2.    Schools of painting by M. Innes

        p. 1-51
        p. 52-107
        p. 108-161

3.    The basis of design by Walter Crane

        p. 1-90
        p. 91-159
        p. 160-221

4.    The story of architecture by P.L. Waterhouse

        p. 1-58
        p. 59-105 (Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque)
        p. 105-148

For reference:

    Styles of architecture: introductory handbook, pt. I, by A. Stratton
    How to look at buildings by D. Braddell


Drawing and painting (v. 2)

1.    Memory drawings of

        plants
        figures, e.g., 3-minute poses
        natural forms

2.    Studies of

        still-life studies based on geometrical forms
        interiors in perspective; light and shade
        sketches of buildings and types of architecture

3.    Designs for

        borders for plates, mugs, etc., i.e., designs for painted china
        lino-block printing
        rugs and tapestry

For reference:

Drawing, design, and craftwork by F.J. Glass

Sketching and painting by D.D. Sawer

The way to sketch by Vernon Blake


Handcraft (v. 2)

1.    Do some definite house or garden work. Darn and mend each week.

        Practical housecraft: Housewifery, Laundry, Cookery

2.    Help the Save the Children Fund or a similar agency.

3.    Design and work some embroidery

        Art in needlework by Lewis F. Day and M. Buckle

4.    Make a garment

        Pattern making and cutting out by Mrs. E. Griffiths
            or
        Pattern making book by G. Mason
        
        Vogue's Book of smart dressmaking
        Constructive needlework for schools by O. Hacking

5.    Make wood blocks for repeating patterns
    Fabrics printing by W.B. Adeney
    Book crafts for senior pupils   

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