isthmus, brook, pond, lake, strait, island, etc. Construction of map of County, showing chief natural features, and the location of the chief towns, villages or prominent places (the parish lines to be inserted where practicable.) (Ruddiman Johnston's map of Geographical Definitions.) Useful Knowledge. Minerals (Oral).--Lessons on minerals or stones in the district-names and how distinguished from each other. Plant Life (Oral).- Agricultural products of the district. Trees, shrubs, herbs different ways of distinguishing one from another, &c., by form, colour, and size of trunk, branches, leaves, bark. Animal Life (Oral).-Ear and Eye-use and care of. By means of pictures to distinguish and name such animals as are treated of in the Reader, and give their prominent structural characteristics. Domestic and wild animals of the district. Oral lessons on all Useful Knowledge Lessons in Reader before the pupil is required to memorize the answers to the questions. Colour.-Ideas of primary, secondary and tertiary colours developed. How these colors are produced. The pupil required to produce them by mixing colors. STANDARD IV. LANGUAGE: (Fourth Grade or Year.) Reading. Reading, Spelling. Correct pronunciation of all words used. Transcription, dictation, meaning of words. Reader No. III† Recitation as before. Composition. Oral correction of wrong forms of speech used by the pupils. Repeating substance of reading or oral lesson before leaving it. Written answers to questions on reading lesson. From the answers to make the necessary additions or alterations so as to form a connected narrative. Weekly exercise, reproducing the substance of a previous oral lesson. To write a short letter, and draw on the slate an outline of an envelope, correctly superscribed. History.-Biographical sketches of at least four eminent persons, bringing out prominently the moral principles underlying their actions. Lessons on current events. Industrial Drawing.- Freehand outline on slate and blackboard. Drawing-Book No. 2 (Shorter Course), Modelling, etc., continued. Print-script, continued. Writing-Copy-book. Nos. 2 and 3 McMillan's Series. Singing. By rote: Additional songs selected chiefly from Canadian Song Book and Curwen's series. Ideas of high and low, long and short sounds, expression. [See Reg. 16 (5).] NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE: Arithmetic. Notation, Numeration, Arabic and Roman, and the fundamental rules (Text-Book). Tables of Weights and Measures completed. (Weights and +Or, not less than Part I, where the French-English Reader No. III is used. Measures to be examined and used by the pupils.) Constructed and memorized as before. Mental Arithmetic on the foregoing rules, to precede each class exercise. Geography (Oral).-Form of the Earth, as learned from a Globe. Land and Water Surface of the Earth. Great Continents and Great Oceans, with relative positions. One or two important countries in each continent treated chiefly with respect to their great physical features, productions, or industries. Lessons on Motions of the Earth of the nature of those in Useful Knowledge lessons in Reader. Geography of the Province; also its industries, exports and imports. Practice in drawing map of the Province, and ability to draw it from memory. Location of all places referred to in Reader. Useful Knowledge. Minerals (Oral).—Principal Minerals of the Province, localities and uses. Oral lessons on Metals (similar to those in Useful Knowledge lessons in Reader). Plant Life (Oral).- Names of the principal forest trees of the Provincetheir uses. Agricultural productions of the Province. Animal Life (Oral).-Organs of Respiration-Effects of alcoholic stimulants thereon. Domestic and wild animals of the Province. General structure of such animals as are treated of in Reader. Oral lessons on Useful Knowledge lessons in Reader before the upil is required to memorize the answers to the questions. Color.-Develop ideas of harmony of color. Law of harmony developed and practically illustrated. (Optional.) ADVANCED SCHOOLS.* [See Note prefixed to the course relative to Friday afternoon's exercises.] NOTE. Under each of the Standards V to VIII familiar lessons adapted to each Grade, to be given on the conditions of Health-pure air, sunlight, good water, wholesome food, proper clothing, cleanly and temperate habits, avoidance of draughts and *The following is suggested to Teachers as an approximate allotment of time for the subjects embraced iu the Advanced School Course. It is to be carefully noted, however, that in the annexed allotment all the subjects specified are treated as though actually taught in one department at the same time. The teacher of each of these Standards, therefore, must modify the apportionment according to the subjects actually embraced in any particular Standard. The time required for Opening Exercises, Roll-call, and Physical Exercises, is to be deducted from the figures here given: NATURAL HISTORY-50 per cent. LANGUAGE-50 per cent. sudden checking of respiration, dry feet, regularity in activity and rest, etc.; and on Morals and Manners, as specified in Regs. 11 and 22. Physical Exercises of the prescribed Manual each session (Blaikie's Sound Bodies for our Boys and Girls). Recesses, as specified in Reg. 19 [6]. Optional: Sewing for girls, progressively from one kind of stitch and garment to another, including the several varieties of useful sewing, and especially mending, patching, and darning well, and the making of good button-holes. Knitting, but no fancy work of any kind during school hours. Reading.--Reading and Spelling. Reader No. 4. Clear and correct pronunciation of all words used. Dictation. Special and general meanings of words. Derivation of words. Recitation [see Reg. 16 (5)] from the Reader (one-fourth of the School weekly). Exercises in pure tone. Composition. Written Exercises in Reading lesson. Semi-monthly exercise reproducing in connected form the substance of a previous oral lesson, and a monthly exercise in simple narrative on familiar occurrences. Narrative sometimes in the form of a letter. Grammar (Oral).-Developing ideas of subject and predicate. Classification of words into eight parts of speech. History. Chief events in the history of the Province orally, beginning with the most recent events. Outline of British History to the end of Norman period, emphasizing facts or events rather than dates (Reader). Industrial Drawing.-Drawing Book No. 3. (Shorter Course.) Modelling, etc., as before. Writing.-Copy-Book Nos. 4 and 5. McMillan's Series. Print-script. Singing.-By Rote: Songs selected from Canadian Song Book and Curwen's Series. Rounds. Theory (optional). Pitch of sounds, the Staff, the Scale of C. Simple Rhythm. [See Reg. 16 (5).] NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE: Arithmetic.-Prime Numbers. Fractions. (Text-book, Chaps. II and III.) (Exercise 53 and any questions involving a knowledge of its principles may be omitted at the option of the Teacher till a later stage.) Mental Arithmetic bearing on these rules before each class exercise. Geography.-(Text-book.) General Geography of the Dominion with special reference to physical features. Practice in drawing outline map of the Dominion and ability General Geography of Nova Scotia and P. E. Island with to draw it from memory. + In Acadian Schools the Reader Les Grandes Inventions Modernes to alternate with Reader No. 4. map drawing as before. Location of places named in Reader as before. Ideas of latitude and longitude developed before definitions are memorized. Useful Knowledge. Minerals.-General qualities and uses of the more useful metals and minerals of the Province (Oral). Plant Life.-General characteristics of the useful and hurtful plants of the Prov ince (Oral). Animal Life.-Organs of digestion and circulation. Effects of alcoholic stimulants thereon. Adaptation of structure to habit of such animals as the cow, the squirrel, the camel, the lion, the elephant and the whale (Oral). Reading, Spelling, Recitation, &c.-As specified in Standard V. Derivation of words. Composition. As specified in Standard V. Grammar and Analysis.-Text-book to conjugation of verbs. History. Chief events in the Dominion of Canada to A. D. 1663, (Text-book, Archer's Shorter History of Canada. Outline of British History completed. Facts or events to be emphasized rather than dates (Reader). Industrial Drawing.-Drawing Book No. 4. (Shorter Course). Modelling continued. Writing. Copy-book No. 6, McMillan's Series. Singing. By Rote: Additional songs selected from Canadian Song-book and Curwen's Series. Theory (optional). Two-part singing. Rhythm concluded. Expression, time. [See Reg. 16 (5)]. NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE: Arithmetic. Decimals, Business Arithmetic, Chaps. IV and Vomitting till a later stage circulating decimals and all questions involving a knowledge of them. Mental Arithmetic as before. Geography. Geography of the remaining Provinces of the Dominion and of Newfoundland. General Geography of Europe. Map-drawing as before. Causes of day and night. Unequal length of day. (Text-book.) Useful Knowledge. The Mineral Kingdom.--Lessons to be illustrated by specimens, (Text-book, Part I, Bailey's Natural History). Physical effect of alcoholic stimulants upon the human system. Lessons to be illustrated by experiments where practicable. Text-book, Palmer's Temperance Teach-ings of Science, N. B. Edition, Chaps. I–IV inclusive. Physics, (Oral).-Hotze's First Lessons in Physics for Teacher's use only. Lessons 1-13 inclusive. STANDARD VII. (Seventh Grade or Year.) LANGUAGE: Reading.-Reader No. 5.* Clear and correct pronunciation of all words used. Attention to the excellences of thought and style of the passages read. Spelling, Derivation of words, Systematic exercises to secure expression, begun. Recitation as before. [See Reg. 16 (5)]. Composition.-Transposing passages from the metrical to the prose form. Abstract of reading lesson. Historical narrative as illustrated in Reader. Letter writing. Grammar and Analysis.-Text-book to complex and compound sentences. Latin (optional).—To the end of Declensions, (Bryce's First Latin Reader). French (optional).--French-English Reader No. 1, and Elementary Grammar (Duval's). History. Chief events in the History of Canada to 1812, (Text-book). Outlines of British History, (Reader). Facts or events to be emphasized as before. Industrial Drawing.-Drawing Book No. 5. (Shorter Course.) Modelling, etc., continued. Writing.-Copy-Book, No. 7, McMillan's series. Singing. By Rote: Songs selected from Canadian Song Book and Curwen's Series. Theory (optional).—Analysis of the diatonic scale-transposition of the scale. NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE: Mathematics.- Arithmetic-Proportion, Percentage, Interest, Chapters VI and VII, also the portions omitted from Chapters III and IV in Standards V and VI to be studied in this Standard; Mental Arithmetic as before. Geometry.-Definitions, Propositions 1-15 inclusive of Book I, with the easier exercises. Hamblin Smith's Geometry. Algebra.-Signs and Definitions. Geography.-The British Colonies. of South America. Climate. Map Drawing as before. Addition and Subtraction. General Geography of the United States and (Text-book). *In Acadian Schools Reader No. 5 is alternate with Reader Les Grandes Inventions Modernes. +Trustees are urged to provide instruction in Latin for all pupils in Grades VII and VIII desirous of taking the Classical Course in High Schools. |