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Geography: The general geography of the world; geography of Canada more particularly. Text book: The New Canadian Geography (Saskatchewan and Alberta Edition).

History: The leading events of Canadian history with particular attention to events subsequent to 1840; the outlines of British history. Text books: Duncan's The Canadian People, Symes and Wrong's English History.

Nature Study and Agriculture: (a) Nature Study-A general review of the topics prescribed for preceding grades including leaves their position, arrangement, form and venation; their relation to sunlight, air and direction of water to roots. Flowers silver weed, anemone, rose, violet, everlasting pea, sunflower, wild bergamot; arrangement and uses of their parts. Roots-wheat, willow, carrot, turnip, radish, potato; their forms and uses of their parts to the plant and to man. Plants their food, its sources, how taken up, how a similated; their reproduction; propagation; dissemination of seeds. Animals-ant, fly, grasshopper; hawk, crane, duck; gopher, wolf, muskrat; adaptation of their forms and structure to their modes of life. (b) Agriculture-A general knowledge of the following topics: Soilsformation, composition, classification, exhaustion and restoration; preparation for crops; tilling and draining. Crops-their growth, management, rotation, diseases. Live stock and dairying-feeding, care and management of farm animals; butter making. Insects growth, classification, remedies. Weeds-wild buckwheat, tumble-weed, hedge mustard, stinkweed, Russian thistle; methods of destroying. Treestheir cultivation for shade, ornament and protection. Reference book for pupils and teachers: Agriculture by James and McIntyre.

Hygiene and Temperance: As outlined in the Programme of Studies for preceding grades. Teacher's reference books: Ontario Public School Physiology and Temperance. Knight's Introductory Physiology and Hygiene (Copp, Clark Co.).

Penmanship: Principles of letter formation; figures; ledger headings; addressing envelopes; a legible business hand. Neatness and legibility should be required in all written exercises.

Drawing: Representation, construction, decoration, as in Prang's New Graded Course in Drawing for Canadian Schools, Books I and II. Teacher's reference: The Manual.

Music: As outlined in the Programme of Studies for preceding grades. Text book: King Edward Music Readers (First and Second).

The obligatory subjects of the standard are Reading, Literature, Composition, Grammar, Orthoepy and Spelling, Arithmetic and Mensuration, Geography, British and Canadian History, Nature Study, Hygiene and Temperance, Physical Culture, Penmanship and Drawing.

The optional subjects of the standard are Geometry, Bookkeeping, Agriculture and Music.

Candidates for Examination shall be required to write upon the following subjects: Literature, Composition, Grammar, Orthoepy and Spelling, Arithmetic and Mensuration, Geometry, History, Geography, Drawing, Nature Study and Agriculture. The marks for Penmanship shall be awarded on the Composition paper.

APPENDIX D.

COURSES OF STUDIES AND ANNUAL EXAMINATION FOR GRADES IX AND X.

GENERAL.

1. The annual departmental examination for Grades IX and X shall be held between June 20th and July 15th, upon such days and at such places as may be determined by the Minister of Education.

2. Every candidate who desires to write upon any departmental examination shall, not later than May 15th, make application to the department. Special forms are furnished for this purpose.

3. The Principal of every school having candidates for examination shall, before June 30th, forward to the department a confidential report on each candidate under the following heads: Length of time preparing for examination, regularity of attendance, attitude towards. work, general grasp of each subject, physical fitness for examination, chances for passing. Where possible percentages based upon the candidate's work during the year should be given.

4. In order to be eligible for admission to the Grade X examination in 1912, candidates must have previously written upon the Standard VI examination, or have received from the department notice of admission to this examination.

5. In order to pass a candidate is required to obtain 50 per cent. of the total number of marks, 40 per cent. on the paper in English Composition, and 34 per cent. on every other paper or on each part thereof.

6. Every person who passes the annual departmental examination for Grade IX or X shall receive a Diploma certifying thereto.

7. Any candidate who fails to pass the examination for Grade X may be granted a Grade IX Diploma provided such candidate obtains 40 per cent. of the total marks, and 30 per cent. on each

paper.

8. Every unsuccessful candidate shall be furnished with a statement of the subjects on which he failed, and shall have the right to appeal within twenty days from the time the results of the examinations are announced. Each appellant shall state the answer-papers he desires to have re-examined and the specific reasons therefor. appeal shall be considered unless it is accompanied by the fee prescribed.

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9. The fee for each examination shall be $3.00 payable to the presiding examiner on the first day of the examination. If a candidate desires to write on only one or two subjects, the fee shall be $1.00, if on three or four subjects, $2.00. The fee for each appeal shall be $2.00. If an appeal is sustained the fee shall be refunded.

COURSES OF STUDIES AND SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1912.

Obligatory Subjects:—

GRADE IX.

English Literature: A thorough study of the subject-matter, structure and language of each prescribed selection with practice in oral reading.

Texts for Class Study, 1912:

Coleridge-The Ancient Mariner.

The following selections from English narrative poems:-
The Pied Piper (Browning).

How they brought the news from Ghent to Aix (Brown-
ing).

Michael (Wordsworth).

The Revenge (Tennyson).

The Prisoner of Chillon (Byron).

Hawthorne-Wonder Book.

Dickens Christmas Carol.

Texts for Supplementary Reading, 1912:

Church Stories from Homer,

1. Iliad.

2. Odyssey. Scott-Ivanhoe.

Longfellow-Evangeline.

Palgrave Golden Treasury. The following poems to be committed to memory:

1. Shakespeare-Where the bee sucks, there suck I (II).

2. Shakespeare Come into these yellow sands (III).

3. Milton On his own blindness (XCIV).

4. Ben Johnson-Hymn to Diana (CII).

5. Keats-On first looking into Chapman's Homer (CCX).

6. Scott-Hunting Song (CCLXXXV).

7. Wordsworth-To the Cuckoo (CCLXXXIX).

8. Wordsworth The Reaper (CCXCVIII).

Composition and Rhetoric: Short compositions based chiefly on subjects chosen from the texts prescribed for supplementary reading. Special attention will be given to narrative themes involving the principles treated of in the portion of the text book prescribed for this grade, e.g., unity, arrangement, proportion, introduction and conclusion, characterization and conversation, principles of punctuation, letter-writing. Text book: Manual of Composition and Rhetoric (Gardiner, Kitteredge & Arnold).

Grammar: A general knowledge of the prescribed text book. Text book: The High School Grammar, revised edition.

Writing: The Public School Course continued.

History: The leading events of Canadian and British History. Examinations in History will be so framed as to require comparison and the use of judgment on the student's part rather than the mere exercise of memory. Text books: Duncan-History of the Canadian People; Buckley & Robertson-High School History.

Geography: General geography of the world, with special attention to the geography of Canada and the British Empire. Text book: Dominion School Geography (Gage & Co.).

Arithmetic and Mensuration: A general knowledge of the subject as treated in the prescribed text. Text book: The High School Arithmetic (Morang).

Algebra: Definitions and notation; facility in the use of Algebraic symbols; and in the interpretation of relations expressed by symbols; addition; subtraction; multiplication; division; simple equations of one, two and three unknown quantities and problems solved by the use of simple equations; simple factoring. Text book: C. Smith's Elementary Algebra, Chapters I to IX inclusive.

Geometry: Baker's Theoretical Geometry, Books I and II.

Book-Keeping: A knowledge of business forms, usages and correspondence; book-keeping by single and double entry. Text book: Black's Public School Book-keeping.

Botany and Agriculture: Botany (a) As in prescribed texts, omitting chapters VI, XII, XIV, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, and microscopic work; (b) A knowledge of the structure, function and relation of the root, stem, leaf and flower of typical plants belonging to the orders Ranunculaceae, Cruciferae, Leguminosae, Rosaceae and Liliaceae. Determination of plants belonging to these orders. Field work by each student is essential. Agriculture-As in prescribed text. Text books: Bergen's Foundations of Botany without Key and Flora (Ginn & Co.); Agriculture by James and McIntyre (Morang & Co.). Teacher's references: Spotton's High School Botany, Manitoba edition (W. J. Gage Co.); Coulter's Plant Relations (Morang & Co.); Bailey's Principles of Agriculture (The Macmillan Co. of Canada).

Physical Science: Merchant & Fessenden's High School Physical Science, Part I, revised edition, Chapters I to IX inclusive.

Drawing: Representation, construction, decoration, as in Prang's New Graded Course in Drawing for Canadian Schools, Books I, II, and III. Teacher's reference: The Manual.

Optional Subjects:

Latin:

Grammar: Bennett's Foundations of Latin (pp. 1-85).

Reading: Beresford's First Latin Reader (Blackie), Part I and first 15 selections of Part II.

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