French: Grammar: High School French Grammar (Fraser & Squair), German: Grammar: First year German (Collar), Lessons I-XXVI. The Examination subjects or Grade IX Diploma are:-English Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, History, Geography, Arithmetic and Mensuration, Algebra, Bookkeeping, Botany and Agriculture, and Physical Science. The Principal of every school having candidates for examination shall, before June 30th, forward to the Department a report stating whether or not, in his judgment, the individual candidates have satisfactorily covered the courses prescribed for this grade in Supplementary Reading, Grammar, Geometry, and Drawing. Obligatory Subjects: GRADE X. English Literature: A thorough study of the subject-matter, structure and language of each prescribed selection with practice in oral reading. 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 and descriptive themes. Work palpably defective in spelling, writing, punctuation or division of paragraphs will not be accepted at examinations. Instruction in the fundamental principles of rhetoric should be given in connection with this study. Text book: Sykes' Elementary English Composition. English Grammar: A general knowledge of the subject as treated in the prescribed text. Text book: The High School Grammar, revised edition. 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 book: Duncan's Canadian People (Western edition); Buckley & Robertson's High School History. Geography: A general knowledge of physical geography as treated in the prescribed text. Text book: Tarr's Elementary Physical Geography. Arithmetic and Mensuration: Text book: Hamblin Smith's Arithmetic (1907 edition). Algebra: A thorough review of the course of Grade IX, continuation of factoring, equations involving the principles of factoring in their solution, highest common factor, least common multiple, fractions, simple equations of one, two and three unknowns, problems based on equations. Text book: C. Smith's Elementary Algebra, Chapters I-XIII inclusive. Geometry: Euclid's Elements, Book I, with easy deductions. Text book: Todhunter and Loney, Book I. Physical Science: Merchant and Fessenden's High School Physical Science, Part I (revised edition), Chapters I-XXIV inclusive. Drawing: Course in Grade IX continued. Text book: 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. 1-168). French: Grammar: High School French Grammar (Fraser & Squair), Reading: Lemaitre Contes Extraits de Myrrha (Heath). German: Grammar: First Year German (Collar). Review of course for Grade IX and Lessons XXVII-LX. Reading: Extracts in first year German. The Examination subjects for Grade X Diploma are:-English Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, Grammar, History, Geography, Arithmetic and Mensuration, Algebra, Geometry, Physical Science, and Drawing. Candidates may also write on one or more of the language options in order to obtain standing in these sub ects. APPENDIX E. CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS. COURSES OF STUDY: STANDARDS VII AND VIII, AND NORMAL SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1912. CERTIFICATES. 1. No person shall be engaged, appointed, employed or retained as teacher in any school unless he holds a valid certificate of qualification granted by the Minister of Education. This regulation shall not apply to persons employed under the provisions of subsection 2 of section 136 of The School Ordinance. 2. Certificates of qualification shall be of the following classes: (a) Interim certificates of the first and second class valid for one year from the close of the school term during which they are issued. Interim certificates may be granted: (1) on the recommendation of the Principal of the Normal School to students who have completed a course in training, (2) under the provisions of regulation 6. (b) Professional certificates of the first and second class valid for life unless suspended or cancelled for cause. Professional certificates of either class may be granted to persons who have taught successful y in the province for at least one year while holding a valid interim certificate of the same class. Persons holding interim certificates obtained on the recommendation of the Principal of the Normal School must also have passed the professional examination prescribed for teachers. (c) Third class certificates valid for three years from June 30th of the year during which the holders thereof obtained diplomas entitling them to admission to a Normal School. Third class certificates may be granted on the recommendation of the Principal of the Normal School to students who have completed a course in training and who have passed the prescribed professional examination. (d) Provisional certificates valid until the close of the school term during which they are issued. A provisional certificate may be granted either upon the application of a board of trustees that has failed to secure a duly qualified teacher, or upon the recommendation of an inspector. A board of trustees in applying for a provisional certificate for any person must satisfy the Department that a duly qualified teacher is not available. The board shall also furnish satisfactory evidence of the character and qualifications of the person for whom the certificate is requested. (e) Kindergarten certificates for principals and assistants in kindergartens. 3. On receiving an application from a board of trustees, accompanied by a recommendation from an inspector, the Minister of Education may, if a qualified teacher is not available, extend a third class or a provisional certificate to the end of the school term following that during which such certificate expired. 4. Persons whose third class certificates have expired and whose teaching has been favourably reported upon by an inspector may have their certificates renewed by passing the examination for Standard VI and the prescribed examination in pedagogy. 5. The Minister of Education may extend the time during which an interim certificate shall be valid. 6. Persons holding certificates or diplomas not obtained in the Province of Alberta may be granted such standing as the Minister of Education may deem them entitled to. Every applicant for an interim certificate under this regulation shall submit to the Department (a) the certificates which he holds, (b) an official statement that such certificates are valid and in force, (c) a certificate of moral character dated within three months of the time of presentation, (d) a recent testimonial from the inspector under whom he last taught. 7. Upon the recommendation of the Principal of the Normal School the Minister of Education may permit any teacher-in-training who has failed to pass the professional examination at the close of the session to write upon such examination at a subsequent session; but in case of a second failure every such person who desires to qualify as a teacher shall be required to attend another session and pass the prescribed professional examination. DIPLOMAS. EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS. Standards VII and VIII. 1. The annual departmental examinations 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. Percentages based upon the candidate's work during the year should be given where possible. |