Part 10 (2/2)

_Class I_ (Three hours) Botany: Sorensen's text Written descriptions of about twenty-five plant for to Sorensen's text

_Class II_ (Two hours) Botany: Sorensen's text From ”The Sunflower Fay: Sorensen's text

”Invertebrates” Review from treatise on insects to close of book

_Class III_ (Two hours) Zoology and botany reviewed Plant analysis

Henrichsen's Physics Fro to ”Properties of Air”

_Class IV_ (Three hours) Henrichsen's Physics studied through and revieith related laboratory work Knudsen and Falch's The Human Body I studied and reviewed

The plan of work, as noted, includes botany, zoology, physics, and huy Each subject is taken up and pursued in a consistent manner

In botany plant analysis and structure form the important part of the work A herbariuht very definitely into the daily lives of the children with the intent of opening their eyes to the conditions in nature about the in them an appreciation of the aly and physiology are treated in a similar way They are calculated to enrich the life of the individual by bringing hi forms In physics the child does soets first hand experience to acco the elaborated instruction of the teacher regarding forces, pheno to note in a recitation chiefly devoted to experie used in conversation was carefully scrutinized and that errors were corrected Throughout the curriculum a very definite effort is made to utilize every phase of information possessed by the pupils

IV GYMNASIUM

_Religion_

_Class I_ (One hour) Selected hymns, and chapters from the prophet Isaiah

_Class II_ (One hour) Short survey of church history Brandrud's text used by some of the pupils

_Class III_ (Two hours) Short presentation of the Christian faith and ethics, without text Survey of designated portions of John's Gospel, the Epistle to the Roion is coiven by the city pastors While all of these hly educated, many of them lack the ability to awaken the minds of the pupils to an active interest in the subject No exay and the lack of incentives generally, the members of the classes are listless and inattentive I insert a note that I made in reference to one class in which I was a visitor ”Most of the class was listless all of the time and all of them most of the time” I have on a few occasions heard short and irrelevant remarks made by pupils in response to direct questions by the instructor, and a the pupils it is accounted no reflection whatever if any of their nu the situation under discussion

The work appears altogether void of interest and without profit

It seems almost pathetic that a subject of such importance should have its richness of content dissipated and wasted through lack of incentives or by reason of unsuccessful methods of presentation My observation of the work froh all the classes up to the coymnasium convinces rades are very successful but that the formal, authoritative work in the secondary schools is little ian_

_Class I_ A and B (Four hours) Pauss and Lassen's Reader IV 1

Njael's saga Holberg's The Busybodies and Peter Paars Part of Ohlenschlager's Aladdin Baggesen's Noureddin to Aladdin Hertz's Svend Dyring's House Also in A, Ibsen's Vikings at Helgeland; in B, Ibsen's The Feast at Solhaug; Bjornson's Synnove Solbakken

Landsher Schools About forty pages from Aasen, Janson, Sivle, etc

Fourteen coned exercises: Impressions froarding life and customs in Iceland about the year one thousand; a characteristic of the ”Busybodies” by Holberg; Christiania as a city of manufacture and industry; a comparison between the east and west of Norith references to nature and co I like; Norway as a tourist land; do not put off until tomorrohat you can do today; why could not the Persians conquer the Greeks; the dark sides of city life; what circu as seamen?

_Class II_ R G (Five hours) History of Literature through the literature of the North, folk songs, a collection of Danish and Norwegian ballads, selections fro Romance poetry, some read minutely and the rest cursorily Consideration of Aasen and the Lands and Mortenson's Landsinner's book

Written exercises, frequently on topics of interest Besides all this each pupil ive a discussion on a self-selected theme before the class

_Class II_ L-H (Six and five hours) Holberg's Erashed uden Stros) History of literature to about one thousand, eight hundred Shakespeare's Julius Caesar In the Lands folk songs) Old Norse: Nygaard's beginner's book Soard Twelve written exercises on important literary, historical, and industrial subjects

_Class III_ R G (Four hours) History of literature froly selected writings of Holberg, Ohlenschlager, Wergeland, Welhaven, Asbjornsen and Ibsen In the Landss of Vinje In the Old Norse read the reinner's book