2. Exercises in copying selected words from the blackboard. 3. Dictation of sentences containing selected words. GRADE G.-Analysis of words by sounds and by letters. Exercises in copying and dictation, selected from the First Reader, to be taken in the following order: 1. Same class of words as used in H Grade. 2. Long vowel sounds, indicated by silent h. 3. Long a, e, o, indicated by doubling these letters. 4. Short vowel sound, indicated by two or more final consonants. 5. Short vowel sound, without indication. GRADE F.-Continued exercises in spelling, copying and dictation; the material to be taken from the Second Reader, and to be used in the same order as in G Grade. 6. Distinction between and ss. 7. Exercises with such combinations of consonants as are easily confounded. GRADE E.-Continuation of the former exercises; material to be taken from the Third Reader. 8. Homophonous words. GRADE D: 9. Letters and combinations of letters not frequently used. 10. Abstract nouns and adjectives used as nouns. GRAMMAR. The instruction in Grammar in the District Schools shall consist chiefly in a systematically arranged series of oral and written exercises in the correct use of the language, the material to be taken from the object and reading lessons of the respective Grades, with proper regard to the distinct and correct pronunciation, and to the orthography of the words used in the written exercises. Technical terms are to be avoided as much as possible. GRADE F: 1. Distinctión of nouns, adjectives and verbs. 2. Singular and plural form of nouns in connection with the articles and other definitive adjectives. 3. Accusative case of nouns, used as the objects of transitive verbs. 4. Genitive case of nouns in describing the parts of objects. 5. Dative case of nouns, used as the objects of certain selected verbs. 6. Comparison of adjectives. 7. Conjugation of verbs in the present tense of the indicative mode, active voice. 8. Personal pronouns in the nominative, dative and accusative cases. 9. The following prepositions in connection with nouns and pronouns, viz.: durch, für, gegen, um, bis, mit, nach, bei, von, zu, aus, in, an, auf, über, unter, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen. 10. Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative sentences. II. Use of the period, the interrogation point, and the exclamation point. GRADE E: 1. Review of the F Grade Course. 2. Distinction of the subject, object and predicate, in simple sentences. 3. Exercises in the different cases of nouns, in connection with adjectives. 4. Exercises in the different cases of personal and interrogative pronouns. 5. Conjugation of verbs in the present, past and future tenses of the indicative mode, active voice. 6. Exercises with a number of selected verbs and adjectives governing the dative case. 7. Exercises with a number of selected verbs, requiring an object in the accusative, and one in the dative case. 8. Exercises in the derivation of words: a. Formation of nouns by means of the suffixes, er, in, chen, lein, ei. b. Formation of adjectives with the suffixes, en, ern, ig, isch, lich, bar, sam, hast. c. Formation of compound words, and exercises in the definition of such words. GRADE D: 1. Review of the F and E Grade Course. 2. Formation of abstract nouns from the roots of verbs, or from verbs and adjectives, by means of the suffixes, e, ung, niß, sal, heit, keit, schaft, thum. 3. Formation of verbs from nouns and adjectives, using the suffixes, en, eln, ern, iren. 4. Exercises in the derivation of words, by using the prefixes, ge, be, er, ent, emp, ver, zer, mis 5. Compound words and their definitions. 6. Conjugation of verbs in all the tenses of the indicative mode, active voice. 7. Exercises with a number of selected words and adjectives governing the dative case. 8. Exercises with verbs requiring two objects. 9. Exercises with all the prepositions. COMPOSITION. GRADE F.-Description of subjects treated in the Object Lessons. Description of pictures. Reproduction of stories. GRADE E.-The same kind of exercises. Transposition of poetry into prose. GRADE D.-The same kind of exercises as in Grades F and E. REMARK -The pupils of Grade D should be frequently required to write descriptions of objects and pictures in the form of letters. WRITING. GRADE H.-They shall be taught to write, in neat and legible hand, on their slates, the letters, and any of the words which they are required to spell. GRADE G.-They shall be taught to write with pen and ink all the small letters, and to combine them into words. L GRADES F, E AND D.-They shall be taught to write with pen and ink, neatly and legibly, all the capitals, and words and sentences from copy and at dictation. INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS. STUDIES. GRADES B AND C.-Reading, Declamation, Orthography, Penmanship, Grammar, Composition, Translation. GRADE A.-Reading, Declamation, Orthography, Grammar, Composition, Translation, an abstract of the History of German Literature. · BOOKS. GRADE C.-Uniform Writing-Books, BODE's New German Fifth Reader. GRADES A AND B.-Grammar, BECKER'S Leitfaden (for teachers), BODE's New German Fifth Reader (for Grade B), PLATE'S Praktische Deutsche Sprachlehre, Part Second (for pupils); HAILMAN's Literary Reader; also for AngloAmerican pupils, OTTO's Short Course in German and HAILMAN'S Reader for beginners. DIRECTION TO TEACHERS. GRADE C.-Composition and Object Lessons.-Pupils shall be taught to write a number of descriptions, stories and letters, and to transform poems into prose. Reading Twenty-four Lessons.-Pupils shall review the rules for the use of silent letters, and they shall be taught to spell any word, and to write, at dictation, any sentence in their Reading and Object Lessons, Compositions and Translations, and to spell such words as are alike or similar in sound, but different in orthography and signification. Grammar.—They shall review the Course of the District Schools, and shall be taught to analyze simple, compound and complex sentences, and to parse the words therein. In their translations they shall be taught the similarities and differences of the English and German Grammars. Translation.-Lessons from their Reader. GRADES A AND B.-Translations shall be made, in part, from the Exercises in PLATE'S Grammar. After the Compositions have been corrected, the Model Compositions prepared by the teachers are to be translated into English. In the same manner the English Compositions, after being corrected, shall be translated into German from the Model Composition furnished by the English teachers. COURSE OF STUDY IN SCHOOL FOR DEAF-MUTES. FIRST YEAR. LATHAM'S First Lessons for Deaf-Mutes. SECOND YEAR. JACOB'S Part Second (for Deaf-Mutes). THIRD YEAR. KEEP'S School Stories. CORNELL'S First Steps in Geography. Penmanship. FOURTH YEAR. GOODRICH'S Child's History of the United States. Penmanship. Arithmetic-Simple Rules. Composition-Simple Sentences. Object Lessons. FIFTH, SIXTH AND SEVENTH YEARS. CORNELL'S Intermediate Geography. SWINTON'S History of the United States. WHITE'S Intermediate Arithmetic. Penmanship. Composition. Drawing. Object Lessons. [The more Advanced Pupils to use the usual Text-Books in the Schools.] TEXT-BOOKS USED AND COURSE OF STUDY PURSUED IN THE CINCINNATI HIGH SCHOOLS. GRADE D. 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