34 Prussia and the German System of Education. 



Class I. Two hours. A compendium of the history of 

 the Christian Church, particularly after the apostolic age. 

 History of the Reformation. Review of the Bible. Com- 

 mitting to memory psalms and hymns continued. 



German Language. 



Class VI. Four hours. Exercises of speech. Stories 

 narrated to the children and repeated by them. After 

 learning to write, these stories are written upon the slate. 



Class V. Four hours. Exercises in orthography. Ety- 

 mology begun. 



Class IV. Four hours. Exercises in orthography and 

 style. Every week a short composition is written on some 

 subject which has been narrated. 



Class III. Grammar continued. 



Class II. Four hours. Original compositions, wnich are 

 corrected during the recitations. Syntax commenced. 



Class I. Three hours. Compositions on historical sub- 

 jects. Essays written at home, and corrected in the class- 

 room. Syntax continued. 



Latin Language. 



Class IV. Three hours. Declensions of nouns, adjec- 

 tives, and pronouns learned. Examples learned by heart, 

 and others written as an exercise at home. Auxiliary 

 verbs conjugated. 



Class III. Four hours. Comparison of adjectives. Re- 

 gular verbs conjugated. 



Class II. Four hours. Irregular verbs. Syntax begun. 

 Translation from Latin into German. 



Class I. Six hours. Grammar continued. Written ex- 

 ercises at home and in the class. Every four weeks 

 an extempore exercise is written, which the teachers 

 correct out of school hours. Cornelius Nepos read and 

 construed. 



