# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1926_S56
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56 Proceedings of Thirty-Third Regular Convention,

B. Toe Mopvern Lanauaces.

Enauisu. — To extend the training of the grammar and the
secondary school in teaching English as a tool and the use of English
as a.tool (reading and writing vocabulary) to the point where every
student is able to use grammatically and orthographically correct
choice English in both oral and written work, in unit paragraphs, with
a proper progression of thought, so that both expression and thought
are valued; to promote such an acquaintance with the best products
‘of English Literature, also by cursory and supervised reading, as to
develop in the minds of the students a taste for the best in content
and the choicest in form.

English.

(Analysis. )

Reading-matter not included in project. Practical points to be
emphasized : —

Oral and written composition work in Narration predominating,
in one to three unit paragraphs.

‘ Oral and written composition work in Description, in one to three
unit paragraphs.

Oral and written composition work in Exposition, in one to three
unit paragraphs,

A fairly facile use of the common figures of speech in themes
written under supervision, rather than under direction, of teacher.

Oral and written composition in Oration, Argumentation, and
Debate, in unit paragraphs not exceeding ten.

Early English Literature.

Elizabethan Literature.

A survey of English Literature from the seventeenth to the 4

twentieth century, with emphasis on American field (much collateral
work).
Action. — Adopted as stated.

German. — To give the students at least a reading knowledge and,
if possible, also a speaking and writing knowledge of German, which
will enable them to produce a connected discourse, not only to commit
to memory and thus to deliver it, but also to take part in a conver- 4
sation and a debate with reasonable proficiency; if allowance can also
be made for the esthetic side of the training, let this be done in some
measure, at least, by a survey course in German Literature.

Nots. — The aims given by Prokosch in Klapper, l.c., p.441, are the %
following: “The starting-point of the modern language course in college is 3

easily fixed; it must begin at the very rudiments of the language. Nor .

is it difficult to state, in general terms, the purpose of the most advanced
work of the undergraduate curriculum: it must consist in adequate lin-
gtiistic skill, literary knowledge and feeling, and cultural understanding
to such an extent that the college graduate who has specialized in German’ %