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Appendix C.

MODEL COURSE OF INSTRUCTION FOR VERNACULAR SCHOOLS.

I.

CHINESE.

The National Reader is the text book recommended, one volume for each of the first 6 Standards. A great deal of time is left to the discretion of the teacher. Composition should be practised in every Standard. Letter-writing should be begun in Standard IV. Mencius should be read in Standard VII.

II.

GEOGRAPHY.

STANDARD IA.

(Six months' work.)

To understand a plan of the immediate neighbourhood of the School.

A.-Recapitulate.

STANDARD IB.

(Six months' work.)

B.-To understand a map of either the City of Victoria or Kowloon, as

may be required by the circumstances of the School.

[Note.-Attention need not be drawn to places, the names of which are unfamiliar to

the majority of the pupils.]

STANDARD II.

A.-Recapitulate.

B. To recognize the flags of the following countries :-England, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Holland, Portugal, United States, China, and Japan; and to know where these places are on the inap.

[Note. Attention should be drawn as far as possible to the ships in the harbour flying

these flags.]

C. To understand a map of the Island of Hongkong.

STANDARD III.

A.-Recapitulate the work of Standard II.

B.-To know the correct titles in Chinese, and the chief functions of:-

(a) His Excellency the Governor.

(b) The Honourable the Colonial Secretary.

(c) His Honour the Chief Justice.

(d) The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.

(e) The Honourable the Registrar General.

(f) The Honourable the Director of Public Works.

(g) The Postmaster General.

(h) The Police Magistrate. (2) The Inspector of Schools. (i) The Sanitary Board.