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Manuals
Conduct of Christian Schools:
FIRST PART - Chapter 6
SCHOOL PRACTICES AND THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY ARE TO BE CARRIED OUT
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CHAPTER 6
Spelling
Teachers will take care to teach spelling to the students who are in the sixth level of round hand writing and of Italian script. The Director will see to this. The manner of teaching them spelling will be to have them copy letters written by hand. They will copy especially such things as it may be useful for them to know how to write and of which they might later have need, such as notes of hand, receipts, agreements with workers, legal contracts, bonds, powers of attorney, leases, deeds, and official reports. This is done so that they may impress these things on their memories and learn to write similar ones.
After they have copied these kinds of writings for some time, teachers will have them make and write by themselves some notes of hand, receipts, agreements with workers, some bills for different kinds of work done by the hour, bills for goods delivered, estimates by workers, and the like.
Teachers will also oblige them at the same time to write what they remember of the Catechism which has been taught them during the week. They will be obliged to write especially what has been taught them on Sundays and holy days, or on Wednesdays just before a holiday, if there has been no holy day in the week. If it appears some of them are unable to do this, the teacher will have them write the lesson of the Diocesan Catechism which they have learned by heart in the past week. They will be obliged to write this lesson from memory and without looking at the book. For this purpose, they must have a notebook, which they will bring to be corrected Tuesday and Friday or any other day on which arithmetic is taught. The students must do this so that teachers may correct the examples of arithmetic and the mistakes in spelling in what they have written. Teachers will, in their own writing, add the letters which students have omitted or correct the errors after having drawn a line through the latter.
Teachers will require that the students whose writing has been corrected for spelling rewrite it at home. They will be obliged to make a fair copy, just as the teacher had corrected it. The next time that their spelling is corrected the teacher will carefully check if they have acquitted themselves of this duty.
Spelling will be taught in the following manner also. The teacher will dictate, for example, Dieu tout puissant et misericordieux. All will write; one student alone, while writing, will spell the syllables aloud. Di-eu tout puis-sant et mi-se-re-cor-di-eux. If the student has said anything wrong in spelling, for instance, saying mis instead of mi-se, the teacher or whoever is dictating will correctly repeat the letter or the syllable that this student has said incorrectly. The one dictating will be careful to indicate where periods and commas are to be placed.
After what has been dictated has been written, the teacher will make one student spell aloud what the others have written. All the others will spell along with the reader in a low voice.
The teacher will take care that this student who is spelling aloud state when there are acute or grave accents, and name the letters upon which these accents are to be placed; and state when there is a period, a colon, a semicolon, a comma, an exclamation point, or an interrogation mark. Those who have made mistakes on their papers will correct the mistakes for themselves.
The students will write their spelling on the back of their paper. They will write the fair or corrected copy in the paper folded in squares.
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