Advance High School - Advancer Yearbook (Advance, MO)

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Above: Looking at the first completed copy of The Avalanche is creative writing student. Tim Kidd. Marty Rodgers and Nancy Towery enact a play in which girls ask boys to date. Above Center. The speech class performed the play for fifth and sixth graders. Senior Jo Cummins, Above Right, vicar- iously lives the part of Hester Prynne while reading The Scarlet Letter in novel class. Reading their parts in a play aloud to their fellow eighth graders, Far Right, are Patti Veale. Phyllis Redman, and Mitzi Whittaker. Right: Mrs. Lois Vavak. junior high Eng- lish teacher. and Mrs. Jan Morgan, senior high Eng- lish instructor. compare notes on the day's activi- ties. i . r N. Q Q I .M

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Psychology Explores The Psychic World Juniors and seniors had a freer hand in selecting social studies courses. Robert Kirkpatrick, high school instructor, offered four semester courses. They were psychology - government, the history of slavery and the Civil War - contemporary issues. Sophomores had a semester of world geography, and then switched to world history. Junior high social studies, taught by Earl Reinhart, gave students an insight into how different cultures and people adjust to their environment. The students also studied the Missouri and the U.S. Constitutions.

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QP Q .,,, 5 aff, ,f ,f AM' ,,,,, ,.1 Writing Class Publishes A Literary Magazine Since English lll was dropped as a requirement for graduation, Mrs. Jan Morgan replaced the course with four new semester electives. New classes added to senior high English were developmental reading and vocabulary, practical English, creative writing, and critical evaluation of the novel. The creative writing class launched a literary magazine, The Avalanche, a collection of the students' poems, short stories, and tables. Mrs. Morgan stressed vocabulary heavily in her classes, using Bergen Evans' audio-visual aids. Mrs. Lois Vavak's junior high reading and spelling classes worked in groups, with one student from each group acting as teacher. Her junior high English classes wrote and performed their own skits and plays, in addition to reading and performing other writers' materials. Speech class, also taught by Mrs. Vavak, utilized new textbooks entitled Patterns in Communications. The speech class performed a one-act play, Girls Ask Boys For Dates for the Fifth and Sixth Grades. 67 zz ,,,