Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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Miss Evelyn R. Norccn Latin: Latin Club 'Must you peer over my shoulder?” “It was the best of limes, it was the worst of times” . . . essays . . . vocabulary quizzes . . . tragic flaw . . . Speech Arts’ Veterans Day assembly . . . letters . . . “suggested” summer reading . . . writing samples in class . . . criticisms . . . Was Hamlet really mad? . . . grammar . . . “May borrow a piece of white paper? . . . prompt (?) return of papers . . . Transcendentalism . . . poetry notebooks . . . lay readerisms: specific examples, concrete ideas, no generalizations . . . missing the point! The main function of the t-nglish Department of Belmont High School is the development of the student's analytical and expressive abilities. Before any other subject can be successfully studied, proficiency must be attained in English. Supplementing the English program is developmental reading, which is required of all high school students. This course aids the student in the basic abilities of speed reading and reading comprehension. Mrs. Muriel E. Morrissey High point Miss Barbara F. Currie Mrs. Leah S. SchifF in her Developmental Reading class 10

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CURRICULUM CURRICULUM “The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”

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OF EACH MAN ARE THE MAN HIMSELF Mrs. Brenda M. Keegan Shakespeare Club Miss Mary G. Slater Ski Club Mrs. Priscilla Starr Highpoint In addition to required English are two electives which develop expressive talents: creative writing, which stresses written expression, and speech arts, which stresses oral expression. Thus, by teaching the student to analyze opinions of others and to coherently express his own ideas, the English Department seeks to facilitate the success of the student in his endeavors, both educational and vocational. Mrs. Orian H. Grccnc Senior Play; Dramatic Club; Creative Writing: Speech Arts Mrs. Brenda B. Moseley