Brush High School - Sagebrush Yearbook (Brush, CO)

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GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION, LITERATURE CONSTITUTE Mr. Schantz completes one of his lectures on the com- position of paragraphs. Mr. Neill checks through some of his freshmen English papers during the day. David Wagers works to complete an assign- ment during his sixth period English IV class.

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SPEECH OFFERED FOR FIRST TIME Speech, offered this year for the first time as a separate class, was taught by Mr. Thomas Woolley, and was opened to juniors and seniors only. As the year started, the class was taught the basics of public speaking. Later, speech construction and presenta- tion were studied. In April, sixteen members of the class attended their first and only speech meet. They returned with one first place pin and eleven excellent ratings. Those who attended The Speech Meet await the results of the first two rounds. Mr. Woolley said that he worked on a small class basis in order to allow more indivi- dual participation. During debate work, partners took notes on what was being said while spectators listened for a point to cross examine.

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FOUR YEAR PROGRAM From the moment a student enters Brush High School, he begins his four year re- quired study of English. Freshmen, under the guidance of Mr. Neill, reviewed the fundamentals of gram- mar and composition and submitted book reports every six weeks. They also made a general study of literature, which included such works as David Copperfield and Treas- ure Island. The sophomores made a more detailed study of grammar with a small amount of work on composition. They also went into a type of fundamental analysis of litera- ture, which took in all types of stories by many noted authors. One of the novels, A Tale of Two Cities, told the story of the French Revolution and the fall of the government of France. For the juniors, under Mrs. Queen, the work consisted of some grammar at the first of the year; speech around the beginning of the second semester; and spelling and lit- erature near the end of the year. Mr. Schantz’s class, for the most part, worked on the analysis of American literature. Some of the stories that were read were The Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick. Mr. Schantz's junior English class prepares the fol- lowing day's assignment. Mr. Neill demonstrates sentence diagramming to one of his freshmen English classes. Miss Walters instructed the seniors and enlarged their vocabularies by having them study the construction and formation of words. Her classes read some literature during the year; but also spent some of the time on composition. One of the books read was Nicholas Nickelbv. by Charles Dickens. Checking over the seniors' assignments was one of the duties of Miss Walters. 19