Brush High School - Sagebrush Yearbook (Brush, CO)

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Social Studies Changes With New Instructors Social Sciences prospered after a year of change and adaptation caused by new teachers and new approaches. Only one of the five teachers in the Social Studies De- partment has been here for more than five years, that being Mr. Thomas Woolley who used a new technique in instructing world history. It is termed the post hole method, since its theory assumes that students learn more by looking deeply into a few events in history in- stead of looking at history in an over all view. With this method students do many research papers on men and events, but they aren't required to learn many dates or locations since this information should be acquired as.. .a result of research papers.

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English Classes Read Various Literature English is a required subject at Brush High School for four years and is taught on regular basis as well as functional levels. Students were assigned vocabulary, literature, composition, and grammar. Seniors, instructed by Mr. Neill, studied the modern novel and read such books as Heart of Darkness, Lord of the Flies. Animal Farm, and War and Peace. They also did some writing and studied formal vocabulary. Mr. Neill's freshman classes wrote themes, read Oliver Twist, discussed a unit on poetry, and studied and reviewed capitalization. Miss Walters also taught members of the class of '67. These students made a survey of English literature. When this was accomplished, a theme was written by each student about a phase of literature, some author, or'a movement in literature. Some of the books read were Great Expectations, Lord Jim, Keys of the Kingdom, and Return of the Native. Juniors, Under Mr. Schantz, spent the first semester reviewing grammar techniques and working on vocabulary assignments. During the second semester, students worked mainly on the analysis of American literature. Moby Dick, The Last of the Mohicans. My Antonia, and The House of the Seven Gables were some of the stories which were used. Ivanhoe, The Pearl, Lost Horizon, and Kon-Tiki were some of the books which were required for the sophomores under Mrs. Travis’ guidance. Modem drama, speech, and short stories were also studied. Mrs. Queen's freshman English class went into the topic of mythology. They read Treasure Island and several short stories. The purpose and aims of all of the English classes are to help the students increase their knowledge of the subject, to help in self ex- pression, to broaden vocabulary uses in the everyday language, and to teach students to appreciate outstanding selections in English literature. 25

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Two teachers were instructing for their first year. One, Mr. Darrell Dilworth taught American Problems from knowledge gained through re- search. He used college manuals as the source of lectures and used the regular text as an outline only. This multi-source approach required ex- tensive note taking and studying by the students. Another of the new teachers, Mr. John Shikles, and a veteran of Brush High for four years, Mr. Joe Edson taught Civics to freshman. It was their goal to give our students the background in our government’s system that they will need when they are adults. 27