Cedar Falls High School - Tiger Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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01 octal Studies Through three years of soc1a1 studtes C F students learn to cope w1th the complex hfe of today Sophomore students study World Hlstory In tlus course they learn to adjust themselves to the fact that we share the earth w1th many other people The course IS bullt around a selectlon of events and problems and uses the human approach to people w1th emphasls on personal values Both past and present aspects of a problem are emphastzed In the tumor year the student has one semester of Amerxcan H1story and one semester of Arner1can Government. The herttage of our nauon s past IS xmportant because the present and the future are bullt upon th1s past To better understand our hernage the Juruors have a government course through whxch they gam an tmderstandtng and a workable knowledge of our government Semors take Problems m Democranc Lwmg. Thls course IS dedtcated to a four pomt phtlosophy to help the 1nd1v1dual understand hlm self to help htm xmprove h1s relatxonshxp w1th other people to understand the problems that parallel 11v1ng m a democracy and to develop the abthty to make mtelhgent and pracucal decxstons m solvmg these problems QQ? QW Z f Larry Jones pomts out an mterestmg World HISIOIY 1tem to Sharon Bxgelow and Karen Cox Nancy Burke and Marcla Chrxstensen examme a tax chart m Government. 21 W V X f fl ff T

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A sophomore Enghsh class rn oneof1ts more lelsurely moments Enghsh In the Htgh School Fnghsh Department the stl dent IS taught not onl the bas1c fundamentals of Enghsh grammer but also an apprecranon for lxtera ture. The objecuves of the sophomore EI'Ig1lSh pro gram are to mcrease readmg speed, lmprove com prehenston, and expand the sophomore s vocabulary and h1s general knowledge through readmg ex pemences The objectrves for the course ln Amerlcan llterature center around four mam dlV1S1OTlS readmg wrmng speaklng and hstenmg In readmg the a1m IS to gam a greater under standlng of Amerxcan trad1t1on and to know the out standmg hterary f1gures and works of our countrw Ln wrmng the a1m1s to review the essennal prmc1ples needed 1n burldmg sentences and paragraphs Students work to develope the speaklng sktlls and stress the lmportance of parhamentary procedure Students are taught to 1lSIEl'l w1th an open nund and to use con strucuve Judgment The semor Enghsh course IS electxve and 15 ,ANR therefore geared to the needs of the college bound ji' Lerlov Satre checks his Amerxcan Lxt book m to Mrs Herde senlor One of the mam objectlves IS to lI'ISI1u tn the student an appreclatron of good hterature and to gam a thorough background rn Enghsh hterature The fundamentals of the mechamcs of wrmng are revrewed as thev are needed There IS a qulck but thorough rev1ew of grammer The culmlnatron of the enure year IS the wrlnng of a research paper whlch embodles everx tlung leamed 1n the class Senor Enghsh s udents Judy Jensen Lannv Robbms and Ixancxe Wtlson dramat1ze an Engllsh plat

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Dale Diamond and Betty Han sen examme their findings in B1olog5 class Barb Baxter and Tom Hansen concentrate on a Chemistryex periment Science One of the aims in the teaching of b1010g' IS to guide the student mto a better understanding and BDDIBCIBIIOII of life about him. In biology we study plants bacteria the ammal kmgdom and the human body We are all mterested m how our organs are made and what makes them tick A course l.I'l lugh school btology can provide this information and a background for tmderstandino the developments in the realm of biological science Chem1stry is the branch of science that studies the composition of substances and the changes that take place 1n them One of the most interestmg features of studymg chemistry is that you have anactual chance to observe some forty chem1cal experlments to see firsthand many of the tlungs that take place when everydav chemicals are brought together A year s work in chemistry IS full of interest and promise For every student No matter what his future work may be he can be sure that a sound knowledge of chemistry w111contr1bute to his success Physics deals primarily with the various forces and forms of energy 1n our environment such as the widely diverse fields of mechanics heat sound hght electricity, and atomic and nuclear energy A lugh school course in physics IS an excursion into the realm of the physical sciences and it should Q satisfy the curiosity of students--the hows and why of science, Wayne Madsen, Carl I-iig,hgen- boten, and Paul Steele study the lamp board in Physics Lab. mm of ,n on nmuusus rut trrtct ur ,H nu ummm comm 1 , ' , . -QI PS 4.,...J62 Y Nancye Wilson exhibits her project at the Openliouse , 22