Chino High School - El Chasqui Yearbook (Chino, CA)

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.4.......,,-,. .-.. .....-..-i..-i...-im-Q-H14 Chagqui i.L.,.J.. .. Q --S .. ... -..i......Lp ' SOCIAL SCIENCE The study of Social Sciences is one of the most broadening influence: in the life of the high school student. It will increase his capacity for real happiness and sharpen his appreciation for things beautiful and for all persons noble and honorable. It will help him to see the relation of the past to the present, and enable him to see that he has something to give to co- ciety as well as something to get from societyg and that no state can rise above the lifting arm of its average citizen. It should quicken his sympathy and moderate his judgment, make him more judicial in spirit and more charitable in his dealing with his fellow man. The study of Social Sciences should make him a better citizen in a pro- gressive Democracy- He will become more efficient in his service to his home, school, and state, both in the present and the future. His power for social influence and for constructive leadership should be enlarged. He will become a seeker after truth and the right in every public question, rather than a partisan vendor of arguments. He will gain breadth and persneztiv H and at the same time the power of penetration and skill in particular cases. So important does the school board of our district deem the study of these sciences that it has laid down as one of the requirements for graduation a major of three units, composed of one unit of World History. taken in the Freshman year, one-half unit each of U.S. History and Civics in the Junior year, and one-half unit each of Economics ard Soci- ology in the Senior' year. i PRINTING c The department of printing has enlarged somewhat this year- The location in the new Junior High School building has offered new .opportunities and expansion in different lines. ' 'v The Vocational students are required to take four years of print- ing. . The first year they learn the fundamentals of setting type and-' to do some simple printing, the second year they learn to run the pressesg goiirltli gear is taken up with the study of the science and art envolved in e ra e. f f The academic 'students of the department print the Bellboy, the week- -ly school paper, and the El Chasqui. - ' I . ' , . THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT . A 'The English department has two divisions., the vocational and the academic. ' V I ri The purpose in the vocational classes is to correlate English with the students, desired vocation. It also aims to prepare the pupil for citizenship and prepare him to act efficiently in community affairs. It is the purpose of the teacher to guide the reading of the students in order that he may cultivate a taste for better literature. The academic classes are for theistudents who intend to go to college. The course of study covering oral and written work, and literature study, meets all college entrance requirements. The fourth year English aims to prepare the student for Subject A entrance examinations. 'V -l18:l-

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MWVWZW W! V ' N ,f i V W tl U I lls tjm ws LANGUAGES It is our belief that the study of foreign languages should be the source of present and enduring pleasure and inspiration. We-. do not mean that all mental effort can be or should be eliminated, but it should not be drudgery. This latter is too often the case where a student has only two years of French or Spanish or Latin, because of the cxactingcollege entrance requirements which must be met in that short time. They do not leave time for the games, songs, vocabulary contests, spelling matches and other diversions which can bring such fun as we play while learning? This is the reason why we are now offering languages in the eighth grade. Having this added year, it is not necessary to concentrate' on re- quirements, but there is time to enjoy natural progress and acheivement, :ind to learn something of our far-away neighbors and their countries. As the present program develops and our library facilities increase, .we hope to have regular library days on which the foreign language classes will meet in the library, each student reading whatever he wishes about the country in which he is most interested. Then we want fourth year classes added. In Europeancountries the study of a foreign language is begun early and continues through five or six years or even longer. This is necessary for the acquirement of ease in reading and any fluency in speaking. We are convinced that a student who commences the study of a foreign language in the eighth grade and continues it throu-gh high school, adding perhaps a second in the tenth grade, will be graduated with so thorough a knowledge of at least one other tongue that it will be of .practical and cultural benefit to him all his life. Reading and speaking this language should have become a p'leasu're1which we will never willingly relinquish. Unconsciously, one of the greatest aims of education will have been accomplished: that of arousing a lasting interest which will contri- butehto the wholesome enjoyment of leisure hours. How unlimited glare the possibilities forhappy exploration in thewhole literature of another people! A popular scholar and l913iIl'.l1'91' said recently: The breadth of a man's cul- ture IS measured by the breadth of his sympathies. What study can offer a greater opportunity for broadening our sympathies than the study of modernplanguages? The more We learn of a language the more we want to know or the people who speak it and inevitably, the more we understand other people greater becomes our sympathy with them. Every little advance in this direction is a step toward the realization of our nation's Cl'l81'1Sh9d dream of universal peace. 1171-

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4-i-u------ --------- nu- El Chasqui -u-i- -H- --1- ---n-H- - - - -I-H-H+ COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT At one time in the history of education, many pupils left high schooll before graduation to attend business college, to equip themselves for future employment. Parents, pupils, principals and teachers, who saw this hap- pening, proposed the teaching of these subjects in the high school. The privately owned business college had offered intensive training in book-keeping, typewriting, shorthand, and penmanship. By teaching these subjects in the high school during shorter periods of the day and longer periods of time, the pupil is more likely to round out a more liberal education. He lcan study English, Science, Languages etc., at the same time receiving technical training to fit himself for employment after graduation from high school. In regard to the commercial courses offered in Chino High School: Bookkeeping is planned to meet the needs of three classes of students: f 15 those whodesire employmentinthe accounting department of business, 429 those who do not intend to become bookkeepers or accountants but ex- pect to enter business life and desire a knowledge of book-keeping and ac- counting which will be of assistance to them in whatever line of business they may enter and in whatever position they may occupy, C35 those who expect to take courses in accounting and business administration in the university schools of commerce and desire a preliminary training which will serve as a background for these courses. D A Shorthand meets the needs of two classes of students: flj those who lhtend to enter the commercial world as stenographers: f2J those desiring to take notes in college Knot verbatim but reduce the amount of time necessary in note taking.J - ' . Typewriting is the universal writing of business. It israpidly becom- ing the only writing accepted by college professors for themes and written reports. The standard typewriter is a part of the equipment of levery office, business house, and corporation. In the home, the portable type- writer has found its way to a place on the desk beside the- ink and? pens. Learning to typewrite is an essential to every progressive, forward-look- ing, high school student, as longhand writing is to primary school pupils. i , MATHEMATTCS This year brought prospects for the future of the Mathematics de- partment. These prospects consist of the forty-nine first year algebra students, the largest class in algebra in the history of the department. De- spite its size, the class as a whole has progressed further in the allowed time than any of its predecessors. This progress has been partly the result of a new procedure and the use of standardized tests and drills, and part- ly the result of a higher average ability in the class. ,New trigonometry books have been adopted. These text books include Hf1V1gat1on and surveying. It is planed to include a trip to San Pedro and Los, Angeles that the trigonometry students may observe the instruments used in each of the aloove sciences. -U-941-