Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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of the colors. ALM, Audio-Lingual Materials, invaded Miss Ferguson's and Mrs. Norton's French classes, Mr. Lockhart's Spanish classes, and Mrs. McFeeters' German classes this year. The new books, which contained little Eng- lish, were primarily composed of dialogues, stories, and basic sentences to promote con- versation and reading skills. Grammar was taught as it occurred in the different chap- ters. Tapes, provided in the Language Lab- oratory, aided students in pronunciation. ALM has proved successful in its first year at Eastern. Mrs. Ovenhouse's typewriter was a main attraction in the Russian classes this year. What is so special about a typewriter? This one types Russian. Mrs. Ovenhouse not only entertained with her typing but with an ac- count of Russian life from her trip to Rus- sia this past summer. Students found Rus- sian to be a very interesting class this year. Mrs. Walsh patiently taught conjugation of verbs and declension of nouns in Latin classes this year. Her classes not only studied Latin but was a necessity for anyone study- ing English grammar. Many English words have Latin roots and therefore a Latin stu- dent can understand them more thoroughly. So Mrs. Walsh has been serving double time in her classes. .af'1 75p5s E 1- explains the ,,g,,m, MRS. OLGA ovENHoUsE Language Russian sounds strange, but try to type it! Torn. Martin stabs at Russian keys while Glen Stevenson, Mrs. Ovenhouse, Kathy Hack ney, and Ray Smith proof read. 271

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MR. DAVID LOCKHART Language 'Sv vw vs. HUB .aw I A wi-f'3fQ,::3:,q'A .4 3 ' iasjtx,-5? , L - A ' 1 4 V :fa -in A MRS- CAROL WALSH As Gerald Larsen hangs Language French Flag, Miss Mary It's Freitag again and Mrs. McFeeters is relieved as see on the faces of Jerry Fuller and Joy Ronge and is usual. Freitag, in German, means Friday as you can anticipated by teachers as well as students. 26 J

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The social studies teachers presented this traditional subject in a more meaningful and useful way this year. Geography, history, and government classes used current events as practical applications of their studies. Bridging the gap between knowledge and use, these courses stressed creative and original projects. Maps, reports, pictures or other talents such as sewing, wood carving or sculp- turing of geographical features or prominent figures were established in the gradebook as well as assignments. Some history classes read and discussed court cases. Then they compared their decisions with the actual supreme court decisions to see how well they interpreted the constitution. In class, the stu- dents were stimulated by more specific events While the general information was acquired by either outside or textbook reading. VVhether a field trip or editorial occupied a student, the routine of social studies was transformed into individual thought develop- ment as different phases were viewed. l Paul Forkner,Li1m Lemon,a'ad Bill Fitzgerald would rather listen to T6 cords about the Civil War .in Mfr. Defo'rol's class than 'read or study from books ..,.. ,, f t d.. fm ff ,:.,,c, , y. ,..,,V e y i i i't't ' in MR: BERNARD MCCANN MR. CHARLES SWEENEY MR. ED TOWNSEND Social Studies 28 Social Studies Social Studies