Frank W Cox High School - Talon Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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World Literature Course Supplements Normal English Curriculum Mrs. Voss' fifth bell class of twelfth-grade English students, commonly known as the Honors' Class, participates in a classroom discussion, known as everyone participates and everyone leorns. 20

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Mrs. McBride, School Nurse. Mrs. Tayloe, Registrar. Mrs. Seacrist, Bookkeeper Mrs. Smith, Secretary. 19

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There are many things a student cannot escape — exams, report cards, term papers, and English. On every side the rules, excep- tions, spelling, definitions, voices, tenses, and usage, frame the impressive, monstrous structure of language that puzzles the imagination and reason, says because to why? , and hems individual thought and expression within a prison of grammatical law, or so it seems. Actually this sometimes interesting, always challenging, often dull framework provides the basis for the dis- covery of an infinite realm of thought and feeling in the literature of the English- speaking people of the world. The panorama of American and English literature was pre- sented in introductory sketches to the under- classmen and in their wide, inclusive scopes to juniors and seniors respectively. The honors courses taught, along with advanced curriculum, the intangibles of application, discussion, and the great art of thinking. They were often run on the seminar theory where student participation was of the great- est importance. World Literature, around which a paradox of contradictory rumors and grumbles continually whirls, extended the interest and understanding of the students to the writings of the literary masters of other countries. The art of self-expression was cul- tivated behind the podium in speech classes, on stage in the make-believe realism of drama and dramatic technique in the drama classes, and in the creative exercises and activities of Advanced Composition. Front Row: Miss Stallings; Second Row: Mrs. Voss, Mrs. Pickerel; Third Row: Mr. Deviney, Mrs. Broughton, Miss Sanford, Mrs. Davis; Fourth Row: Mrs. Hoffman, Miss Keith, Miss Short; Bock Row: Mr. Garrett, Miss Rooker. 21