Hillsdale High School - Echo Yearbook (Jeromesville, OH)

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l A few highlights of the freshman students' year were speed reading, reading "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, and putting on a play of "Romeo and Juliet. Another interesting highlight was library procedures taught by Mrs. Murray, librarian. "Julius Caesar." by William Shakespeare, was acted out by the sophomore class. Other selections read and studied by the sophomores were "Silas Marner" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." In addition to their literature studies, grammar played an important part. Both freshman and sophomore classes covered an extensive study of newspapers under the direction of English teacher, Mr. Robert Lavengood. Develops U nderstandin, The junior class, accompanied by Mrs. Petty, traveled to Columbus on January 12, to view the movie production of "The Sound of Music." During the year, they studied the various aspects of American Literature and authors. The second semester's work included a course in children's literature, as well as a research paper. The senior class, under the instruction of Mr. Robert Haxton, studied the various ages of English liter ature. One six-weeks period was devoted ro the study of "Macbeth, " Students planning to enter college next fall were required to write a 4000-6000 word research paper.

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rf The goal for the French class student is to acquire good reading, writing, and speaking ability of the . , . .-raw.. my Latin class involved the study ofthe grammatical fundamentals and vocabulary needed to prepare stu- dents for acquiring a reading knowledge of Latin.1 It al- so included the fundamentals of mythology. A prac- tical application ofthe subject came in their studies of English, since the English language is derived from many Latin words. -Wim.. ,r W, . , aff, , language. It involves the basic fundamental study in ' addition to language laboratory work. Pictured is the French I class using the language lab facilities. l 2 1 ThegKn0wledge 0 ia Languag Speech class, instructed by Mr. Robert Haxton, prepared students to speak well in front of audiences. Eulogies, arousing speeches, and speeches involving some type of movement were covered. Panel discus- sions and debates were studied. Each student was re- quired to give a ten-minute play cutting during the second semester of the school year. The speech students were also in charge of making the announcements on the public address system daily. Greg Likes explains the care and operation of a shotgun in a short demonstration speech.

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Advanced math students started the year studying solid geometry with cones, cylinders, and rectangular solids. Later, trignometric functions, logarithms, and explanation of graphs were introduced. Mr. Nelson has found that sending students to the black-board to work equations makes math more enjoyable and easier to understand. ml Geometry students learned the advantages of a knowledge of theorems, postulates, and proofs, and a limited amount of solid geometry was included in their studies. The students were also assisted in their work by the use of compasses, straightedges, and protractors. d d ix 2 Pr ' L 2-i t H ,ms l e , -V an-rs. f ' Math Students Challenged by New Approach. Algebra Il students applied their two years of high school math in learning about functions, sequences, linear functions, quadratic equations, parabolas, and Algebra I students have learned the basis ofa four-year imaginary numbers. Much work was done with mathematics program. They studied sets, subsets, proportions equations, formulas, and graphs. The students pre- factoring, simplifying formulas, equations, graphs, square pared for next yeafg advanced math, H roots, absolute values, and real numbers. I4