Lenoir High School - Bearcat Yearbook (Lenoir, NC)

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english Essays, descriptions, and argumentations are all part of English IV. Basic writing skills are utilized by Junior English students in com¬ posing original short stories. ksaji mw , j IPO ' Miss Sandra Black teaches English and History and serves as ad¬ visor for the Bearcat Editorial Staff Mr Clifford R. Huffman teaches English IV. Mrs. Pauline M. Laney teaches English II and IV and serves as advisor for the Marshals. Mrs. Claudine C. Silver teaches English II and serves as advisor for the Bearcat Bards.

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English classes are more than austere English seems to imply. This subject, compulsory for everyone, is sometimes enjoyable, sometimes not; sometimes difficult and at other times too simple. The dread of English might fade were it not for required reading lists, some¬ times know as corresponding litera¬ ture , such as Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and The Scarlet Letter. Diagramming sentences, learning rules of punctuation, and perfecting one ' s knowledge of parts of speech are vital for the mastery of grammar. The English staff considers vocabu¬ lary study of prime consideration. There¬ fore, from the first word list come such lucid statements as The adamantly abstemious man of business acumen and aesthetic tastes was susceptible to abstruse aberrations in which he be¬ came acrimonious to his allies, who tried to abet him by fixing him in a re¬ viving abeyance . Yikes! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him ' ' is a familiar line to sophomore English students.

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w m Conversacion es importante en Espanol. foreign language Si, no. Si, Spanish is a language often heard echoing through the halls of Lenoir High as students recite verb conjugations. No, it is not always in the most perfect form. Struggling estudiantes take heart when they are rewarded for a job well done with magnifico! Mr. Lorenzo and Miss Locke teach classes of first through fourth-year students. Those students who toured Mexico this past summer gained more knowledge by hearing the natives speak. For this school year Mrs. McGowan has only one Latin class, a course of third year Latin. On the agenda of actvi- ties scheduled are translating Cicero ' s orations, selections of Ovid, and mythology passages, as well as Latin poetry. At midterm students hand in a booklet of examples of figures of speech collected from the world ' s literature and oratory. Students find it easy to do as the Romans do in Mrs McGowan ' s Latin class. Estudiantes trabajan mucho en escribir. 24