Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Junior Mike Coleman ret urns the answer card to the lab after grading a power builder he has worked on in first hour reading lab. English classes worked on composition, book re- ports, and literature. Academic juniors read The Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn while Mr. James Thomas ' s classes added Letters from an American Farmer. Mrs. Ratchel Gotham ' s first and second hour classes made a film of Huckleberry Finn to supplement their study of the novel. A new concept of teaching grammar through composition was put into use by several teachers, particularly those who taught upperclassmen. As in past years Miss Georgann Shufflebarger ' s sophomore classes studied Silas Marner and made projects including costumes, replicas of homes, and meals of that time. During the study of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar students memorized lines from dif- ferent parts and presented them to the class. One day Mrs. Marcia Mile ' s classes were con- fronted with a piece of driftwood and instructions to write a descriptive theme. They also read Brave New World, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Return of the Native, Mayor of Casterbridge, and Tale of Two Cities. Freshmen, juniors, and seniors spent one day a week in the reading lab under the direction of Miss Mae McCoy doing rate and power builders and working to increase their vocabulary. Communications was the main theme of jour- nalism. Students learned to create advertisements, editorials, TV commercials, features, news stories, and discussions. Speech classes strove to improve their self-con- fidence in front of an audience. They gave choral readings, debates, one-act plays, and told stories. You ' ve made your choice, says villain Mike Isom after The Farmer ' s Daughter, Nancy Mosier, states she would rather die than kiss him. Nancy ' s family, played by Linda Amos, Delphine Owens, and Dan Glover all tied ti5 the couch, wait to Composition, novels, The technical directions on how to set a table, written by senior Karen Forbes for journalism class, read turn edge of saucer down slightly and that is exactly what junior Jim Brown did.

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If looks as if Mr. Harrold might be contemplating the famous Harrold roar as he glances over the make-up tests he gave to ten students who were all absent the some day. of U.S. History classes ' 4f -S V Sophomore Jeanne Terrell fills in the names of the African countries on a map in Mr. John Harrolds world geography class. 1 Citizenship, U. S. History, Government, and Eco- nomics were all required courses to graduate from MHS while there were also several other classes in social studies available. There were Geography, Latin American and Far East History, World History, Sociology, and Psychology. Six students in each of Mrs. Frankie Bailey ' s five U. S. History classes spent approximately one month preparing a panel to give to their class on slavery issues in the U. S. from 1830 to 1860. They read a variety of thirty articles, half of which were anti- slavery and half were pro-slavery. On two days they presented their findings followed by a time for questions. During the time student teacher Mr. James Miller was here U. S. History students gave a news broad- cast on the roaring ' 20 ' s. Each student was as- signed one or two topics to research dealing with the ' 20 ' s giving it as if he were a reporter. An an- nouncer was chosen to moderate the program pre- sented in class. Geography classes concentrated on learning to identify nations of the world as well as the geog- raphic background of each. Studying social and mental behavior was the main objective of sociology and psychology stu- dents. They also had special reports on the social cultures in America and other lands. 17

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be killed in a one-act play put on by the third period speech class. A happy ending to this melodrama — the family was saved by the hero, Ronnie Gray refers to his note cards while giving a book re- view in one of Miss Shuffle- borger ' s sophomore academic English classes. plays, book reports emphasized in English classes Sophomores Elaine Hochstetler, Janice Richards, and Barbara Sweany fill plates for a meal they prepared as their Silas Marner project in one of Miss Georgann Shufflebarger ' s aca- demic English classes. The girls made the costumes they are wearing.