Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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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.

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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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Translating, conjugating verbs, memorizing vo- cabulary lists, and making projects were some of the activities of Latin students. Second year students worked on projects concern- ing forms of Roman life in which they were inter- ested. Projects ranged from Roman togas and tunics, scrolls, ancient models, ships, chariots, and gardens, to reports and posters on Roman history and mythology. Although Latin is not spoken in any foreign country today it is studied for its value as the basis of the English Language, which derives about 65% of its words from Latin, said Mrs. Phillips, Latin teacher. Latin study includes translating, memorizing SBm ' T ' : ' Z 1 1 Senior Karen Watkins explains and names the parts of the human sl eleton for her second year Latin class. As her special proiect she made the drawing and labeled it in Latin. First period Latin students spend the last few minutes of the period preparing their assignment for the next day. This way they may question Mrs. Phillips on anything they do not under- stand. Sharry and Carol Miller, dressed in authentic Roman togas which they made for their second year project, read from a scroll written in Latin that was made by Craig Mason.