Normandy High School - Saga Yearbook (Normandy, MO)

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Discussing the last World War are Don McKabney and Barbara Chambers as they compare the maps before and after. Social problems bring up a lot oi questions: some need proof Here Melton. Bergerdine, and Westaver check up. Studying United States history of today and yesterday, students read current magazines. In citizenship questions oi the day are debated by iunior high students. out an excellent knowledge of it, progress is im- paired. From sex euth through the twelfth grades. grammar. composition, and literature comprise the study of our language, hut classes along the way take up other phases. including library research work. current event discussions. story-telling, vocali- ulary drills. extemporaneous speeches. and old- fashioued spell-don ns. An English course is yery llexihlcz thus it can he of ex en more practical xalue than was originally intended. Besides heiug one of the most essential courses. it has lmeconie one of the most absorbing and valuahle in the high school curriculum. Training in social studies is necessary if we wish to prevent another war, for through history. psy- chology. sociology, and goxernment the basis of a peaceful world can be planned and executed. Sex with and eighth-grade social science and ninth- grade citizenship pave the way for broader studies of the human forces that make up the world. The generation now engaged in pursuing these studies will. in the future. he gixen an opportunity to put them into practice. Hon well they have learned their lesson may effect the fate of the world. Page Twenty-Three

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Exhibits showed Spanish students' handicrafts of the people whose language they study and the geography of their lands. Dick Lindner and Carol Kroenig examine a map of France with special attention to Bretagne. subject of the day's reading The English classes of the Junior high study sentence syntax and construction through diagraming. inguififfi, nihdforiand C ' OREIGN languages have gone to War! Be- cause of the interest centered on France and her possessions, especially in North Africa and America, French classes read material on geography, resources, governmental policies, and history of these areas instead of the usual literary classics. Spanish courses, using the Armyis method, concentrated on conversational Spanish as Well as learning the songs, stories, and jokes of our southern neighbors. Study of life and culture of our Latin friends was emphasized. German students prepared to use the language Use of the card catalog and reference books IS essential in the senior high English literature courses to read documents of scientific knowledge and the great German classics banned in Germany today. Ancient Roman conflicts, as studied in Latin, can never seem dull While our forces are lighting on the same battlefields and where our generals face the same problems of strategy and shipping that Caesar and Antony had to solve in their day. A nation that is to be a post-war dominant power must equip itself with the proper tools for eo- operaling with its brother nations, and language is one of the rnost important tools. English, of course, is basic in any field, for With- Paqe Twenty-Two

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Walter Harrison and Leonard Stephens do their lab work in physics-good training tor war industries or ior use in the services. me fAemafiCian5 55 ANGE 10-347. Speed 27 knots. Without some scientific knowl- edge, a real grasp of ballistics is impossible. It is easily seen that in War- time science takes on extra importance. It does not seem so abstract when we hear every day of its actual and effective use. However, high school sciences are an ex- cellent basis for peace-time engineering, a field, which in the reconstruction period following the War, will be much broader and more important than ever before. Junior science is the initial science course. It introduces to the mind the sci- entific Way of thinkingfanalysis, cause and result, trial and error. ln general sci- ence this beginning is developed, and all fields of science touched on. It is, in this Way, a basis for any physics, chemistry, or biology. Biology, generally a tenth-grade subject, is a study of plant and animal life. Besides ordinary classwork, experiments and proj- ects are not uncommon. Chemistry is a study of chemicals, their properties and potentialities, While physics deals With the inorganic. Senior science touches on more everyday thingsffirst-aid, health, meteor- ology, navigation V- subjects that every- body can use. Victory gardening, now seen in all parts of this Fundamentals oi biology. physics. Senior science students, who touch area IS explained by Mr. LaRoge to and chemistry are studied biology in this varied course, watch bl0109Y students. in general science. butterfly emerge from a cocoon. ...Vee wzsrmwemxs-mraMwawwuumnm,rnmm4wwM,aawmww1mnxmvuwn .14