North Little Rock High School - Wildcat Yearbook (North Little Rock, AR)

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There Is Creative English in .lourncil sm Newspaper jargon, silk screen paint, paste, pic- tures, and mounting boards are all permanent fix- tures in the NLRHS journalism department. To laymen the job of turning out the Hi Comet every two weeks, three Satellites a year, and the 240- page 9x12 Wildcat annual may appear to be a simple one. But the appearance is all that is simple. Many long hard hours are spent in yvriting 175,000 words and headlines. And along with the writing are the pictures that complete the Hi comet and make the annual. The photographers of the Publications Department remind one of perpetual motion. It is up to them to see that pictures are taken of every school activity, club, and faculty member, and that is just the begin- ning. The annual alone uses 1,750 pictures. Advertising is indispensable. It helps defer the expenses of the Hi Comet and the Wildcat. It is the responsibility of the journalism classes to sell this advertising and draw up the ad copy. Approx- imately 2,000 column inches of advertising have been sold this year for the Hi Comet, and 551,800 for the Wildcat. v- When the Hi Comet comes out, it is the duty of the exchange editors to see that every advertiser and school with which NLRHS exchanges papers gets a copy. Galley proofs and Van Dyke proofs must be cor- rected, the dummy set up, and cuts secured before the paper and the annual are finally sent to the print- er. Lay-outs must be devised, contracts signed, and a staff appointed to mount pictures, take individual pictures, or lay-out advertising for the Wildcat. In keeping up with the times, the magazine writ- ten by' and for the students has been called the Satel- lite. This magazine typed on stencils, mimeographed, assembled, and sold by the students. Its covers are made by the silk screen process. Mass confusion with all this going on at the same Mist Katya Lou Rllrrcll, Iourmzlirm time? No. Why? The competent staff of editors, writers, ad salesmen, photographers, and artists ac- complish the publication of the Hi Comet, the Wild- cat, and the Satellite. THE LONG IVAITING LINE: journalism rluzlerlfr register the 1,400 Wildcats flhotogmpbed at Ike .vcbool sluzlio.

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Since English is in part a tool subject, its bounda- ries are indefinite. There are, however, certain def- inite goals that the department tries to reach at each of the three grade levels in senior high school. In the tenth grade much of the time is spent on technical grammar in an effort to consolidate what has been offered earlier in this area and to give the student the tools necessary for the work in his junior and senior years. At this level special emphasis is given to spelling, punctuation, correct usage, and sentence structure. By the end of this year the student has covered most of the basic principles of grammar, has written many paragraphs and short themes, and has had an appreciable amount of work in oral composition and vocabulary building. He has also become acquainted with several types of literature-The novel, usually Silas Marner g A Shakespearean play, Julius Cae- sar or As You Like It , and narrative and lyric poetry. In the eleventh grade the student may elect either terminal fgeneralj English or College preparatory fspecialj English. These courses are alike in that both offer a review of grammar with the addition of a few new principles. Practice in correct usage, spell- ing, and punctuation is continued, the composition is more varied with longer and more carefully con- structed paragraphs and themes, and more time is given to oral reporting of different kinds. Both groups study American writers against the background of American History and every effort is made to encourage the student to read widely.'To date the main difference in general English and spec- ial English has been in the method of approach and in the amount of work required. In twelfth grade General English the department seeks to give the student experiences in written and oral English comparable to those he will meet in his every day life. To the special English student it offers preparation for achievement and college en- trance tests, extensive work in vocabulary building and the mechanics of collecting and organizing ma- terials for various types of themes. To both general and special classes the depart- ment offers a survey course in English literature and, as in the preceding grades, it offers a wide variety of oral composition-The panel discussion, the class dis- cussion, book reviewing and story telling. A175 Vfldd fmlfm I-fltflfb 12 Mr. George A. jones, English IU mul ll , E lr A 'i i i s lx 17

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MAKING MAGAZINE COVERS: janirc Goode, jimmy Pclcrxon, Limla Cfasv. Ilnmillon opvmlv ilu' xilb sfrecrl. and Margie Q: Ziff .Q f -H -A lVilxon and Air. W'ood. 4.95. ':5W-YWQ. 4'-fn SPORTS SCRIBE Rvbvff SIMN' 170101115 WU WPI' for Ike primer. MOUNTING PICTl'RliS.' Iidilor Clmrloflv Millwnlcr prvparev lIl0IHIlil1g boards and trifllimles for ilu' mmual. I,NTERVIIfll ING.' Mary l:0Yfl'?IlJIlVj' and Cfefclia Cfummirzgx talk with Mr.