Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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English Curriculum Adds New Course Miss Wells, head of the English Department, helped coordinate the new English-History course. This course combined American Litera- ture and American History, to show the close relationship between the two. Each day, the students in- volved attended a lecture where films, panel discussions and guest speakers were presented. Shortridge started its freshmen writing the day they entered school and never allowed them to stop. As sophomores, they tried vocational themes and as seniors, they wrote term papers. In English VII and IX students polished their creative writing. Those interested in literature are not neglected completely. Students can study such famous books as Beowulf and Canterbury Tales to compare their styles. Advanced stu- dents explore all phases of the writings of such great authors as Shakespeare and Chaucer. Poring over their books, SHS students spend time quietly studying in the library. English class watches the teacher make another assignment. Irrtiij|( 3§W .

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c u s The more than one hundred and thirty courses ottered by the eleven Shortridge departments emphasized the importance of an education in today ' s society and gave the student many choices between required subjects and courses designed tor the extension of the individuals special interests. The Shortridge student strived for excellence in all his work, whether it was in school or out of school. In school the Shortridger wanted to learn more than the bare facts of a subject, he wanted to know the extra facts that make a course exciting. This task fell upon the teachers. They also were re- sponsible for building good character in the people that will make Shortridge famous in years to come. It was teachers and students who helped to make Shortridge the school it is, a progressive school, a school of people. Academics

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Jonnie Laster ponders freshman grammar book problems. Sophomore English students work on a rough draft of their vo- cational theme. Alice Grider and Helmut Giese emote for a dramatics class. 17