St Andrews High School - Tower Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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It is an easy choice when everyone in Language Arts Class knows the ZFISWEFS. From David Copperfield to Macbeth, the four years of English at St. Andrew's cover a wide range of literature and writing. Sophomores bringing with them a solid foundation in grammar, learn to recognize and avoid run-on and fragment sentences. Numerous essay assignments, though dread- ed, teach the juniors to organize their thoughts and to reason logically. Since ideas achieve their full value only when com- municated to others, the skill of writing clearly and interestingly is developed in Eng- lish IV. Reading is stressed throughout the four-year program as students span the centuries from the English epic of Beowulf to the modern American drama of Our Town. English Illustrations add interest to a report given in English II. 26 s ..- ' Senior students of English become acquainted with people, plots and places of Shakespeare's England.

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Since knowledge of history is of great importance, the students at St. Andrew's are offered a four year course to enable them to understand the complicated problems affecting our nation and the world. Freshmen in Ancient History learn that western culture had its beginnings in Greece and Rome. Jousts, tournaments, castles and cathedrals fascinate sophomore students of history with the pomp and panoply which mark the Mid- dle Ages. From .the beginnings of the modern world, through the colonial expansions of European nations to the discovery of the New World, junior students find history vibrant with the impact of exploration and development. Looking forward to the day when they will be full-fledged citizens with voting rights, senior students of civics acquire an awareness of their privileges and responsibilities. juniors in United States History participate in a dis cussion on the problems of a divided Berlin. Makati. ak

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Mathematics Algebra Il students suspect that pencil and paper would have been quicker than the slide rule. To freshmen, general math and Al- gebra I present at first only a maze of riddles, but with persistent endeavor, the x's and y's and the bewildering percent- ages are soon mastered. Geometry also has its diliiculties, but sophomores find solutions through logical reasoning. Al- gebra II and senior math broaden upper- classmen's knowledge of the infinite number systems. Those students following the School Mathematics Study Group Program find it both challenging and re- warding, Senior math students graph the function f xxl2x2 using critical points and inflection points There is more than one angle to a problem.