St Louis High School - Cavalcade Yearbook (St Louis, MI)

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‘We Encountered New Ways Of Projecting Our Thoughts' In addition to the customary “noun” and “verb” information which is incorporated in the regular English class, students found new ways to project their feelings in more extensive and self-governed English courses. Public speaking rules such as posture, breathing, and appearance were taught to basic speech classes. Throughout this semester course, students gained valuable formal speaking experience as they wrote and presented original speeches. Plays from every era were read and interpreted by advanced speech students. In this semester course, the class learned techniques and characteristics of reader’s theater. Perhaps Spanish classes gave students the newest way to project their thoughts, for those enrolled learned a foreign language fluently. Sadness and joy, and love and hate were expressed in poetry, plays, and short stories written by young originals in composition I and II and in creative writing classes. Top: The one aim Felix Ortiz has for his students is that they “measure up to the many rules” in the Spanish language. Center: Basic and advanced speech teacher, Mrs. Leatricc Warmbrunn, assists Darrell Dringcnbergby explaining the answer. Right: Sandy Komperda learns the correct accents as she uses the headsets in Espanol. Opposite page top: English teacher, Mrs. Gloria Walters, changes the bulletin board as her class is in a world of daydreams. Center: Mrs. Walters enjoys reading the creative stories and poetry written by her creative writing classes. Right: Spanish students work on their lesson for the day under the guidance of their teacher, Felix Ortiz. Bottom: Through discussion, speech students interpret the hidden meanings and important values contained in the content of their most recent play. 26

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‘Literary Works Were an Insight St. Louis High School scholars were able to broaden their knowledge of the world about them through extensive studies in the literary fields of English. Customs and morals of past and present day societies were discussed as a result of reading such books as “The Scarlet Letter” in American Heritage classes. Racial aspects and feelings were subjects for thought and discussion by students in Modern American Literature after they read the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Those enrolled in Literary Explorations, read literature from ancient to modern times. Shakespeare and “The Outsiders” were contrasting areas of study in this course. Autobiographies of Nobel Prize authors and their works were read by students in the class, Nobel Prize Authors. “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway and “The Good Earth” by Pearl Buck were two of the popular studies. Social, historical, and geographical information pertaining to our world was presented to students through poetry, short stories, and novels in all literature classes. To the World About Us’ 28