Abraham Lincoln Junior High School - Annual Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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l 936 LINCOLN ANNUAL HERE AND THERE We Take a Book Home The Book Shelves Invite Us Our library, on the third floor, is a well-lighted room with many large tables and com- fortable chairs. Here every hour of the day may be found a room full of pupils studying and reading. In small rooms adjoining the reading room are small conference rooms whose book shelves are devoted to the collection of books pertaining to a certain subject. On the shelves in the main reading room are to be found the large collections of Fiction and of general reference works. Our library has over fifty-three hundred volumes. Miss Seal, our librarian, is of great aid to all pupils in pursuit of information in the library. One of the means of providing practical education is found in the model apartment. This charming suite, simply and tastefully furnished, is located on the third floor adjoining the household arts laboratories. The apartment is in the care of the members of the various classes whose duty it is to keep it clean and in order. Teas, luncheons, and parties are frequently given at which the girls have most practical experience in a very necessary part of life- meeting people socially. Setting the Table A Display from Mechanical Drawing Page 15

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i936 LINCOLN ANNUAL AROUND THE SHOPS ln Machine Shop The Boys In Auto Shop A tour of the shops of Lincoln is an enlightening and interesting experience for anyone. Until one has actually seen them, one little realizes the varied activities of a school such as ours. Our shops are well equipped, as well as will be found in any junior high school and as well as most commercial shops. Here the boys have the experience of working under the con- ditions of work in industry, and of discovering for themselves the work for which they are pre- pared. Many boys choose their life work as a result of their courses in junior high school industrial arts. The opportunity of trying various trades makes it possible for them to discover the ones which they wish to pursue in later years. On the three main floors of the building are located large lighted display cases in which are displayed exhibits which interpret the work of the school. One, located on the first floor, showed an interesting display of tracings made by boys in mechanical drawing classes. The Cabinet Shop The Electric Shop Page 14

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I936 LINCOLN ANNUAL MATHEMATICS Miss Laura Larson, Miss Smith Burchfield Some of urs took three years of mathematics, while some of us took only the two that were fvequired, NVhichever course we took, we all acquired many treasures to last us the rest oi our IVCS. In 7B we studied common business forms with accounts, graphs, meter reading, and per- centage. VVe continued in 7A with geometry, construction, and design scale drawing, as well as the beginning of work with formulas. In SB we continued our study of geometry with a study of triangles and solids. We also had new problems in equations and in algebra. We continued and developed our study of formulas. By the time we reached SA, we were sup- posed to have a working knowledge of business arithmetic, nevertheless, we reviewed it in order to have it thoroughly fixed in our minds. This completed the required work in mathe- matics, but many of us were so much interested in the subject that we elected to take algebra in our ninth year. NVe continued, in 9B, the work in equations and learned the principles of positive and negative numbers. This theory opened a new world of mathematics to us, for we could now do many things that we could not do with simple arithmetic. In algebra II, we progressed to special products and fractional equations, finding them much more com- plicated than equations without fractions. We solved problems with not only one equation, but with sets of equations. The course ended with the study of powers and roots. Looking back over our three years of mathematics, We realize that we have many things for which to be thankful, chiefly the ability to perform the simple mathematical operations involved in the life of each of us. We have had an introduction to the different branches of mathematics and have learned to appreciate the power of mathematics in ordinary life, in related fields, and in advanced mathematical work. Now we understand the relation between mathematics and the outside world. We have gained treasures. The 7B's are in a Mathematics Class Page 16 Miss Mnrtfeldt, Miss Patterson, Miss Worster, Mrs. Loveland, Miss Noller, Mrs. Tjaden, Miss