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

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ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE Mary E. Hickey! Loretto Condon, Tomina Hilcmd, Sarah Burn English; 0161 Bogen, Foreign Lcm- , quage; Adeline Hoegberg, Minette Rudolph, Eng- lish; Zillcxh Morgan, Foreign Language. Annettct Gibson, Harriet Hyzerl Olive Ballard, Edna OIcmder, Iecm Geddes, English. Oral interpretation aids in the understanding of good literature as these seventh graders demon- strate. Catherine Nicholson shows that she can ecrire as well as parIer Frcmcais. I will now relate my strange adventures in the English and foreign 1cm- guqqe departments. One of the common sights in cm English classroom, I am told, is the breaking down of sentences. From this, they get such odd words as subject, verb, predicate nominative, and adverb. I also saw a group of very dis- couraged looking people. They were reading CI book called The Talisman , which was, methinks, to be followed by Silas Marner cmd mcmy others. Since this was during the second half of the yectr, this class was studying literature, while during the first half they had studied composition with a little work on grammar. Upon entering a Latin class I talked to the Brainpumper in charge. I found that besides studying the language, the class learned about the history and the customs of the country whose language they were studying. E123

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l,it GENERAL SCIENCE J ' , Harry M. Palmer, LeRoy Foss, Verona M. Prien, Paul Johnson, Paul E. Nelson, Emery G. Fritsch. It takes brains to understand brains, as this class can tell you. a Mercy on me! I thought, what cm odor! Have the cooking classes been burning something, I wonder. But I'm not near them. What can it be? Thoughts led to action, and soon I found myself investigating the mysteries of nature along with another seventh grade general science class. In this class the pupils study such topics as air, tire, heat, and ventilation. Besides these, they study stimulants cmd narcotics. The eighth grade pupils come across such topics as The characteristics of some common substances, The changing surface of the earth, The earth's neighbors, and The weather.' These are followed by or study of the way mcm has gained power over nature by means of machines, by the development of means of communication, and by or study of light, sound, and water. Ninth grade ushers in a course of biology, where the student studies plants and animals and the human body. The first semester is spent in general biology Ehow living things differ from non-livinq; how they depend on their surround- ings for existence; how they obtain and store food; how they are related to each other; and how they are controlled and improved. The study of the human body is made during the second semester. This includes the study of how the body prepares and uses food, how it provides for its individual cells, how it is adapted by structure to perform the activities of life. Next, or study of the nervous system is made. Finally, CI brief study of diseases and their causes and cures is made.

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k I I . Plat: K x?! vyf'lfl J MUSIC AND ART GER J ; Allen Elmquist, Band Director; Myrtle Irons, Supervisor of Art; Dorothy Cockfield, Art; Astrid Gustafson, Supervisor of Music; June Bornor, Or- chestra Director. Emma Green, Orchestra; Phyllis Ackra, Music; Mary S. Angus, Music; Eunice Knock, Music; Har- riett Iohnson, Art. 'Absent: Merle Crandall, Art; George K. Jensen, Band. -. , 7 b. - Cba.Q.- S This class demonstrates that music brings hape piness. This elective art class carry out their designs in various media. As I traveled through this land, I saw many examples of the inhabitants' artistic and musical ability. On the display boards erected for the purpose I saw posters announcing plays and programs. These posters had been made by members of the art classes. Wandering into one of the workshops, I saw pic- tures painted by some of the younger people, seventh graders who were re- quired to study art to discover if they had any talent for it. Here was much talent in the making, as I learned from the Brainpumper in charge. Going on from the art department I was arrested by the sound of music. Boldly investigating, I found myself in the midst of a rehearsal for the Operetta, And It Rained , given under the direction of Mrs. Angus, Miss Ackra, and Miss Knock. Like art, music is compulsory for only the seventh graders, but the others may elect it for eighth and ninth grade. I131