Adlai Stevenson High School - Aurora Yearbook (Livonia, MI)

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Approach to the En liyh Language Jan Marek Susan McNamara Audrey Mellen John O'Donnell p K . 'Q--me Wading through the creative works of his students, Mr. Sima pauses to reflect on some happier moment. As the department chairman, he served as overseer of all English teachers. Mr. Sima, an accomplished actor, was chosen for the lead in a the- ater guild production, Barefoot in the Park. Janice Sanborn Joseph Taylor Dorothy Trosko Kathleen Zielinski Students could find a profusion of information in the English Re- source Center. It also provided a quiet alternative to the cafeteria study halls and an often overcrowded library. gf ,..- A fa ,JM- ' A ,W s J ,,,. r,:j:f'm K . . .ff , ,....f-ff

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William Alexander Richard Bott The English department maintained a policy of giving Stevenson students a modern ap proaeh to the English language. The addition of the resource center and the use of modular scheduling was especially effective in making the department curriculum more flexible. New courses for the Senior Class included rhetoric, humanities, English literature, and advanced placement. As the largest department in the school, the English department had more free- dom to experiment with large and small group situations. The department is moving toward a better knowledge of students' needs. Mr. Kaplan, the department consultant, assisted many of the English teachers in improving students' reading skills. He also was co-director for the all-school musical. 22 Sharon Chapple George Croll Stevenron 0 err Modern In order for students to improve in the art of English composition, it is necessary that they receive constructive criticism. Miss Alderman collected the works of her students for appraisal. ,.V t , I vas i V Ruth Gruber Donna Harris Iacqueline Jones Edythe Johnson

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German peru for Lunch Animated ircurrionig Swinging with suspicious accuracy, a blindfolded Spanish student at- tempted to destroy a candy-flied pinata. Teaching and studying languages at Stevenson was rarely orthodox, and was therefore rarely bor- ing. Incidents came evenly spaced, so that the an- nouncement that ordered books had not yet been published was soon followed by the accidental erasure of a master tape, both of which were accompanied by the steadily dropping temperature of the language lab. ln between incidents, teachers attempted to initiate students into the mysteries of the subjunctive tense, Goethe, French poetry, and tape recorders. For the first time, Stevenson had fourth year stu- dents, who were able to supplement the lower level courses in methods as direct as making tapes of readings, to those as indirect as singing German VQD6I'3HfTliCll1IiElYt3lDlC in m me A.F.S. also provided an unexpected windfall to language students, and Estella patiently endured, and even encouraged, halting conversations in pid- gin Spanish. And while few Stevenson students were versed in Italian, George was sufficiently Huent in French to participate in an animated discussion of the rellexiveness of a word. Her studies in Mexico hardly prepared Mrs. Freydl to teach Spanish in the sub-normal temperatures that prevailed in the language lah for several days. Margaret Bennett Rosemarie Breckoff 24 june Freydl Michaela Graham