Aiken High School - Peregrine Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Mrse Cafo'lin English is not Mrs. Bievins' only responsibiliTy. Mrs. Ryder Success in Today's society depends on one's ability To communicoTe wiTh The world obouT him. To Teach iTs sTu- denTs To communicoTe effecTively, boTh orally and graphically, is 0 major goal of The Aiken English De- parTmenT. The sTUdenTs ore ToughT The sTrucTures and TuncTions of English grammar and are given a good deal of procTice in using The grammar. AnoTher imporTch aim of The Eng- lish DeparTmenT is The opprecioTion of good liTerGTure. The sTudenTs learn The value of reading and TnTerpreTing good books. Such mosTers of prose and drama 05 William Shakespeare, George EIioT, Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Hardy, and Charles Dickens are in- Troduced To sTudenTs. OTher obiecTs emphasized by The English DeporTmenT are The skills nec- essary Tor correcT usage of The li- brary 0nd correcT usage of The dic- Tionory. Building vocabulary and learning To comprehend whoT is read 0T 0 rapid speed are Two oTher imporTonT purposes sTressed. 23 Mrs SchlichTer Mr. Vordenberg Miss Wood MT. Thornbury

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m-zvvr Mrs. Blevins Mrs. Schlichfer asks Miss Hoes the inter- pretation of one of Shakespeare plays. ML Brcun MrsV Campbell

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LANGUAGE Miss Duhlsfrond Mr. Puree French, Spanish, Latin, and German are The languages offered To Aiken sTUdenTs in The Foreign Language Curriculum. The Teaching of These languages is made more eFFIcienT by use of our exceilenT IonT guage laboratory. In Aiken's lobordTory The Teacher is able To hear The individual stu- denT's reply To questions asked on 0 Tape recording. The loboroTory also allows sTu- dents To hear foreign language scholars This enob1es The sTudenTs To comprehend acl cenTs which may be differenT from The in- sTrucTor's. A chat in espoEol