Alleghany County High School - Alcova Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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Romance Languages Aid Students In Mrs. Sumner begins explaining the eonjugution of the verb “estudiar to her Spanish students. Miss Ma casts a menacing glare at anyone who dares to interrupt one ol ' her Latin tests. Mrs. Nichols signs a permission slip so that one of her students ma do some research i n French culture in the library. 24

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More Aware Of Today’s World Mr. O’Rourke makes a point in one of his relaxed lectures. Mr. Reed is shocked to see the Alcova staff photographer pre- paring to get a shot of him. Mr. Williams takes a break to read his morning newspaper Mr. Carpenter makes plans for a guest speaker to address his Government classes. 23

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Better Knowing Their Own Language What a surprise to Mrs. Nichols some of those French films must be! One of her student ' s more scholarly Latin replies seems to amuse Miss May. Two of the foreign languages taught at A.C.H.C. were derived from the third. French and Spanish were Romance languages which meant that they were derived from Latin. Throughout the 1972-73 school year, Mrs. Sumner endeavored to teach the traditional customs, geography, and history of the Spanish-speaking countries, as well as the language. Spanish provided the platform to build on in Spanish II. In Spanish II a more involved know ledge of the language was attempted. Once again. Miss May preached to her scholars that “Latin is not a dead language!” Latin proved to be a great help in increasing the students’ English vocabularx and in im- proving his overall study of English grammar. No, in Miss May ' s class Eatin truly was not a “dead” language. In Erench, Mrs. Nichols also taught the customs and history of Erance. French, as did the other languages, tried to cross the language barriers of communication. 25