Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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Left: Using the map ot France, Ann Babb underlines significant places being discussed in her French I class. ix kim Above: Mrs. McHenry demonstrates teacher participation during the ceramic segment of Spanish Vll's study of the Spanish culture. Left: ln German Ill, students listen intently as Mr. Newkirk re- cites a sample of German poetry. ' LANGUAGE ARTS 23

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i i l Above: Discussing the social and cultural aspects of Russia, Mrs. Voorhis points out to Barbara Farmer and Larry Miles an ar- ticle on Soviet life. Right: Latin students Bob Falge, Shawn Dietrich and Peggy Reese present a model of a Roman house and a Christmas scroll to the rest of the class. 22 LANGUAGE ARTS Anderson became the first area high school to offer Russian, the newest ad- dition to the language arts department. Under the instruction of Mrs. Voor- his, Russian students learned the lan- guage by means of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students heard records by native speakers, learned dialogues, saw films and learned about the culture by seeing slides taken by Mrs. Voorhis when she was in the Soviet Union. The introduction of Russian into the language arts department made it the fifth language to be offered. The foreign language department is an important part of the language arts program, commented Mrs. Bridges, department head. Enrollment in the foreign language program was Z8 per cent of the total enrollment meaning around 500 students were taking a foreign language. More stu- dents are enrolled in our foreign lan- guage program than in any of the other high schools. ln other areas of the language arts department, Honors English students read and acted out Shakespearian plays and studied characteristics of the Classical, Medieval, Romantic and Re- naissance periods, Remedial classes concentrated their efforts upon the de- velopment of spelling, vocabulary and sentence structures. tem W l l 4 l 1

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During ll B English, Mrs. Mullarkey explains to Char- les Harris how checks and minuses on homework as- signments figure into his grade. 24 LANGUAGE ARTS English, offering a wide range of 25 courses, was an inescapable subject everyone was required to take. Stu- dents were offered the chance to ben- efit from several opportunities. Mrs. Bridges commented on Senior Dramatics and Speech, These stu- dents had the chance to build confi- dence in themselves and an increase awareness of human problems. Self expression and getting over the in front of the class jitters were two areas on which great emphasis was placed. The AHS speech department was represented in the district VFW Voice of Democracy contest by Debbie Burand who tied for third. lO All English found sophomores disillusioned with keeping note cards straight, remembering to reverse the indention procedure on the biblio- gaphy page, and finally optomist- graphy page, and finally optomist- ically looking at a C+ as a final re- search paper grade. American Studies classes made but- ter, learned square dancing, and dec- orated an old-fashioned Christmas tree to help relate their studies to the life of the early Americans. The Indiana Reporatory Theater housed lOO AHS students from l2Hll English, French, World Literature, and Drama classes as they viewed a Mol- iere play, The Doctor in Spite of Him- selff' March 7. The play was designed to present the follies and absurdities in mans' behavior patterns. SPEECH CLUB Front row Mrs. Chapman, sponsor, Ange Hanna, Susanna Harter, treas.g Suzanne Szumilas, sec.: Debbie Burand, v-pres.: Naomi Rodgers, pres., Miss Dadcls, sponsor. Row 2 lulie Melander, Kim Wright, Rosie Yeagley, Mary Anne Malone, Charlie Dadds, Nancy Dykes, Pati Casterline, Cathy Williams. Back row john Evans, Greg Almquist, Carol Plummer, Brad Ballentine, Barbara Coryn, Shri-Vonn Clayton, Ron Ritchhart.