Bedford North Lawrence High School - Reflections Yearbook (Bedford, IN)

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English Is Our Doorwa to Effective Communication While giving speeches, plays. and radio broad- casts, speech students practice the most necessary of skills-oral communication. In four semesters, they learn public address and theatrical arts from make-up and costuming to box office management. English classes emphasize speech, as well as reading. literature, grammar, and composition. Oral reports are given from library research on crime, hobbies. and current events. Oral readings of poems and plays such as Julius Caesar enrich the English classes. Reading is stressed on the freshman level, and students work with films and Npacersn to increase their speed and comprehension. Upperclassmen concentrate on another vital as- pect of communication, written expression. They write short stories, themes. letters, and plays. The seniors explore and write about perfect societies based on their reading of Walden. Two, Brave New Mrs. Ehlers' seniors read and interpret literature, World, 1984, Gullivefs Travels, and Utopia. Fr . l . L , ' , . . es unen use. the machines Sentence dmgmmmg' to intensify their reading rate. 3 , F .,V ,,.,x M-ww -- . -Q if .sr , . f .,, me W W V .awp- V A Mrs. Endris appears to be disturbed after a session of

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French students improve their vocabulary with an occasional game of scrabble. Foreign Languages Encourage Internationalism The academic student must choose a two-year program in French, German, Latin, or Spanish. Non-academic students may take a language if their interest is suffi- Breaking the pinata is a Spanish tradition at Christmas. Steve. LeeAnn. and Paul act out a Spanish play which linds both boys vying for LeeAnn's affections. l cient. Should French or Spanish be chosen. the student attempts to gain understanding of the Spaniard and Frenchman through cultural experi- ences. This is accomplished through studying the art, literature, and music of Spain and France. The language laboratory plays an impor- tant part in developing oral profi- ciency and it provides the tool to accomplish this through hearing Frenchmen and Spaniards speaking their native tongue via the magic of magnetic tapes.