Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ORENA FARMER CDepartment Headj English is primarily a tool subject. The first aim of the department is to teach the student to speak, read, and write his native tongue on the adult plane, with correctness and facility. Such skill is necessary to the individual, for his happiness and satisfaction in life depend much on his successful com- munication with others. Another purpose is to familiarize the student through the content of the course with situations of life and make him think for himself. The regular English courses are divided into two parts, literature and rhetoric. In literature the best works of American and English writers form the nucleus of each course. Composition has two aspects, form and content. Attention is given the latter to help the student to think logically and to recog- nize and consider social problems. The English curriculum has several specialized courses: public speaking, journalism, junior journalism, dramatics, and college preparatory English. THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT E. G. HEXTER CDSDQFIIIISHI Headj If education is to foster the cultivation of thinking that is both critical and independent, then whatever subject is taught should promote this ideal. Fortunately, mathematics has always been regarded as a subject that lends itself best both as a tool of thinking and as a mode for thinking. As a tool for thinking mathematics differs essentially form other fields of knowledge since it is primarily quantative, precise and objective. But as a mode of thinking it differs in no essential respect from most of the other subjects. All thinking as a method involves the definition of the problem, the formulation and testing of hypothesis, and verification of results, it involves certain assumptions or meanings that control the interpretation and solution of the problem, it implies certain attitudes such as suspended judgment, precison and accuracy within the limitations of the data that may be available, it is experimental and not dogmatic in its procedureg and above all, it is individual through and through since in no Way may one be justified in saying that one person can think for another. Education should become a vital preparation for living because it is the whole of living, and consequently, mathematics becomes converted into a tool and mode of thinking as valuable as it is indispensible because it frees the individual from the limitations of routine, habit, prejudices and physical weakness. Mathematics should be a tool and a method that should help humanize education. The Department of Mathematics offers a full four-year course as follows: Elementary Algebra 1 and ll, Plane Geometry lll and IVg Advance Algebra Vg Solid Geometry VI, Trigonometry VII and College Algebra VIII.

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FHCULTY THEODORE A. HARPSTREIT,B.S. Iames Milikin, University CManua1 Art Educationj Belleville, Illinois R. M. DENNY, B.S. Indiana University Bradley Polytechnic Indiana State Teachers' College lMechanical and Architectural Drawingl Belleville, Ill.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE ALVIN NEBELSICK QDepartment Headj The social studies include those courses whose subject matter relates directly to the organization and development of human society, and to man as a member of social groups. Their purpose is to enable us to realize what it means 'to live in society, and to appreciate how people have lived and do live together, and to under- stand the conditions so necessary to living together well, and that in the end we may all become citizens. HOME ECONOMICS CLARA B. NEUBAUER CDepartrnent Head, The Home Economic courses offered in B.T.H.S. are planned to provide training in the various activities of home life needed as a foundation to good homemaking and an introduction to courses a student may be interested in studying in college. Home Economics in our high schools and colleges no longer consists of just cooking and sewing. It provides courses needed to meet the growing demand in professional and commercial field for Home Eco- nomics trained women as well as for the Homemaking profession. The Homemaking III includes study of the home and family, home man- agement, study of wise expenditure of the income, relation of home to com- munity, child care and development. Homemaking IV includes planning and furnishing the home, care of the home, planning the wise use of time, health and care of sick in the home, education and training of little children, our responsibility to all children. Foods I, includes a study of the composition, selection and preparation of foods, planning and serving breakfast and luncheons. Foods II includes a study of food preservation, planning and serving dinners, marketing and special diets in relation to health. Clothing I includes the study of the selection and care of sewing equip- ment, fundamental processes for all sewing, personal grooming, a study of fibers and qualities of materials, planning, selection and construction of simple undergarments and dresses, and care and repair of garments. Clothing Il includes the study of design and color in relation to planning and selection of garments, simple tailoring, remodeling and construction of children's garments. Clothing III includes a study of principles of design in relation to dress hygienic principles underlying dress and the economic aspects of dress. The making of a handsome garment or article for the home, selection of household textile articles, make over garments, afternoon and tailored garments. Clothing IV includes the study of pattern making and fitting, simple costume designing, dyeing of materials study of selection of furs, textile fab- rics and laces, study of problems in consumer and other current clothing and textile topics according to needs and interests of the class.