Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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PSYCHOLOGY UNITED STATES HISTORY WORLD GEOGRAPHY SOCIAL ■ Understanding our world more fully through the study of World History, United States History, Modern Problems, and Psychology . . . preparing thesis, Con- stitutional notebooks, term papers, oral reports, and panel discussions to increase our knowledge of democ- racy . . . learning to form opinions based on fact in Modern Problems . . . understanding many confusing political charts . . . and applying our knowledge of social studies to everyday life . . . The Carey Cabinet MODERN PROBLEMS MODERN WORLD HISTORY “Ya mean you think this deserves an ‘A’?” Who said that

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Student versus book. Don gets Mr. Foley confused. “ Who said Speech Arts was hard? Miss Cross heads a Gab Session. Learning to increase speed and comprehension. ■ Extending our knowledge through the study of the great literary masterpieces of the world . . . improving our ability to write creditable essays with the aid of the lay-readers, whose objective comments have helped many a poor writer . . . worrying about departmentals and those extensive vocabulary lists . . . taking advan- tage of the resources of our school library to broaden our horizons . . . Phrase reading . . . speed reading . . . comprehen- sion . . . reading for fun . . . keeping up with the con- trolled reader . . . word analogies meaning word rela- tionships . . . knowing synonyms and antonyms . . . having more time for paragraph comprehension . . . ENGLISH 11

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Mrs. Jameson straightens things out. v ti, £) e Sterne fuMen- iMilan- LANGUAGES ■ “Le Petit Price,” dialogues, Moliere, and thinking in French ... to “umlaut” or not to “umlaut,” to capital- ize all nouns, and to remember word orders in German . . . to do interlineal translations, correcting sentences with yellow chalk, and speaking Italian ... to read Virgil, conditional sentences, Baker and Inglis, and those never to be forgotten rules of Latin ... to learn the alphabet, and to study the aspects of “a highly inflected language,” Russian . . . Castilian accents, translations of “El Sombrero de Tres Picos,” and con- versations in Spanish . . . (2dJ a c j£ ds T SfaM fo Md 7?Oxt The teacher, Dick, not the photographer.