Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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LANGUAGE The language department of Belmont High School has developed deepe r dimensions. Audio-visual aids, films, tapes, maps, and records are shaping a modern language program which teaches the student to think and converse fluently in the foreign tongue. In a new language laboratory, accomodating thirty-five students, oral practice makes the goal of perfection in fluency, pronunciation, intonation, and comprehension more at- tainable. Improved methods of travel and closer foreign rela- tions of the present indicate the future will bring us into frequent contact with other cultures. An under- standing of world history, customs, civilizations, and association with foreign cultures is essential. A firm foundation in languages will benefit us in building for tomorrow. This is Mercury Control And now. mes betes Mrs. Mezzacappa This is the operator Miss Sullivan, the teacher? 14 i

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HISTORY The Social Studies courses offer a more complete understanding of the world and its peoples through comprehension of government, history, and psychology. World Geography and Modern World History pre- sent knowledge of the history and heritage of world nations, recognizing each in its role. Psychology seeks to understand man through knowledge of his behavior, his habits, his instincts, his powers of reasoning, and his awareness of environment. United States History explains the American heritage, the foundation of our country, its democracy, and principles of justice and equality. Learning to form valid opinions based intelli- gently on fact, the aim of the Modern Problems course, is a demand of the future for a responsible citizen in local, national, and international affairs. Oral reports, notebooks, research papers, the final theses, and panel discussions are methods used to stimulate, teach, and inspire the search for understand- ing and knowledge that may be practically applied to one’s self and community. Mr. Carey I am ordering bifocals COL LEG E BOOK BUSINESS BOOK UNITED STATES HISTORY BOOKS HlSfTORY OF ■ ' ■V Mr. Pulliam’s cabinet 13

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At this point the getaway car will be waiting Taking it easy Mr. Burke at work MATHEMATICS Geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and calculus con- stitute the cumulative progression of math education. For every student with ability greater than average, there exists a math course harder than his ability such that every homework assignment less than completed assures that the first test grade will be less than pass- ing. Thus as the student ' s grade approaches zero, the limit of the teacher’s patience becomes undefined. With grades on math tests like vivid signs, and circle equations to be solved (not easy as pie) it is no won- der one trigs off on tangents. Official taxing problems raised in the business course account for a blue profit in practical revenue of knowledge. With each course the competition and intensity in the field of mathematics becomes more acute. Final accomplishments parallel one’s power to raise bases of understanding. Mr. Sullivan is ready Awk! Q 2 + fO—O duuv iwnai ST H 15