Ben L Smith High School - Aquila Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Strive For Linguistic Skill improve upon their listening and speaking skills. Foreign culture as well as language is intro¬ duced in each class. This cultural knowledge helps us create the bridge of understanding and appreciation which is essential in achieving in¬ ternational good will. Films, recordings, and pictures showed us life in other countries, and understanding teachers put up with our accents. We don ' t know how well the French or Spanish people will be able to understand us, but we do know the learning experience in these tongues have made us feel like the international “jet set. Mrs. Brown distributes French practice records which are used in a self-improvement program for individual students. Each students receives individual instruction from Mr. Sams in the language lab. This is a study in profile of Larry Eubanks and Mr. Sams concentrating over a technical difficulty. The control panel of the audio-lingual laboratory is an impressive maze of buttons, lights, and dials. 45

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Modern Language Classes One language makes a wall; it takes two to make a gate. With this bit of philosophy, the foreign language teachers are working steadily to build the gate. Through a sequential program of three levels, we learn to communicate ideas and to understand the target language as spoken by natives. In French and Spanish, Level One teaches lis¬ tening ability and comprehension; Level Two re¬ quires reading ability as w ell as verbal profici¬ ency. Level Three requires reading and writing development through the study of literature. In the language laboratory, both French and Spanish students are given the opportunity to Spanish students study dia¬ logues and repetition drills with the use of the tape re¬ corder. This gives them the advantage of hearing the native voice and imitating the acents. Modern Language Dept., Seated: Mrs. Argyle Brown, Chairman; Standing, left to right: Mr. Jon Sams; Mr. Henry Whitaker. Mrs. Brown illustrates pho¬ netic symbols in French so that students may perfect their pronunciation in the French language.

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2 ? istory Department: seated, I. to r.: Mrs. Martha Simpson; rs. Brenda MacDonald; standing: Mr. James Howell, Chair¬ man; Mrs. Margaret Carter; Mr. Jerry Dellinger. Our Heritage Provides If we are to live in the world of tomorrow, we must be acquainted with yesterday and today. If we are to know ourselves, we must know others. This is the basic concept in our history department and many new courses were added to enlighten us and make us better future citizens. The Social Studies Department expanded this year by adding courses in sociology, government, and economics. New equipment enhanced the program by adding visual procedure to text in¬ formation, Field trips, symposiums, and projects Students of American History learn about the growth and states of the present day. Here, Mr. Howell corrects the development of their own country from its beginning as a views of a confused student, weak confederation to the complex democratic union of 46