Benjamin Bosse High School - Legacy / Spirit Yearbook (Evansville, IN)

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We Burned Midnight Oil Writing Term Papers, Studying Government FUTURE HBMLETS and Macbeths, great authors and professors spring from the subjects offered in the English Department. Our four years of English began with a mixture of grammar, spelling, pubic speaking and types of literature taught in freshman English. Who will forget Ivanhoe or the familiar book reports due every grading period? THE subjects we pursued as freshmen were covered more closely as we became sophomores and upper-classmen. Literature was taught to us one semester of our sophomore year. Speech was the course for the other semester. Most of us were tongue-tied as we rose to give our first speech or oral book report. We branched out in our junior year. We could take electives and could choose the class in English that suited us best. There were many electives to choose from. Stagesstruck individuals turned to Dramatics and learned to act, to plan stage sets and costuming. Biblical Litera- ture offered a study of the Bible and its meaning and for those who loved to express themselves, Advanced Speech was open. EDITING a paper, writing stories and securing ads were in the hands of students who had passed a semester of journalism. Classic novels and poetry were studied by American and English Literature classes. Almost all of us as juniors took Written Expression. In our senior year, long hours and patient research marked the writing of term papers on subjects of our own choice. OUR NATION HAS GROWN and we have grown with it, studying its history, its government and its future. As freshmen we all enrolled in world history or social studies to learn the past of the world and its changes through the years. We studied the rise and fall of many countries and took time out each week to discuss current problems. DISECTING crayfish and mixing chemicals cut out our social studies course when we were sophomores, but another year came along and sud- denly we were juniors. U.S. history interested us in the political history of the United States, our democracy and growth in the political field. This whole idea was brought up to the present in our senior year when we were enrolled in American Problems. Government structure, government agencies and the formation of our democracy were discussed. Later we studied economics and sociology. FIELD trips and mock elections marked our senior year. Banks and loan companies were visited. We chose the wrong man as President, but we got an idea of election procedures. A five day trip to Washington, D.C. gave up a chance to see the nation's capitol and watch the government in action. ' Through our three years of social studies we found a broader view of government, democracy and history. We had interclass discussion with the theme of Safeguarding America and we reviewed current problems. Such were our years of English at Bosse, last minute dashes to the library for book reports, midnight oil and study. Many of us spent most of our school time in English classes. These courses helped many others to choose their life vocation. , We graduated with a fuller knowledge of the English language, how to write and speak it. We also graduated with some experience in an English course which we designated as our favorite and the most useful to us. Si A 1 : v . 'ff