Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Mrs. Boyer points out the interesting features of a Shakespearian theatre model to T. Mead, D. Metz, G. Chauncy, and J. Personette. Preparing a panel discussion in speech class. B. Wagner, J. Parrish running off a page for the Limelight in journalism class. D. Lansdale shows an area in eleventh grade English class.

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enqLish speech jouRnalism In the freshman year, the student learns the principles of literature and grammar. He reads such stories as The Odyssey and learns to act out plays. In the sophomore year, he continues to use these principles in everyday life. He reads Julius Ceasar and is required to write a term paper so that he can put what he has learned in grammar to actual use. In the junior year, he explores the fine arts of poetry, short stories, creative writing and good music as they are reflected in literature. He then learns to facilitate these fine arts in grammar. In the senior year, he studies mostly English literature from its beginning with Beo-wolf to modern authors like Winston Churchill. He also studies a short survey of the history of England, its affect on literature, and the literature's reflection of the various ages. English Composition is taught mainly to prepare the student for college. He studies vocabulary words on the college level, and he learns to write and speak formally. Speech is a furthering of English principles. The student demonstrates his ability to express individual personality in a creative and interesting way before a group. Journalism deals with, newspaper and printing techniques. The students publish weekly the school paper. The Limelight, in which they apply the fundamentals they have learned. S. Tillman and S. Janke demonstrate the subject-verb relationship to Mr. Swonk, the eleventh grade English teacher. D. Hartline, C. Andrews, E. Disselberger, L. Chesher, P. Schrimsher takes parts in sophomore English class play Life with Father . 10

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mathematics All students who enter our school as freshmen are required to take either general mathematics or algebra. In the general math course the fundamentals of math are reviewed and new fields ore explored. At the end of general math, the students are introduced to simple algebra. A student wishing to major in mathematics takes algebra I his freshman year. In this course, the student is introduced to many new mathematical operations. Negative numbers, powers, and roots are some of the new expressions. Plane geometry is a course designed to help the student learn to reason in logical order. He accomplishes this by thinking through in logical order and proving different statements. (An understanding of the inter-relationship of points and lines in various figures is another thing accomplished in this course). In solid geometry, a student adds a third dimension to plane geometry-the dimension of space, and learns how to find surface areas and volumes of different geometric figures. More complicated problems must also be proved in this course. Solid geometry is a one-semester course. Trigonometry is a one-semester course also and is taken the same year as solid geometry. A student must have a working knowledge of algebra to solve equations in trigonometry. Logarithms are also used to help solve problems which contain long and tedious arithmetic computations. Solving triangles with trigonometric functions is based on the ideas of ratio and proportion. K. Smith, K. Brohman, G. Rockey working on angles with instruments in general mathematics class. Sounart, T. Riland working on algebra I problem. 12