Brookings Harbor High School - Bear Facts Yearbook (Brookings, OR)

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Papers are passed out by English teacher. Mr. DeGroa1, who teaches lems, lectures to one of his Mrs. Hedberg, freshmen English teacher, works at the endless task of paper correcting. Language Arts Sophomore English and speech 'teacher Mr. Mouti ad- dresses a speech class. my .Se

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Mr. Seibert, Seniof iunior English and american prob- English classes. Spanish and iournalism teacher Mrs. Westwell helps Steve Erickson in the language laboratory. The four members of the English Department are: Mrs. Hedberg, freshmen English, Mr. Mauti, sophomore English and speech, Mr. DeGroat, iunior English, and Mr. Seibert, senior English, the latter serving as depart- ment chairman. The freshmen followed a general course of study under the direction of Mrs. Hedberg. They reviewed salient points of grammar, spent time on paragraph construction, and read short stories, poems, essays, and a novel. The English ll classes divided the year between literature and grammar. Mr. Mauti introduced them to authors of world-renown through short stor- ies, poetry, and drama. The students learned to recognize and appreciate satire and irony in both fiction and non-fiction. Students tried their hand at writing short stories and sequels to short stories. Mr. Mauti also taught one speech class. Junior English classes, under the direction of Mr. DeGroat, began to express themselves through themes and debates. They also wrote a short story and discussed the writings of Mark Twain. Seniors began the year with the writing of comprehensive themes. Mr. Seibert directed them in the analysis of the methods and philosophies of various English writers, they studied very thoroughly two of Shake- speare's tragedies, Macbeth and l'lamlet. At the end of the year, English IV studied vocabulary words and verb coniugations. Sophomores, juniors and seniors devoted some time to the Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes, and verb roots as an introduction to the deri- vation of words used in the English language. Audio-lingual Spanish was introduced this year. Primary emphasis in first year classes was on spoken Spanish, the students being expected to write only what they had previously read, spoken, and heard.