Brookville High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookville, PA)

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L’Annuaire, Brookville High School Science (TQ ROOKVILLE HIGH SCHOOL offers to the enterprising student many advantages and ways of making his high school course pay. One of the many is through our Science Department. Here everything necessary to an elementary course in science is assembled. The Science course consists of four complete courses or subjects each to be completed in one year. The first of these single year courses is General Science. This course is, as its name implies, a general study and preparation for the other three courses to follow. The second year course is Biology, a less extensive but more comprehensive study of the elementary principles of Zoology gained from General Science. Page Twelve

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The Year Book of Achievements English (C) UR four-year English course gives the student a knowledge of English as she is spoken, and literary appreciation. After a thorough drilling in grammar and punctuation during the Freshman year, the pupils review and enlarge upon these two fundamentals the three succeeding years. Each class has its reading list, from the lighter books in first year English to the deeper literature in Senior English. Freshman English specializes in sentence structure. The parts of speech, declension, and conjugation are the main subjects of study. This foundation must be firm in order to fully enjoy second year English. The Sophomore course is much more interesting. The students take up short stories from a technical point. By a study of the best short story writers and application of last year's training, the pupil-authors produce their own short stories with a fair degree of success. American Literature from the Colonial period to modern poetry and a touch of Shakespeare are brought in. Grammar review and letter writing are also included. The Junior English classes subscribe to The Scholastic, a literary magazine, which they use for discussion. A variety of topics are considered during the year. Some are scansion, modern essayists, Arthurian legends, grammar, and study of words. Senior English deals with the outline of English Literature from the first vestiges of writing to modern authors. A final grammar review is also conducted. In this last term, real literary appreciation is brought to the fore. In these four years the average pupil has learned to speak purer English, to write a good business letter, to compose clear themes, to recognize good literature when he sees it, and master word choice fairly well. Finally, by means of the reading list he has advanced from Mark Twain through Thackeray to Shakespeare, and has enjoyed them all. Page Eleven

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The Year Book of Achievements Science The third year is a course in Chemistry. Here our view of this fascinating natural science is considerably broadened and an enlargement of the simple fundamentals which we learned now takes place. The fourth and last year is the Physics course. Here we take up point by point interesting theories and problems which we had to pass over during our first year course. On the whole, therefore, it would pay anyone to take up our science course as it actually teaches you to think and react quickly to situations and problems which require quick and accurate thinking. Page Thirteen