Brownell Talbot School - Triangle Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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is an impor part of the Eng program The library is the English laboratory Sentence diagramming is useful when studying grammar English Department Command of the English Language is mandatory not only in creative work and expository writing but also in speaking. Vocabulary study and intesified work gives the student practice in self expression and organization. The English Department of Brownell-Talbot stresses grammar, vocabulary, a broad reading of American and English literature and composition. The contemporary literature course includes a study of twentieth century philosophy, writers, artists, novels, and periodicals. The voracious reader is able to earn full extra credit from the Outside Reading Course which requires the student to submit book reviews on thirty-five approved novels and to pass a comprehensive oral examination. In addition each middle and upper school student is required to read and report on five approved novels each summer. Individual study is im- portant All students learn to use the card catalogue.

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Individual instruction in fourth year Latin stimulates learning. ' Latin Department Latin is our mother tongue. Studying Latin at the high school level teaches the student not only clear and precise thinking, basic grammar construction, and vocabulary roots, but a sound basis with which to pursue other romance lan- guages. To have the chance or time to study advanced Latin today is a luxury. The gratification gained from trans- lating Cicero's original satirical Words, perceiving the beauty of Vergil's genius in his Aeneid and the profound satisfaction afforded the advanced Latin student emphasize the intrinsic value of the language. And together we sing, Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris. ,egg law. if H X5 im? 15 ,M is 'E it s is -tif - in X ' U r. ,sf . fi g v v t ttttttt Eat 5 .p l '1 On Language Da Latin students dress in classicalycostumes. First year stu dents learn to de- cline nouns.

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Explanations by students are important for learn- American Government lectures are ing. Lecture is important in history, too supplemented by outside material. History Department The Brownell-Talbot history program employs ex- tensive study of basic text books and supplementary ma- terial, including field trips, films, visiting speakers, talks by World travelers and reports from one-thousand pages of outside reading per semester. Last summer Mrs. Nomland headed a committee of grade and high school social studies teachers who Worked out a synchronized history program, the principles of which are being used at Brownell-Talbot. History is a fascinating puzzle. ln this age especially we find that a knowledge of it is essential in our daily lives. The eighth grade relates air currents to geography Oral reports give more responsibility to stu- dents. 14