Central High School - Pemican Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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Wh ilc social studies broaden outlooks. Baxter Kelly and Jimmie Hart admire Bob Zimmer- man's world history project in Mrs. Whitesell's class. The exciting events of an election year, both on the state and national levels, tur- nished material for lively discussions and de- bates in history classes at HPHS. Newspapers, periodicals, news broadcasts, and the maga- zine Every Week provided a background for understanding the major issues of the day, HPHS participated in the TV teaching of Miss Lindsay looks on opprovingly as Vickie Burton delivers a biogrciphic report in American History. American history from UNC. Students watched television lessons for the first thirty minutes of the hour, then heard discussions led by the classroom teacher. Many classes, without the aid of television, studied the dramatic story of man as told in both American and world history. Related fields of study included geog- raphy and problems of American democracy. Discussion of problems of Ameri- can democracy bring questions from Steve Ramsey, Mike Dunlap, and Jim Morgan.

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Q Languages create interest in other la s it sz fl tx a s 5 ,V A ,J 3,5 lg , H51 M, L ev L Clark Dillon Randy Burge Brenda Dockery and Sally Osborn learn that pronouncing French words together improves their individual accents Language Day gives these Spanish students .loan Wood and Darrell Odom a chance to show off talent and colorful costumes at the some time ff ', f if -7 , Spanish and French are the two modern foreign languages taught at HPHS First year Spanish students tackled challenging vocabu laries and translations supplementing their studies with murals and Scrapbooks In addr tion to their regular work second year stu dents learned songs read poetry and studied the traditions of the Spanish people Language Day and the State Spanish Exam :nation challenged the Spaniards to show their language skills This year for the first time classes had the opportunity to hear speakers on various language topics Enthusiastic first year French students stud ied grommar and improved their accents by listening to French pronouncnation records They also participated in the State Language Examination program and sent representa tives to the Language Day celebration The second year French students made on orig inal tape recording about High Point to send to the twin school Lycee Dupuy de Lome Lorlent France 22 'P '3 yt gil. Ala T' ,X X I b ' ' ' Y I I I X . ' ' ll - ll . , 1 l h 1 ' ' 1 , . 7

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Doug Shirley uses his know- ledge of plane geometry to explain why bewildering tri- ,angles are congruent. Math and sc1cncc challenge the curious. General math, business arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, solid geometry, and college algebra were the courses offered this year at HPHS. Ambitious s t u d e n t s, following the new trend, enrolled as sophomores in plane geo- metry and Algebra ll in order that they might take advanced courses during their re- maining years in high school. ln business math, future business leaders learned income tox reporting and accounting, while others interested in laying the founda- tion for achievement in today's technicol world pursued all the advanced math courses offered at HPHS. Supplies were purchased through the Na- tional Defense Education Act and distributed by Mrs. Christine Stephens, new department head. Mrs. Roberts assists Morcio Holder and Jimmy Hart as they figure out the complexities of a chemistry experiment.