Chicago Jewish Academy - Memoirs Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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MEMOIRS n 31 11'facfevm4 .S- .E2 '2',,..-- -gil:-I 1 e?7f l hi All mfs I' H N. I 57121515 T L I: 'Q 1 dig Qubmll 1 U a'0 If AQ., 'so A Q. 7 jlhmmllf gf l 2 i .6 X I ' 7 It xx r ,ff 4 ff au: ag f Zy l ' If X2 f ' 1 Z! ff,-fggif The Chucago Jewush Academy us sungularly favored un the mastery of foreugn language In vuew of the fact that students un general are euther bulungual or trulungual they already possess a measure of sprachgefuhl or language feelung upon undertakung the study of French or Spanush The four pruncupal obuectuves whuch we aum to attaun are understandung the spoken word abuluty to converse read and wrute The text books are selected on the basus of suutabuluty for the durect method of teachung Thus method deems all language skulls to be of equal umportance The unstructuon materual contauns udeas of unterest and sugnutlcance un terms of the learners back ground of experuence and us constructuon on scuentuflc graduatuon of vocabulary uduom and grammatucal usage All 8A students un the Academy are enrolled un the .lunuor Language course Thus course us guven prumaruly for the purpose of oruentung the prospectuve hugh school freshmen un the varuous languages offered Thus durung the last semester of theur prumory educatuon the pupuls become acquaunted wuth the ruduments of French Latun and Spanush and thereby acquure a sense ot lunguustuc comparuson On the basus of thus oruentatuon although recessaruly lumuted un scope the student us un a better posutuon to elect or unducate preference for the partucular language as hus sequence The value of toreugn language un the hugh school curruculum can be Iustufied on varuous grounds Among others may be cuted an enruchment of the vocabulary un Englush and an umprovement un Englush grammar as well as a gaun un cosmopolutan outlook and a tolerant and sympathetuc attutude toward the people whose lan guage us beung studued Forty l T I T I . t ' ' '-.Jw uw T I ,u lwl. ur -I i 'xg u - ' ll V 'l u ' ' , V l W , 4 A il V lu ' ul ul l' '. l V ' 4 l :lull 1 uu- u u l A ' g 5 - ,:,,I'.,' I YM I ll ' u :six 'ei l ,lu ,ul , 'r g - q Q r M-- -..:g,gfL1 c ' ' . ' :' . . A - - 4'1 ' 4 'I 'l gg-?:'??::':L:f, 1 cg iii, L lix! We at ut- uf -u-ev ul J' at , ,A If , ,, I ,X , E Af, T A f T. ,W -ful at 'Tuff f T X ' tru, ,uf y A ,.,f 4 . 1 If !, , Q' F:-1-riff :,.,.,,,x ',- .4 ll' - liv' X 341- Ei!- x:?LE.,.L ' A f 'X. M l K'-2 if gr ai l? f 5 XR A V 5 ' l 1- 4' in T ' , d' 5 5 uf fe fvf-f u i l- f 9' - of ff' T u .K ' , ff ,Ac K .eu 1 uw ,T ff su ' ,u igff. N -fifff-,,1IQ- J, , , t , 7 Y, 1.-, . uf, ,T of A A ef- u ll Il I ' ' '. ' : ' I I I .. . . I .

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MEMOIRS 11131127 U. S. HISTORY ln thus age when problems of rlslng prtces labor strikes and the fectmg all our llves It ts essentially Important that the youth should learn txe basis of our economlc sys em In th sc we of the co nom cs class a stud rt ns reportmg on the Stock Market prlces Among t1e actuvlt es planned for the class 1 a vnsut to the Chncago Board of Trade where the actual process of marketmg commodutues may be observed and studied The sub lects of producton prices labor aovernment control are taken up and a firm understandmg of Eco nomncs as gauned whnch wll be of great benefit to the cutlzens of tomorrow ECONOMICS What happened to the teacher? lt seems from tus picture that th stud 'tt have overthrown the monarch and are setttng Lp a de mocratuc system of schoolnng But such IS not the case The students seated at th desk are merely conducting a panel discussion an orderly tashuon and wth the help of maps and charts are expound Ing some of thelr wnsdom on the sublect ct American Hlstory A better understandmg of our nation 1 dernved from thus course be n... Thirty nme if : . . I Q 'ij te el 5 r I . . I - ' Q . I E ' 7 11 - y t h . . . ,, ,Ami , .S . . g , I K, A-5--,V W .. . I I A s.-,-.. value lless lot the dollar are af- U,M,,tm,,,-.W I A A t . fs e. . E - . f - , e . ' ' ' . I . . Q, , . . . . z , f .3 . . . I I i ' 1 , ' , , ' if I l . ' I a n n q . rx? I Q , V X ' . . gxx X

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MEMOIRS 17131721 HEBREW CLASS, Habla usted espanol mu am: 90? lf you cannot well you will In a short pernod of tame The Aca demy sometnmes called a meltung pot for students wuth so many of them from other countrnes as e ceuveng some notsce for the lm gutsts wnthln :ts walls In the plc ture shown here of the Spanish Class two of the Panamanian students are exhubntnng a kerchnet wnth Spamsh and English wrttmgs on ut Students are often found converslng wuth each other ln their native tongue SPANISH CLASS Partucular emphasus as guven to the study of the Hebrew language nn the Academy Not only s t used as a language of unstructuon nn the mornmg classes but because of nts Importance nt us a requured sublect of all Hugh School stu dents for four years The scene m thas pncture us of the hnghest Heb rew classes The courses offered Include the study of Hebrew lute rature and grammar the teaching of Jewush Hnstory and mstructuon nn the abulnty to read wnte and converse nn the modern Hebrew as used an Israel Hebrew news paper and periodicals are also read and dlscussed In class Forty one . I I 1 1 1 1 1 ,, . . I - 11 1 1 1 1 1 f ' 1 1