Churchill Junior High School - Flashback Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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English Is Our Language During 1961-1962 we students similar to Johnny Junior High depicted in the main display case and in the window of a downtown store during National Education Week, made up thirty-one English classes. With our varying backgrounds, attitudes, and abilities, we ware directed toward certain skills and val- ues which are essential in our modern society, necessary in our lives at the present, and vital for our future. DiKUSSIOI Keeping in mind that English is our language, that it keeps changing, that it is controlled by the people who speak it, and that its effective use is essential to individual and world understanding, we try to continue to improve our skills of cdmmunication. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening receive careful consideration in everything we attempt to do. Careful studies, by counselors and English teachers, of our test results, our achievement, and our reading skills place us in classes best suited to our needs. Some of our classes place special emphasis on basic reading skills needed by individual students in these classes. Extensive reading, within classes and outside, is directed toward better understanding of ourselves, others, and of our way of life. We read for greater appreciation, an improved sense of values, more ex- tensive vocabularies, better reading skills, and increased enjoyment. Our library offers us a c 06 55 to extensive reading materials. We visit the library with our English class every two weeks; here we have the help of our librarian, Miss Grady, and our En glish teacher to help us with our needs and problems. We learn how to use a library and spend time there doing reference work and becoming more proficient library users.

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Available to us are thirty-five dif- ferent magazines, two newspapers, and approximately seven thousand books, along with many general and specialized reference materials. During 1961-1962, we have check- ed out from eleven to twelve hundred books per week. We have also read a great many books from Galesburg Public Library and from our home libraries. precise through better presentation of ideas, vocabulary. Writing starts with ideas, many of which we get from reading, listening to others. and thinking about things alone or with our classmates. We learn that writing is hard work, and we gain satisfaction from improving our expression to make it more meaningful, mechanically sound. discriminating, and improved units of expression, organization, and improved