Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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4. Students learn how to express themselves in composition classes through various inpromptu essay assignments. A world history report takes on current 'sig- nificance when specific points are identified on a globe. Journalism students may put their talents to work at Cody as members of the COMET and STAR staffs. COMET staffers created a spectacular display of their past productions to stimulate sale of our yearbook during the fall campaign. Mr. Bernard McClellan from the Detroit Edison Com- pany helped Dr. Bernstein and Cody students prepare a display on the use of mathematics in computing electrical power consumption. Ninety-nine

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Mr. Sloan discussed teclzniques to be used in presenting a round table review of issues in a public speaking class. Enthusiastic preparation by history students paid off for Cody's TV current events battle with Redford in the Detroit News Quiz 'Em on the Air. Television has an educational value too, Cody students discovered. For the first time TV teachers assisted regular classroom instructors in an experimental teaching program for American literature and world history classes. Ninety-eight

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Interplanetary sputniks 'were launched by Codys art students who worked diligently at their own designs to achieve out-of-this world effects for our Winter Festival ine arfri curricu um eue 0,05 fa enfa l In the creative world of fine arts, stu- dents learned to use their own ingenuity and imagination to interpret artistic en- deavors. Impressionistic techniques i n t r o- duced to amateur artists the idea of paint- ing their impressions of a subject, using intcrpretative rendering on canvas rather than an exact likeness. With infinite care the art of blending water colors or oils and sketching the characterizing lines of portraits was mastered. Student craftsmen learned to develop their creative ideas through designing original patterns and unique designs for jewelry, weaving, and sculpture products. Musical varieties selected from the compositions of the music-masters of the age offered young vocalists and instru- mentalists an oportunity to develop their musical talents and background. Through class instruction they mastered the in- tricacy of playing musical instruments in concert with others and of harmonizing popular melodies in parts. One hundred