Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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ekcfiued give riae fo incliuiolua! exlareddion Intimate theatre atmosphere prevailed for both audience and performer in the one-act play festival presented by Cody's drama classes. With simple props and everyday costumes, amateur thespians enacted numerous performances The ability to debate with ease and poise is one of the educational values that are derived from speech classes. for English classes who were invited to attend. In The T welve-Pound Look, one of these plays, a wealthy English- man finds himself in many personal tragic situations as he lets position and wealth go to his head. Fifteen

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1 l V 1 x In the yearbook journalism class, instructor Melvyn Smith showed students how to judge good layout and design and to recognize excellent photographic journalism. ENGLISH TEACHERS fcontinuedj . . . Top Row: H. Goldstein, F. McMullen, W. Mouser fspeech correc- tionj. Bottom Row: W. Northcott fdepartment headj, E. Sloan, M. M. Smith. Fourteen Selecting, cutting, and pasting newspaper articles and leads in their scrapbooks illustrated to Composition Q11 students the principles of good newspaper journalism. Cody classes in speech, drama, and journalism gave students an opportunity to discover and develop an idea and express it individually. Putting their time and talents to use in many mediums of self-expression, they found these English electives interesting as well as educational. A course in speech introduced students to the qualities of a good speaker. Informal debates, lengthy discussions, and formal speeches helped each develop the poise, con- fidence, and voice techniques for speaking to an audience. Drama classes practiced speaking with feeling, tone variation, and good diction which helped student speakers make their talks interesting and entertaining as well as informative. Advance classes in journalism acquainted students with newspaper and feature writing as they worked on the STAR and COMET Staffs every day. Here they learned team work along with self-expression and all enjoyed the many aspects of publishing a newspaper or a yearbook.

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Sixteen 1 4 5 fiocia sciences CIQUQIOIQ afuolenfa, cifizena ila Good driving fundamentals are one of the first things drivers training classes learn. Students expertly practiced these fundamentals last spring and brought Cody the city championship for safe driving. Keeping abreast of modern social problems, social studies classes used textbook fundamentals in history and government as a basis for a rock- eting interest in world affairs. Courses in American history and civics put the principles of our democratic heritage to use in the study of the present day educational and political situation. World history students used foreign problems of the past to review similar problems the world faces today. And economic classes developed a keener sense of monetary values as they charted the course of recessional problems in our nation's economic crisis. Tomorrow's citizens must be careful drivers too. And drivers training students used the prob- lem of careless, unalert, or drunk drivers to learn and practice safe driving.