Culpeper County High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Culpeper, VA)

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Courses Train Students for Careers Xo Carnegie credits for graduation are given for subjects taken in the eighth grade, al- though the eighth grade pupils take, on their level, the basic subjects required in the last four years of high school — mathematics, Eng- lish, United States history, science and physi- cal education. Each eighth grader must also take twelve-week exploratory courses in gen- eral business, music, home economics (for girls), and agriculture (for boys). A year of beginning band may be taken in place of the exploratory courses. Completion of the eighth grade is prerequisite to pursuing any one of the three high school courses. •Machixes and ' ocatioxs — C. Goad receives help from .Miss B. Blankenbaker, upper left picture, in Typinj; I class. P. Jenkins, upper right picture, records on the adding machine in Vocational Office Training as R. Lucas types from the sound scriber. VV. Eddins, lozver left picture, re- finishes a gunst(jck as B. Gore makes a table top in agri- cultural shop. C. Deal and W. Utz put the finishing touches on their picture frames in industrial art class. 4 21 )i‘

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Curriculum Offers Other Cultures only to juniors and seniors). In the diversified occupations program stu- dents attend regular classes of the required subjects — English, history, civics, math, and science — and a diversified occupations class in the morning and work in various jobs in the afternoon. Band, an elective open to all students, may be taken all five years with a ] 2 Carnegie unit credit per year for each of the last four years. Physical education, also worth ] 2 Carnegie credit after the eighth grade, is required for the first three years and may be taken the junior and senior year if the student wishes. Projects, Voice Recording Highlight Classes — D. Triplett and T. Rafter, upper left picture, observe United States map in Miss L. Botts’ eighth grade history class. G. Curtis, R. Hawkins, B. Landis, and X. Graves, upper right, exhibit L ' . S. history projects. H. Hitt and B. Payne, loiver left, use card index of library to find the books they need. Spanish student, lo’uter right picture, G. Poulson, center, tests his accent as classmates C. Martin and S. Haught hold mike and work controls of the recording machine. »■( 20 )■•

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t Courses Aid College-Bound Students Finished Products — P. Burke and G. Maxwell, upper and L. Hensley hang the mobiles that they made in art right, test their dishes in home economics class. J. Lake class in the Art Department. A Student chooses his course when he enters the ninth grade; he is expected to pursue the course selected at this time for the remainder of his high school career unless a very good reason necessitates a change. Those students who have an “A” or “B” on all subjects at the end of each six weeks have their efforts recognized by being placed on the honor roll. An important asset to the various classes Blue Prints and Blocks — Hash and C. Settle make scale drawings for Mechanical Drawing class. J. Frazier, E. taught at CHS is the school library containing 4,820 books including four sets of encyclo- pedias and other general reference books in addition to a variety of fiction and non-fiction as well as periodicals. The library collects, catalogs, and circulates printed materials which supplement and support the textbook materials and provide broader and richer ex- periences for students in the various courses. Gore, D. Regan examine blocks used in demonstration in Solid Geometry. { 22