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

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Algebra, Trig Merge in New Course Overhead Projection — Mrs. Malcolm Mitchell uses the new projector to emphasize principles in Math 8 class. To provide the intermediate step between contemporary geometry and honors mathe- matics, the department added trig-algebra. College-level trigonometry composed the first semester’s work. Pupils studied inverse functions, identities, and triangular measure- ment. The second term was a composite course. Instructor Mrs. Walter Palmer and math professors of the University of Virginia discussed the areas in which college freshmen have most difficulty. By combining their suggestions and information from several advanced algebra texts, she presented a note study of complex numbers and graphs. New algebra and trigonometry books helped change the emphasis of classes from contempo- rary to modern approach to mathematics. Through aid of the National Defense Educa- tion Act the department purchased an over- head projector to improve classroom compre- hension. With help of the machine, teachers could face class while completing problems or examples on a transparency. The work would immediately appear on front board behind instructor’s back for pupils’ inspection. General fund financed two sets of compasses and meter sticks for students’ use during the various class periods. Complexities of Cosine X — Ann Reaugh copies an intricate trig-algebra problem on the board for class inspection and discussion. Latest Equipment — Charles Seale and Charles Parker work with math department’s new compasses and rulers. 19

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Class Assembles New Experiment Kits Silicon Slab for Solar Cell — Honors science students Ernest Logemann and Shirley Xorris, right, direct Robert Armstrong as he grinds a sliver of silicon. Three Bottles are Enough — Michael Viar and Waugh Crigler collect oxygen for experimentation purposes during chemistry lab. Supplementing the three weeks’ study of advanced physics were the new Bell Telephone experiment kits for honors science class. Sep- arated into three levels of difficulty, these projects explored fields of oscillator construc- tion, silicon solar cell development, and build- ing a synthetic speech apparatus. 18

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Travels of Aeneas — Virgil students, Collier Cropp and while John Davies and Phyllis Cothran trace the wander- joy White, right, play the new album of The Aeneid, ings on a classical map of Mediterranean area. Language Pupils Use Vocalette, Records The language department with aid from the National Defense Education Act acquired new educational equipment. The $1,300 vocalette for Spanish classes consisted of a teacher’s Spanish III — Robert Tipton, adjusting his headset, Mary Robson, and Sarah Witten await the flick of switch on vocalette control panel at the start of another oral exercise. master panel and twelve individual headsets, each with its own microphone, volume control, and built-in amplifier. Each pupil could hear and correct his own answers to tape drills as he spoke. With the switches on the control panel the teacher could tune in any student during an exercise. Classical students used records narrating the campaigns of Caesar and travels of Aeneas in English and in Latin to supplement their studies. Housed in new quarters, the Spanish sector added an advanced third-year class. Concen- trating on conversation and comprehension, the course included vocalette tape work, grammar instruction, aural understanding, and translation of Spanish stories from Reader ' s Digest and other magazines. The new class’s classical counterpart, Latin IV (poetry), included detailed study of myth- ology and the important figures of the Augustan Age. Intensive examination of construction, scansion, and vocabulary com- plemented the translation of The Aeneid. Each member of the class had to develop a term paper concerning some facet of the epic; studies of the travels, religious faith, animals, plants, and place names composed the list of projects. 20