Dekalb High School - Kalibre Yearbook (Dekalb, IL)

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M SA TXIIZ HONIHVNNYCIXXIN MR L G CLARK DR H C Scmumx DR A C QIICKFRMAX Prudent BOARD OF EDUCATION RA.. :ar .. . '. :avr N X , 4 . . . . 9 rf . AI ' ' 'Il' 1 4

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MR R G BLALS Superzntendenl M A Umver-,ny of Illmur- Nurthuestnrn Unnerslty, Secretary Board of lfduc.-muon Cornell University, University of Chicano, Earlh-am Qolleyzv, A. 11.5 Indiana Universihty,

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And the enlure ohne! of e duealmn rs lo n people no! merelu DO the rzghl thmqs bul INJOX th rzqht Ihmqs These words of Rus k1n state one of the major objectlves of the Engllsh courses IH the DeKalb Hrgh School to develop the deslre on the part of the student to read good lxterature Taste must have as 1ts background a knowl edge of what IS good and why rt IS good The cultlvatlon of thls background IS the goal ln the teachmg of the hlstory of Englrsh and of Amerlcan literature and rn the study of the types of lnterary work The student 19 urged WW CLWWM5 to read books vs hlch exercrse hrs mmd just as MRS DAX X the athlete goes through a course of tralmng vshrch QXQICISQS hrs muscles Engllsh courses arm to tram the student 1n correct h3blfS of oral and wrrtten composl tlon and to enable hlm to meet wlth some de gree of porse the ordx nary sltuatlons of busl ness and soclal llfe In the tirst two years grammar and composl t1on are stressed m the last two apprecxatlon IS the mam Obj2CI1VC Fl he freshman Englrsh course alms to teach the fundamentals f correct Enghsh Sen tence structure IS taught by dxagram rn the hope that every student may have a mental prcture of each sentence he uses rn speakmg or ln wrrtmg If the student can v1su ahze the sentence many of the old bug bears such as who and whom w1ll cease to be enemres Miss MARK Mlssl AMPION 1 welue ENGLISH If a student knows why he should say between you and me We ex pected the man to b hzm E v e r y o n e should brmg hzs book and other expressrons commonly mxsused rt IS hoped that he w1ll make a consclous effort to speak correctly The composrtron arms to bring about clearer and more loglcal thmk 1ng correct and more NI S SOHNER formrdable expression Partlcular emphasls falls on the sentence and on the elaboratlon of the paragraph Attentlon IS gxven to the handlmg of problems of frxendly and busmess correspondence The course IS arranged so that lf nt IS neces sary that the student take a second or thlrd semester ln order to do satrsfactory work he doesnt have to repeat that whxch h already knows hence there IS not the feelrng of fallure that endless going over the same materral brrngs Three years of Eng IS are requlred fourth Amerlcan lrterature electlve Mrss Gladys Mark Mrss Dorothy Bordwell Mrss Ellendor Lampton and Mrss Jeann Sohner teach freshman and sophomore E n g l 1 s h Mlss Charlotte Cum mlngs Mlss Ellendor Lampton and M L C Colvln teach jumor English Mrs Harrlet Davy teaches semor Englrsh Text books used are Hermans Studles Grammar and Tressler s Engllsh ln Actron Clas s1cs studred are Ivan oe Sllas Marner Slr Roger de Coverley Papers Merchant of Venlce Jullus Caes ar Macbeth Ham let and Tale of Two CIUES MISS BORDWI- Ll MR COLVIN tru' e ' x wk: , A- 'A ' .H H ' 1,1 ' V, - ' T T ' vv 4 A S. 7' - ' ' 17 I . f s 3 1 1 . . ' . ' ' .Sf ll r . . . V I . , . . , . 1 , ' U x . . j I l . . r I , . . y x . . . X 1 L . .. . . 1 , , Y X ' ' ' , n a x ' A x . . ' L s . . . ' D X 3 . . . ' V Y . 1 J - s s y , Y . . , r K I .. , .. , , , , , . I'. . Y V - - .l b H .l - H v e p I V 7 , - fl AA , - ,Y .1 . Y Y - H l. H l. V Y 4 ' ., el ' v ' ' H - - n