E J Cooper High School - Talons Yearbook (New Hope, MN)

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Miss Judith Lutterman Mrs. Carol Moore Miss Carol Peterson Juniors Study Growth Of American Literature Mrs. Bonita Sandvick Mr. Albert Shajj The development of American literature, from the Colonial writers to present-day authors, was the subject of junior English classes. To encourage student interest, many special activities were planned. During the drama unit students enacted John Doe, a closet play, before their large group classes. Speakers obtained through the Brave New Workshop, a Minneapolis satirical coffeehouse, spoke to classes about the dramatic arts. As a result of a federal grant, more than eight hundred juniors and seniors were enabled to attend a special student matinee of Harpers Ferry at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in October. Students also produced an inter-school television program concerning the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder.

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English X Studies Greek Classics, Mythology Mr. Patrick Pillig Mr. David Cade Through the study of Greek mythology, classics, and arts, sophomore English students acquired an awareness of the impact of the Greeks in world literature that they studied. Operating on the premise that given enough time students will read many hooks, the sophomores were engaged in an intensive reading program. During their free time students read hooks of all types and levels. A new unit on comic structure was introduced at the beginning of the year. Questions such as “What is language?” were explored in the unit on communications, in which students became aware of the value of words and why they arc necessary for life in dialectic regions of the United States. Mr. Richard DcCuise Mrs. Dorothy Dryseih Mr. Leo Dvorak To complete her assignment on the manners and customs of the Anglo-Saxons, Helen Lanncrs uses the special bibliography located in the English resource center. 25

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Dramatizing from The Scarlet Letter, Mr. Cade as John Wilson, Mr. Swenson as Arthur Dimmesdale, and Mrs. Dryseth as Hester, enact the final scaffold scene. Seniors Explore Literary Classics Of England English literature, from the Dark Ages until the twentieth century, was the year-long topic of senior English. Special large group presentations aided understanding of each period of literature studied. A trip to the Academy Theater to see The Taming of the Shrew was a highlight of the unit on Elizabethan literature. Developing parallels b e t w c e n eighteenth and twentieth century coffeehouses was achieved through student skits. Later, the conflict between science and religion was debated by Mr. James Treincn, physics teacher, and a local clergyman for the Victorian unit. In connection with the play JB, Mr. Marvin Trautwein, American history teacher, delivered a lecture on existentialism. Mr. Eugene Sullivan 27 Swenson Mr. Frederick Thumhart Mrs. Frances Zabel