Earlville High School - Raidorian Our Years Yearbook (Earlville, IL)

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Mrs. Mae Duckels English, Spanish By describing the contents of a picture (in Spanish, of course), the Spanish 1 students learn to apply the language to everyday living. Communication Each year the freshman class is required to study Treasure Island and make a notebook about it. Cheri Wright, Jim Johnson, Allen Alexander, and Tom Leonard each submitted an excellent one. Alice Goldman practices analyzing a sentence for her English II class. In a spare moment before school, Craig Carter and Laura Myers study for a Spanish test. 20

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Mr. Bann sips a beakerful of coffee Physics student, Agnes Snell, is studying the specific wave which has been brewed over a Bunsen lengths being emitted by a gaseous element. burner. The Wonders of Our World Mr. James Bann Science Probing the internal organs of the frog, Don Harris learns the location of each intricate part. During the final day of school, chemistry students had a picnic using laboratory equipment to prepare the food. 19

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A few senior girls display their poetry notebooks, complete with elaborate covers depicting nature. A major English project of the junior class is making an illustrated notebook of Canterbury Tales. Through Speech and Writing Showing his Elizabethan theatre to Susie Jones, Ralph Sellers demonstrates its minute moving parts. Each student of E.H.S. is required to take four years of English. Mrs. Duckels teaches two sections each of freshman and sophomore courses which are a combination of rhetoric and literature in the junior year and American literature in the senior year. The only foreign language offered is Spanish, under the instruction of Mrs. Duckels. Grammar is stressed in the first year of study, and literature is considered in the second year. Interest in this department has grown to the extent that there are two sections of Spanish I this year. Mrs. Margaret Johnson English 21