Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Math and Science Departments MATHEMATICS The newest course offered in the Mathematics Department is Social Mathematics, a type of Matliematics which students will use in everyday living: insurance, car installments, rates of interest, bank accounts, and all types of arithmetic used in social situations. This and General Mathe- matics are for students in the G courses; algebra and trigonometry are studied only by A students. Mrt. Zella Lee Boone. Jlr. Glenn H. Updike, Miss Kattiryn Jaivis, Mr. Lester Kerr. Miss Evs lyn Wa one Mr. Virjril L. Liken-. Mr. Norval Adams. Miss Esther Bandow, Mr. Glenn Updike.

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Mr. Ben Hudelson. Dramatics. English : Mr. Dean B. Smith. Speech. English. Bible : Miss Louise Biische. English : Miss Dorothy Kelly. Writing Lab. ; Mrs. . delaide Earhart. English ; Miss Gertrude Clendenen. English ; Miss Minnie Snure, English : Mr. J. F. Wiley. English. - ' •f English Department Witli an increased ciiniculiun wliich now includes sixteen courses, the fc nglish Depart- ment is making every effort to adapt its work to the needs of all students. College Preparatory people are now placed in special writing classes, the Writing Labora- torybeing a new course this year. In this course special emphasis is placed on all forms of com- position, and as far as possible the content of work and assignments is that used in other subjects. Also new is the emphasis now placed on speech. In the tenth year first semester, oral English has replaced the study of formal gram- mar. Special equipment: a recorder, loud- speaker, and play-back system has been in- stalled in Mr. Smith ' s room to facilitate the speech work. The English Department purchased a set of Orson W elles Jiilhis Caesar records tu be used in English 4. since the play is now studied in that year. They ha e also begun a departmental record of notes, plans, outlines and all such material for each course offered. This material is being t) ped by the Commercial Department and filed in duplicate notebooks. Throughout the entire semester greater dif- ferentiation between the A. and G. courses has been the purpose of all the members of the department. Page Nineteen

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The Mathematics Department rooms are now grouped on third floor, which is more convenient and unified for the work of the department. Increased attendance in trigonometry and algebra 4 indicate that this is proving a valuable basis for boys who plan to take engineering. These boys graduate with four years of mathematics and many of them are filling engineering positions now without college work. SCIENCE The Biology Department is organized so that individual work is ex- pected in accordance with interests and capacities. Each student may pursue his or her individual interests to a final conclusion in that area of learning. The activities are numerous as suggested in the manual which was written by Miss Bandow and Mr. Adams. The biology department stresses individual field trips and each student provides most of the labora- tory materials such as algae, bacteria, leaves, roots, flowers, fish, ferns, molds, earthworms and frogs. Credit is given on all activities which seem worthy. Last summer a class of biology was held during the forepart of the summer which proved to be a very interesting project on the part of the students as the summer time seems the best time for biology work. Photography plays an important pari in biology as we try to interpret the environment to the student. Good pictures are an asset to the depart- ment. Several students have been working at photographic projects, such as outdoor and photo-micrography. The aspirations of the department center on the development of an outdoor laboratory. The outdoor laboratory idea was started last year and has been continued witli hope of making it the second such project in the state. Biology is the study of living things and their relationship to the environment and a laboratory in a building is far from natural. The outdoor laboratory offers many possibilities for practical observations to biology students. Our aim is to offer the best biological facilities that can be arranged for the boys and girls of Elkhart. Languages Ancient and Modern In the language department pupils are busy learning to read and understand a foreign tongue. Stories of mytho- logical content are read by the second year Latin classes during the first semester. Some collateral reading in English is done and special reports are given. In the second semester Caesar ' s Gallic Wars are fought and projects are centered on arms and equipment. Historical fiction is read and reviews are given to the classes. In the Vergil class emphasis is placed on reading as much of the Aencid as possible. There is scanning to do. historical novels and plays to read, projects to work on. and classical references and allusions in English poetry to observe and collect. The French classes are reading plays and novels along with their struggle to master irregular verbs. The pupils taking Spanish have traveled in their reading to Spain and Mexico and the fifteen Spanish speaking coun- tries in South America. They are learning something of the legends, traditions, customs and history of our good neigh- bors to the South. Supplementary reading of Spanish stories is required. The foreign language department has five clubs: a Latin Club for those pupils who have had two years of Latin: a Mythology Club for the second year pupils; a French Clid): a Spanish Club for beginning pupils, and another fur ad- vanced pupils. Mrs. Francis Avery. Latin and English : Miss Gladys King, Spanish and French ; Miss Merle Cunningham, French and English ; Miss Marguerite Sawyer. Latin.