Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Learning To budgeT and buy. ,Y Q0 fr, 1 I' 1 C 'l! The floors are open for sophomores. Sophomores, as beginners in high school, geT a TasTe of many oT The subiecTs ThaT will Talce on greaTer significance laTer. The pracTical aspecTs oT maThemaTics are emphasized in maTh 10-G. This course gives a sTudenT a compleTe review oT The principles oT ariThmeTic, as well as inTroducing simple algebra and geomeTry. ATTer The principles of maTh are undersTood, pracTical problems in The carpenTering and building, power, meTal, and elecTrical Trades are worked. AnoTher ma+h course Tor sophomores, geomeTry, inTro- duces someThing very TundamenTal-The cause and resulT Type oT Thinking. AT TirsT, a large amounT oT Time is spenT on Tormal proof involving The relaTionship and measuremenT oT lines, angles, areas and congruenT, equivalenT, and similar Tigures. GeomeTry is The ToundaTion oT all professions depending upon measuremenT and Tormp such as, engineer- ing, archiTecTure, draTTing, or conTracTing. Learning by experience is The common pracTice in The biology classes. TransTormaTion inTo The realm of The minuTe becomes an exciTing personal experience Through The Tacili- Ties oT The sTudenT's microscope. He is also able To grow and waTch The conTrolled specimens oT mold, bacTeria, and Tungus, which are lcepT in The lab's careTully-regulaTed in- cubaTors. BudgeT problems are solved in consumer educaTion. FacTs abouT goods and services ThaT are discovered in This course develop good TasTe and sound iudgmenT in money budgeTing, saving, invesTing, and buying. 19

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'Z An up-fo-dale mefhod of learning French-using fhe lape recorder. .FEYM Anolher modern class-music apprecialion-lisfening fo classical records. K-V U Q tx 31' 'F f f c X l f The floors are open for Sopllomores. Languages, including English, play a role of imporlance in +he life of a sophomore. Cul+ural subiecrs, such as rhese, poini' +he way +o informed adulrhood. One +hing all sophomores have in common is English, everybody +alces rhe same course, in cycles. Usually rhere are commen+s of surprise when English furns ou+ +o be no+ only English grammar, bu+ divisions of speech, li+era+ure, and grammar, which srudenfs s'l'udy al+erna+ely. lci, on parle francais. Nof only do s+udenl's in French classes speak French, bul' 'rhey also learn fhe cusroms of +he French, and gain a beH'er undersfanding of people in o+her counfries. Music becomes more meaningful +o sfudenfs in music apprecialion by s+udying fhe composers, by crirical lisfening +o records, and by demonsfrafions of differenr musical sounds and rechniques. Sludy of +he ancienf and modern cul+ures of fhe world helps s+uden+s undersrand +he cullure of which lhey are a par'l'. Our underslanding of our own place in 'rhe world is based on our sludy of hisfory. The 'lrends hislory has 'lalcen in fhe pasi' predici' rhings +o come. Currenl' evenrs are also sludied +hrough +he use of a weekly newspaper. Mr. Maier-world hisfory. 21