Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Reading parts in a German shit. in languages and history, we GERMAN is the newest language course offered at EHS. We learned to speak and read the language through translating stories and vocabulary study and sentence drills. During the year we participated in a skit and wrote themes in German. A German girl, a member of the class, told us about the people and country, making it more realistic to us. Junior English courses also are built on a diversified pattern: we have our choice of 1 1 [, 1 IS, 11D, 11C, or a general study in English 11. We had a semester ' s study of American literature, correlated with the eleventh year study of American history. For the second semester, we had a choice of study. ENGLISH 1 1 }, for those who wanted a background course in journalism, gave us ex- perience in reading the newspaper, and in writing types of journalistic forms. We learned to see the news- paper as a part of our country ' s living record: democ- racy ' s diary. Disrupting paf p layouts in journalism.

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special interests; while Patience was the lesson most of us learned while taking BOOKKEEPING. We were not allowed to erase so it became very important to think carefully. In beginning the course, we worked for six weeks in our workbook. As the year progressed, we began work- ing on practice sets. These were like the ones used in keeping accounts in actual business. The procedure of simple bookkeeping for a business firm for three months was also studied. Because the knowledge of trig is important in the study of physics, we began our course in ALGEBRA- GEOMETRY with the study of basic trig. We went further into the field of algebra with the study of logarithms, radicals, exponents, the principle of the slide rule, and the field of quadratics. The second semester was spent in the study of solid geometry, learning to visualize the third dimension as we once more began comparing lines, angles, and triangles. We studied the areas and volumes of solids, cubes, cylinders, and pyramids. Bookkeeping students compare notes on practice sets. 4 race ir io can solve the equation first? 25

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gained knowledge and acquired skills. Now who ever would have thought I could tvpe 45 words a minute with no errors? A good many of us felt that way after completing TYPING 1 1 . We started the year learning how to operate the machine successfully. As time went on, we began to concentrate on accuracy and building our speed. We started typing short paragraphs and letters and ended the year by typing three-page letters and themes with- out errors. As we studied U. S. HISTORY, we followed the American struggle step by step for freedom until Ave became the great country which has kept us free and independent for nearly two hundred years. But not all of our time was spent learning of the past. Even week we studied history in the making in the American Obsemer. In panels and group discus- sions, we talked of foreign aid, Sputnik, segregation, modern weapons, defense problems, and many other current issues. Learning a useful skill in personal typing. The once-a-uee k discussion on the American Observer in U.S. history. 27